Posted on 08/30/2021 8:22:57 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
The Wallace (Idaho) area is wealthy beyond its history of having the richest silver mines in the U.S., union strikes, mining disasters, its claim that it is the “center of the universe” and its scofflaw climate, which tolerated many human vices — bars, gambling and prostitution, to name a few.
Almost nothing impacts the collective memory of the citizens as does June 23, 1991 — now regarded locally as “Black Sunday.” On that day, more than 150 federal, state and local law enforcement agents spread out along I-90 from west to east and raided every bar in Shoshone County from Cataldo to Mullan. An informal telephone tree in the west end of Silver Valley gave early warning to the east end that a massive raid had started. Many fled.
The major target of the raid was illegal gambling, with the gambling machines being tangible evidence of criminal activity. Machines and money were confiscated. Incidentally, if a brothel was encountered, it too was shut down. At the time, there were only two active brothels known to be operating in Wallace. Two hundred video gambling machines were confiscated and over a half a million dollars in cash was seized by the government and never returned.
The sheriff was indicted and tried twice on a RICO charge. The prosecuting attorney for the DOJ's Office of Public Integrity was unable to convince the jury that the sheriff was responsible for over 100 years of gambling and prostitution. The first trial resulted in a hung jury, the second an acquittal.
Some Wallace citizens are still bitter about what they perceive as the government’s heavy-handedness.
...there is the belief that the two-year pre-raid investigation included the FBI buying a local tavern and brothel to gather information. Whether this is true or not, is in question.
(Excerpt) Read more at cdapress.com ...
"DOJ's Office of Public Integrity was unable to convince the jury that the sheriff was responsible for over 100 years of gambling and prostitution." -- imagine that! They couldn't hang a 100 year history of vice on the current sheriff. Now only if we could reach the same conclusion about hanging the 400 year history of slavery on all whites alive today.
NOTE: The FBI wasn't done with North Idaho -- Ruby Ridge occurred 14 months after this raid.
DC has a gigantic number of prostitutes. It leads the nation in trannies. Corruption is utterly endemic.
Funny how DC never gets any FBI attention.
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