Geee Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 American Greatness At this point, perhaps the Justice Department should pray that the judge rules in favor of the defense and dismisses the case before the FBI is further embarrassed—and exposed. The U.S. Department of Justice received an unwelcome Christmas gift from defense attorneys representing five men charged with conspiring to “kidnap” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020: a motion to dismiss the case. The Christmas Day filing is the latest blow to the government’s scandal-ridden prosecution; defense counsel is building a convincing argument that the FBI used undercover agents and informants to entrap their clients in a wide-ranging scheme that resulted in bad press for Donald Trump as early voting was underway in the key swing state last year. What began as random social media chatter to oppose lockdown policies quickly morphed into a dangerous plan to abduct Whitmer as soon as the FBI took over. A Michigan judge delayed the trial, now set for March 8, so defense attorneys could investigate the misconduct of FBI special agents handling at least a dozen government informants involved in the caper. As I reported last week, the lead prosecutor recently informed the judge that three of the FBI’s top agents involved in the case will not take the stand as government witnesses. Richard Trask, the FBI special agent who signed the initial criminal complaint against six men facing federal charges—one man pleaded guilty and is cooperating with authorities—was removed from the case and fired by the FBI after he physically assaulted his wife last summer in a drunken rage following a swingers party at a hotel near their home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Dec. 28 2021 The vlawg that keeps on vlawging. The defendants in the Whitmer alleged kidnapping plot have moved for a dismissal of the indictment. Here's the breakdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted December 30, 2021 Author Share Posted December 30, 2021 Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping: Cracks forming in federal case Problems continue to pile up for federal prosecutors in the lead up to the March 8 trial for the five men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Prosecutors confirmed in mid-December they would not call on three FBI agents closely linked to the investigation due to allegations of personal and professional misconduct. Also in December, a key undercover informant involved in the case was charged with fraud in an unrelated case in Wisconsin. In a pair of explosive filings submitted on Christmas Day and on Wednesday, defense attorneys presented evidence they said proves the FBI and its confidential informants "conceived and controlled every aspect" of the plot to kidnap Whitmer. "These defendants had no desire whatsoever to kidnap anyone," the defense attorneys said in their filing. The defendants, members of the Three Percenters and Wolverine Watchmen anti-government militia groups, would have never plotted to kidnap Whitmer and blow up a bridge near her home had they not been entrapped by overzealous government agents, the defense attorneys argued in the filing. They also asked a federal court to dismiss the case. "The government wouldn't drop the idea, and the CHSs [Confidential Human Sources] continued to broach plans — despite official government admonitions barring the suggestion of such plans," the defense motion read. "The CHSs' handlers pulled the puppet strings the entire time." New evidence in the defense attorneys' filings, which include details of communications between FBI agents and their sources embedded in the militia groups, marks another setback for federal prosecutors. Prosecutors previously rejected allegations the defendants were entrapped by the FBI and maintained they were predisposed to carry out the kidnapping scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted December 31, 2021 Author Share Posted December 31, 2021 The FBI’s Criminal Lead Informant in Whitmer ‘Kidnapping’ Caper The Federal Bureau of Investigation is a morally bankrupt, politically weaponized agency doing the dirty work of the Democratic Party. In June 2020, as the country attempted to recover from deadly and destructive riots after the death of George Floyd, a man from Wisconsin hosted a national conference of self-styled “militia” members in a suburban Columbus, Ohio hotel. Stephen Robeson, founder of the Wisconsin chapter of the Three Percenters, an alleged militia group on the FBI’s naughty list, pestered his contacts across the country to participate in the gathering. People who attended the conference, including two men later charged with federal crimes related to a plot to abduct Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer from her vacation cottage in 2020, observed that the hotel was crawling with federal agents. One of the feds at the conference was none other than Stephen Robeson himself. Without Robeson’s deep involvement as an FBI informant, the Whitmer kidnapping caper never would have made national headlines a few weeks before Election Day; in fact, the whole pre-election drama wouldn’t have materialized at all. A longtime FBI asset, Robeson was one of at least 12 confidential human sources embedded in the failed plot, which concluded when several men were arrested attempting to buy explosives from an undercover FBI agent in October 2020. Defense attorneys are building a convincing case that the FBI entrapped their clients, who stand accused of perpetrating an act of domestic terror; a motion to dismiss the federal kidnapping count was filed on Christmas Day. “[The] evidence here demonstrates egregious overreaching by the government’s agents, and by the informants those agents handled,” five defense attorneys wrote to a Michigan judge on December 25. FBI agents and informants, according to the filing, “concocted, hatched, and pushed this ‘kidnapping plan’ from the beginning, doing so against defendants who explicitly repudiated the plan.