Five men are accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, but defense attorneys say federal agents engaged in “egregious overreaching.'
of Richard Trask, an FBI special agent who was arrested on a domestic violence charge and later fired and convicted of a misdemeanor.
“Essentially, the evidence here demonstrates egregious overreaching by the government’s agents, and by the informants those agents handled,” defense attorneys wrote. “When the government was faced with evidence showing that the defendants had no interest in a kidnapping plot, it refused to accept failure and continued to push its plan.”and face a trial March 8 in Grand Rapids. They have pleaded not guilty and claim to be victims of entrapment.
Federal prosecutors have argued the men were not entrapped. The government alleged the men were upset over coronavirus restrictions when they , a Democrat, even scouting her second home in northern Michigan. Messages left Sunday with the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Michigan and the U.S. Department of Justice weren’t immediately returned.Do you have information you want to share with HuffPost?
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