Category: Whitmer Kidnapping

Judge Tosses Whitmer Kidnapping Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss

January 26, 2022
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The men who say they were ensnared in a government entrapment scheme to kidnap Michigan’s governor will have to prove their case in trial after a federal judge denied their motion to dismiss the charges. U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker made his ruling Jan. 25, setting the stage for defendants Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Kaleb…

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FBI’s Silence on Jan. 6 Used by Whitmer Kidnapping Defendant to Buttress Case for Dismissal

January 17, 2022
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A defendant in the Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping case has moved to introduce evidence related to the use of federal informants in the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riots, arguing that the FBI’s refusal to answer basic questions about such activities demonstrates a “consciousness of guilt” on the part of the government. The Jan. 14 motion…

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FBI Informant in Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Was a ‘Double Agent’: Prosecutors

January 7, 2022
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Responding to arguments from defendants in the Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping case that they were entrapped by the FBI, the Department of Justice has said that one of its undercover informants was, in fact, a “double agent” working with the kidnappers against the government. The DOJ’s revelation came Jan. 6 in a response to a motion…

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FBI Fires Lead Agent in Whitmer Kidnapping Case

September 14, 2021
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The FBI agent credited with foiling Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s kidnapping plot no longer works for the agency after he was charged with allegedly smashing his wife’s head into a nightstand and choking her after a swingers’ sex party. The Detroit News first reported the firing of former Special Agent Richard Trask, 39, who took the…

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