Gavin Seim, the Nevada trial is a mistrial
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Gavin Seim, the Nevada trial is a mistrial
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Review-Journal fails to report that one defendant is an FBI informant. Maybe he didn't feel it is significant that the prosecution is now privy to all the defense teams strategy.
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Lawyer says FBI agents posed as film crew in Bunkerville standoff investigation
FBI agents posed as a documentary film crew to gather evidence during their investigation into the April 2014 standoff near the Bundy family ranch in Bunkerville, a defense lawyer disclosed in court papers Friday.
Attorney Chris Rasmussen said undercover agents conducted video interviews of several defendants to “extract admissions” from them before they were charged.
He identified the company as Longbow Productions, which does not appear in online Nevada licensing records.
Attorney Dan Hill, who is defending Ammon Bundy, said his client was interviewed for several hours in Phoenix by Longbow Productions months before he was charged in the Bunkerville standoff with his father, Cliven Bundy, and other defendants.
“I believe that the FBI was pretending to be members of the news media in order to have lengthy conversations with Ammon and others,” Hill said. “Ammon has nothing to hide, but I still find it troublesome that the FBI would sink to that tactic.”
Another defense lawyer, Jess Marchese, said his client Eric Parker gave the company a 90-minute interview in Idaho, where he lives.
“From everything that I’ve seen, it’s my belief that Longbow Productions was the FBI,” Marchese said. “I know that there were interviews with some of the other defendants. It was definitely unique, but I don’t think it’s overly harmful to my client because his recitation of the facts has always been the same.”
Parker posted on Facebook in August 2014 that a member of Longbow Productions told him the company was making a documentary about the standoff and wanted his opinion about it.
“I was told that the Bundys were working with them and have given interviews for it,” Parker said in the post. “If I could have that confirmed, I would feel better about talking to them.”
Natalie Collins, a spokeswoman for the Nevada U.S. attorney’s office, would not comment Friday on Longbow Productions.
“We cannot comment on pending litigation,” she said.
FBI spokesman Huston Pullen also declined to comment.
The revelation came in court papers Rasmussen filed seeking to narrow a protective order that vastly restricts public disclosure of evidence in the high-profile case.
Rasmussen, who represents radio talk show host Peter Santilli, said he and other defense lawyers want to cite government evidence about Longbow Productions and other activity by federal agents during the standoff investigation in public motions challenging the government’s case.
Other government evidence expected to be the subject of defense motions includes Nevada Highway Patrol dashcam videos showing the standoff scene, bodycam videos from Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents capturing the events leading up to the protests, and aerial surveillance of the Bunkerville area conducted by federal agents, according to Rasmussen’s court papers.
A total of 19 defendants were charged in March with conspiring to assault BLM agents on April 12, 2014, and take back the impounded Bundy cattle that had been grazing on federal land. Two later pleaded guilty, and the rest are to stand trial Feb. 6 before Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro.
In his court papers, Rasmussen said defense lawyers should be able to remove personal identifiers from government documents and then file them publicly with their upcoming motions.
“Counsel should be allowed to make professional judgments and redact the personal information of any person outlined in police or FBI reports like counsel in this district has done in every case prior to this one,” he said.
Attorney Maggie McLetchie — who represents the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Battle Born Media and The Associated Press — has lodged objections in court papers to the protective order, calling it too broad and a blow to transparency.
Because of concerns about threats to witnesses and law enforcement officers, the order prohibits defense teams for all 17 defendants from publicly disclosing grand jury transcripts, FBI and police reports, witness statements and other documents the government collected during its two-year investigation.
McLetchie on Friday hailed Rasmussen’s bid to narrow the scope of the order, which was signed earlier this year by U.S. Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen.
“In short, the protective order in place is excessively broad,” she said. “It cloaks information that the public has a right to know about in total secrecy.”
McLetchie said there are First Amendment concerns and questions about the actions of law enforcement in the case.
“The public has a right to assess for itself whether the government engaged in problematic law enforcement practices and whether this prosecution is retaliation for criticizing the government,” she said. “The courts belong to the people, and law enforcement works for the people, too.”
Contact Jeff German at jgerman@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-8135. Follow @JGermanRJ on Twitter.
Carol Bundy shares with the Nevada Appeal
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Bundy family holding their own
March 21, 2017
"I've got 25 grandbabies who won't see their daddies tonight, or any other night for a long time. My husband won't be home for a long time either. Other than that, I'm fine."
That was Carol Bundy's answer to my question of how she was doing.
A friend and I were having lunch with Carol in the Las Vegas Federal Courthouse. We had driven down, me from Fallon and he from Sparks, to see for ourselves some of the trial of supporters who came to the Bundy ranch in April of 2014 during an invasion of federal agents.
A total of 17 defendants have been divided into three groups and include Cliven Bundy and four of his and Carol's sons. Carol said the Bundys will probably be tried last and it may be a year before that is done.
"They're dragging it out," she said. "It's part of their plan — wear us down."
At the session we watched, an FBI agent from Montana was on the stand answering prosecution questions about emails between defendants that the feds had acquired. The emails were between men in various parts of the country and mostly discussed going to Bunkerville to support the Bundys. The prosecution appeared to be taking an excessive amount of time to prove their point … that there was a conspiracy.
