Posted on 10/26/2022 10:19:00 AM PDT by Coronal
Three men accused of supporting a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor were convicted of all charges Wednesday, a triumph for state prosecutors after months of mixed results in the main case in federal court.
Joe Morrison, his father-in-law Pete Musico, and Paul Bellar were found guilty of providing “material support” for a terrorist act as members of a paramilitary group, the Wolverine Watchmen.
They held gun drills in rural Jackson County with a leader of the scheme, Adam Fox, who was disgusted with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other officials in 2020 and said he wanted to kidnap her.
Jurors read and heard violent, anti-government screeds as well as support for the “boogaloo,” a civil war that might be triggered by a shocking abduction. Prosecutors said COVID-19 restrictions ordered by Whitmer turned out to be fruit to recruit more people to the Watchmen.
“The facts drip out slowly,” state Assistant Attorney General Bill Rollstin told jurors in Jackson, Michigan, “and you begin to see — wow — there were things that happened that people knew about. ... When you see how close Adam Fox got to the governor, you can see how a very bad event was thwarted.”
Morrison, 28, Musico, 44, and Bellar, 24, were also convicted of a gun crime and membership in a gang. Prosecutors said the Wolverine Watchmen was a criminal enterprise.
Morrison, who recently tested positive for COVID-19, and Musico watched the verdict by video away from the courtroom. Judge Thomas Wilson ordered all three to jail while they await sentencing scheduled for Dec. 15.
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Utterly preposterous, and likely to be overturned on appeal after judge forced out key evidence by defense.
What a steaming pile of ****...
When do they prosecute the FBI provocateurs?
When I saw the subject line, I thought for sure the three would be the FBI agents that engineered the scam.
how many of them were fibbers?
convenient 2 weeks before the election
“a civil war that might be triggered by a shocking abduction”
Even John Brown was not that dumb.
;-)
No mention of the FBI entrapment? What a surprise.
It was a Kangaroo Court. A/K/A Stalin era “show trial”. The verdict was assured before trial. But the People do not give a damn. ..... Until it happens to them.
I watched Whitmer debate Dixon yesterday. Whitmer reminds me of a mean boss who thinks she is gift of God to humanity.
Totally not entrapment by the disgusting and corrupt FBI which protects the chomo in chief.
(Utterly preposterous)
It always sounded like that to me as well.
Not one of them are the FBI pukes who came up with that plot, either.
We will know if they are top shelf FBI agents if they do not serve a day in prison.
So now the fbi can entrap people. We live in a criminal society with a criminal government.
how many trials did it take?
The idiot jurors should have used jury nullification.
Same with any trial where the Eff Bee Eye is involved.
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