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  • Entrapment in play as appeals court looks at plot to kidnap Michigan governor

    06/12/2024 2:28:46 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 5 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 10:41 AM CDT, June 12, 2024 | ED WHITE
    DETROIT (AP) — An appeals court is raising major questions about the trial of two key figures in a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor — and putting federal prosecutors on the defensive as the government tries to preserve the extraordinary guilty verdicts.After hearing arguments in May, the court took the uncommon step of asking for more written briefs on the impact of a trial judge’s decision to bar evidence that might have supported claims of entrapment made by Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr.Fox and Croft are in prison for leading a conspiracy to try to snatch Gov. Gretchen Whitmer...
  • Inside The FBI-Tainted Gretchen Whitmer ‘Kidnap Plot’ You’ve Heard Almost Nothing About

    01/23/2024 5:26:17 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 7 replies
    In a fiery exchange last month, CNN anchorwoman Abby Phillip told GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy that there was “no evidence” to support his claim that federal agents abetted protesters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.Ramaswamy shot back that the FBI conspicuously has never denied that law enforcement agents were on duty in the crowd. He argued that federal officials have repeatedly “lied” to the American people about not only that investigation but one that has gotten much less attention: the alleged failed plot to kidnap and kill Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan in 2020.“It was entrapment,” Ramaswamy...
  • Barry Croft Jr. sentenced to over 19 years in Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot

    12/28/2022 11:09:19 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 14 replies
    NY Post ^ | 12/28/2022 | Priscilla DeGregory
    One of the ringleaders in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was sentenced to more than 19 years behind bars Wednesday — a day after an accomplice was slapped with a 16-year prison term, federal prosecutors said. Barry Croft Jr., 47, was handed the 19½-year sentence by Michigan federal Judge Robert Jonker four months after his conviction for conspiring to kidnap the Democratic governor from her Elk Rapids vacation cottage in 2020. Croft, a trucker from Delaware, was the fourth and final defendant in the plot to learn his fate. The judge described him as “the idea guy”...