It all started with armed federal agents, mostly from the BLM, and contract cowboys raiding the Bundy ranch near Bunkerville to take Bundy cattle in retribution for Cliven not paying his grazing fees.
Carol said they had "fired" the BLM several years ago because it was not holding up its part of the deal for their grazing rights. She said they didn't need the BLM's rights anyway because they had water rights from the state of Nevada and that included forage and rights of way to the water.
The roundup was a mess, she said, with federal agents running roughshod over the protesters and roughly handling the cattle.
"They threw my husband's sister to the ground and they tasered one of my sons," she said.
She also said they stressed the cattle with helicopters to the point that many of them died and they even killed several by shooting them from the helicopters.
"We still haven't found all the mass graves they buried carcasses in."
Speaking of water rights, Carol said the damage inflicted by the raiders included ripping up pipes Cliven and their sons had installed to move water and even destroying a large water storage tank.
"I don't know why they would do that unless it was to drive us out," she said.
Federal agents and agencies have been successful in closing down some 50 ranches in southern Nevada in the past 40 or so years, Carol pointed out, through intimidation, onerous regulations like the use of the Endangered Species Act, or buying them out.
"We're the last ones standing and they want us gone," she said.
I asked her how a family holds up under such harsh treatment.
"We are from strong stock," she said. "My relatives came here on the Mayflower to escape persecution. Being LDS we have known persecution of some sort ever since. We don't give up easily."
I asked her how this sort of heavy-handed activity by federal agencies could be stopped and she said, "The people have to be informed. They hear so little about things like this."
Would she be willing to come to Fallon to tell her story? I asked.
"Maybe," she replied. "Maybe after these trials are over."
Jim Falk is a Fallon resident and secretary of the Fallon Tea Party
More on Greg Burelson. How deep is the corruption? The govt. did not intentionally they had planted a snitch in with the defendants.
Bunkerville Defendant is FBI Informant
IF THIS CASE DOES NOT GET THROWN OUT, IT WILL INDICATE JUST HOW DEEP THIS CORRUPTION GOES.
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Bunkerville Defendant is FBI Informant
by Shari Dovale
The Nevada Bunkerville Protest Trial heated up today when it was unintentionally disclosed that defendant Greg Burleson has been a paid informant for the FBI since 2012.
The prosecution called FBI Agent Michael Caputo and FBI Agent Adam Nixon to the stand and, in an unusual move, the court instructed the jury that this testimony would be used only in reference to Defendant Burleson.
The prosecution attempted to be careful of how they questioned the witnesses, however, they did ask a few questions that raised eyebrows. The only defense attorney that was allowed to cross examine the agents was Burleson’s attorney, Terrence Jackson .
Jackson gave every impression that he was not aware of his client’s true status. He questioned the witnesses until they made the admissions. Over multiple government objections, and amid several small conferences with the other defense attorneys, Jackson continued to hammer at the agents with questions until they admitted to Burleson’s status as a Federal Informant.
Burleson has worked with the FBI on other cases prior to the Bunkerville Protest. Towards the end of 2015 Burleson initiated contact with the FBI. It is believed that this was the time that the scheme to plant Burleson in the prison was hatched.
Burleson has been kept apart from the other prisoners, it was said, due to medical problems. It has been reported that he has gone blind, is in a wheelchair and suffers from Diabetes. Complaints of lack of medical care have been made throughout the time of his incarceration.
Burleson was not taken from the courtroom after the shocking announcements, and no motions were requested for a mistrial. Though, this seems to be a likely case to be declared a mistrial.
As one of the defendants, Burleson had access to all pretrial conferences and defense discussions. All investigations and other evidence would have been completely available to him, and therefore, to the FBI and prosecution, as well.
What will the government do next? If this case does not get thrown out, it will indicate just how deep this corruption goes.
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Anyone who dares stand up for liberty must realize that everyone is suspect. Everyone you "know" or think you know is a suspected Federal agent or asset. The media is never your friend, even if they aren't de jure Federal assets. Only issue carefully-prepared public statements. Always practice maximized operational security. You are playing for keeps, with your liberty and/or your life at stake. And no, "We the People" can't overcome their System via the means they permit.
Andrea Olson-Parker with John Lamb March 23 mid-day update Todd Engal will no longer be able to represent himself after he mentioned Dan Love is under criminal investigation
http://youtu.be/R6ZuuNJVjnQ
https://youtu.be/R6ZuuNJVjnQ
Andrea Olson-Parker, John Lamb and Brand Thornton End of day March 23 Bundy Ranch trial
http://youtu.be/CT8XoUQPY7s
https://youtu.be/CT8XoUQPY7s
Lisa Bundy with update on Ammon
http://youtu.be/GVaklgJW3H8
https://youtu.be/GVaklgJW3H8
John Lamb give update on Ammon Bundy
http://youtu.be/gQ0HuyO-4xU
https://youtu.be/gQ0HuyO-4xU
Brand Thornton shares his perspective on Thursday's court proceedings
http://youtu.be/u-KWaVRUEHE
https://youtu.be/u-KWaVRUEHE