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 From the You Never Know What You'll Find File............. Dec. 19 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 I have a question. Will This Case and the FBI's involvement in Jan. 6 "insurrection" have any impact on the numerous domestic Islamic terrorist cases? Thing is many of the convictions came from undercover FIB/Law Enforcement operations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted December 31, 2021 Author Share Posted December 31, 2021 3 hours ago, Valin said: I have a question. Will This Case and the FBI's involvement in Jan. 6 "insurrection" have any impact on the numerous domestic Islamic terrorist cases? Thing is many of the convictions came from undercover FIB/Law Enforcement operations. Good question Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted January 19, 2022 Author Share Posted January 19, 2022 Defense requests immunity for FBI agents, informants in Whitmer kidnapping plot The request follows three lead sting FBI agents who won’t be testifying in the March 8 trial in Grand Rapids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 1 hour ago, Geee said: Defense requests immunity for FBI agents, informants in Whitmer kidnapping plot The request follows three lead sting FBI agents who won’t be testifying in the March 8 trial in Grand Rapids. What A Fluster Cluck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted March 25, 2022 Author Share Posted March 25, 2022 The FBI’s ‘FAFO’ Kidnapping Plot Unravels In the spring of 2020, or so the government’s story goes, an Iraq War veteran named Dan Chappel was scouring social media to find like-minded libertarians devoted to the Second Amendment when algorithms prompted him to a Facebook group called the Wolverine Watchmen, an online “militia group” formed just a few months earlier. Chappel reportedly became alarmed at violent “anti-law enforcement” rhetoric posted by some members of the Watchmen, so he notified police. Two weeks later, Chappel, under the code name “Big Dan,” became the lead FBI informant in a wild plot to “kidnap” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, an act of domestic terror according to the Justice Department. Four of the six men originally charged are now on trial in a Grand Rapids courtroom facing federal conspiracy to kidnap and weapons of mass destruction charges. The other two pleaded guilty and are testifying for the prosecution this week. But defense attorneys argue the FBI entrapped the men by using at least a dozen FBI confidential human sources (commonly described as informants) including Chappel and undercover FBI agents over the course of several months to concoct the plot. During two days of testimony this week, Chappel struggled to maintain the government’s case while revealing what might be the most egregious example of FBI entrapment in decades. Chappel was paid more than $60,000 by the FBI for less than seven months of work; part of his compensation included a $3,300 laptop, a smart watch, and reimbursement for taking a loss after selling his eastern Michigan home that year. And far from acting as a conduit between the alleged militia group and the FBI—the bureau’s alleged raison d’etre for hiring informants—Chappel methodically coalesced a random group of misfits angered by COVID-19 lockdowns and Black Lives Matter riots to form the gang of would-be kidnappers. The burly Iraq War vet—working for the U.S. Postal Service at the time—along with multiple FBI assets, “ingratiated” themselves, one defense attorney said, into the lives of seemingly isolated, destitute men. Some of the defendants referred to Chappel as “dad” as he used his age and military experience to assume a father-like persona. (Kaleb Franks, one of the original defendants who pleaded guilty to kidnapping, told the jury Thursday that he wanted to be killed by police in a shoot-out because “a large portion of my family had died” and he was “struggling financially and just wasn’t happy.”) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted April 8, 2022 Author Share Posted April 8, 2022 2 men acquitted of conspiracy in foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer; jury deadlocks on 2 alleged ringleaders GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- 2 men acquitted of conspiracy in foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer; jury deadlocks on 2 alleged ringleaders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 1 minute ago, Geee said: 2 men acquitted of conspiracy in foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer; jury deadlocks on 2 alleged ringleaders GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- 2 men acquitted of conspiracy in foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer; jury deadlocks on 2 alleged ringleaders. Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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