Yep. He had been beating his wife and she had complained.
No, she only told her family.
I doubt he lied about anything. Beating your wife is not disqualifying unless convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence or subject to a restraining order. No indication of either. Threatened a co worker which could have resulted in charges, but didn’t. Law enforcement didn’t see illegal action on his part, so he wasn’t charged with anything, much less convicted. There are suggestions of a battery charge suspended when he was a minor, but probably not a felony. Background checks are useless against people of questionable character who for whatever reason have never been charged and convicted. There’s nothing to check. Add to that crimes that aren’t reported to the database, and the many states that don’t report involuntary commitments due to medical privacy, and there are a lot of cracks to fall through. Since these cracks are in totality a function of government and medical and law enforcement professionals perhaps not doing their job, the idea that more laws administered by the same people will have an impact is absurd.
Which one? The newest one seems complicit.