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National TV show exposes Rich as muscle behind efforts

September 22 — Good, old fashioned investigative journalism is not dead, PBS's investigative show NOW showed tonight. The program exposed Howie Rich from New York City as the financial muscle behind the drive to mislead voters in many states into degrading state government services.

Tonight's NOW program tried to track down the illusive Howie Rich from New York City. While Rich evaded NOW's crew, the influence of the illusive tycoon, 66, was thoroughly exposed in Montana and other states. The show caught local Rich's Montana front man, Trevis Butcher, refusing to say who funded his over $600,000 worth of fraudulent signature gathering efforts. However, a local government watchdog in Helena, Montana, showed NOW emails from Butcher asking that money be sent to him using international financial routing numbers. Montana State Senator Joe Balyeat admitted this week that Rich was the principal financial backer behind Montana's TABOR, takings and anti-judges measures.

Trevis might have explaining to do to Montanans.

LINK: PBS NOW: Show Summary and Video



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