From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

Arkansas state representative Ben
McGee (D-Marion), 54, was indicted on
January 14 for allegedly taking $20,000 from
Southland Racing Corportation and $2,000
from Arkansas Greyhound Association president
Darby Henry and member Carroll Blair to
push bills favoring their interests. McGee was
also charged with allegedly extorting funds
from a suspected drug dealer, and with evading
taxes 1984-1988. Elected to the Arkansas
legislature in 1989, McGee receives just $1
per legislative paycheck because the balance
has been garnisheed in settlement of unpaid
taxes on beer sold by a liquor store he formerly
owned. His total tax debt, said the indictment,
is $511,177. Reported Noel E. Oman
of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, “The
Southland track employed McGee from 1967
to 1977. His wife Rose also worked there,
most recently in 1991. His son Ben Jr. was
employed until recently by the Arkansas
Racing Commission as a judge at the track.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

SAN FRANCISCO––Horse gentling
expert and racehorse trainer Monty
Roberts’ account of being abused by his
policeman father, forming the opening chapter
of his runaway best-selling autobiography
The Man Who Listens to Horses, is fiction,
family and longtime friends asserted in an
expose by Eric Brazil of the San Francisco
Examiner, published on January 11.
They also refuted Roberts’ claim
that he learned his gentling method during a
wild horse round-up done for the California
Rodeo Association in 1948, with his younger
brother Larry and friends Dick Gillott and
Tony Vargas, as well as a claim that he did
the jumping for Elizabeth Taylor as her double
in her first hit film, National Velvet.

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