Our series about Montana's bail bonds industry continues right now with a story NBC Montana’s Kylie Gibson has been investigating for weeks.Gibson is working fo
miserable, that s what i was avoiding and now you guys created this enormous, unnecessary attention to this, something that historically nobody really cares about, my whole thing around keeping the sureties secret was for their safety. reporter: well, you know, santos makes an argument here about his family members safety but neglects to point out that his financial history and where he gets his money from is a big part of the controversy that surrounds him. it s also a big part of the basis of the indictments that he s facing, the possible future indictments that could come down the road, so the idea of who would be behind the financing of keeping him out of jail is of great interest to the public, and chris, we should also point out today, perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not, the ethics committee released a statement saying that they are still very much investigating the accusations against him, they have issued dozens of subpoenas and have conducted
santos just moments ago and asked him why keeping the identities of the people secret was so important. take a listen. mr. santos, doesn t the public deserve to know who paid for your bail? why won t you tell your constituents who paid $500,000 to keep you out of prison? can you tell us about the $500,000? i am not commenting on it. why is it so important to protect their identities? because it is. reporter: santos attorney has also informed the judge santos would rather surrender to pretrial detainment than subject the sureties to the attention they would receive from their names becoming public. certainly there is a process here and ultimately we may learn their identities. this is a request made by the media. what will you and others be looking for if records are made public? reporter: the first thing we ll get are the identities of these people, the individuals who are willing to put their money at stake and their