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Anonymous Artists Mock Trump With Giant Gold Toilet By Lincoln Memorial
The 10-foot-tall throne hails Trump for not focusing on the economy, but on “what truly mattered: remodeling the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House.”
In
an homage to the star-crossed lovers of the film “Titanic,” a statue
near the U.S. Capitol depicts President Donald Trump embracing sex
offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The statue, erected by a group known as The Secret Handshake, also features a placard that states: “The tragic love story between Jack and Rose was built on luxurious travel, raucous parties, and secret nude sketches. This monument honors the bond between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, a friendship seemingly built on luxurious travel, raucous parties, and secret nude sketches.”
The latter is a reference to a racy birthday card for Epstein that seemingly bears Trump’s signature. (The card, with its sketch of what appeared to be a girl’s body, was the subject of a different installation by The Secret Handshake last year.) Trump has denied authoring the card.
WASHINGTON — Anyone visiting the Lincoln Memorial this week will get to see a brand-new monument right next to it: a gold toilet mounted on a 10-foot-tall marble throne, hailing President Donald Trump for making a bathroom renovation his top priority.
Anonymous artists installed the faux marble structure early Monday morning to mock Trump for spending his time remodeling the Lincoln Bathroom at the White House instead of addressing pressing matters facing the country.
“In a time of unprecedented division, escalating conflict, and economic turmoil, President Trump focused on what truly mattered: remodeling the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House,” reads a plaque on the throne, which is titled “A Throne Fit For A King.”
“This, his crowning achievement, is a bold reminder that the President isn’t just a businessman, he’s taking care of business,” it reads. “It stands as a tribute to an unwavering visionary who looked down, saw a problem, and painted it gold.”
Asked for comment, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said Trump was “overwhelmingly elected” to redesign a bathroom in the White House.
“President Trump is making the White House and our entire Nation’s Capital more beautiful than ever before,” Ingle said in a statement. “The president will never stop working on behalf of the American people and fulfill the promises that he was overwhelmingly elected to do.”
“It
stands as a tribute to an unwavering visionary who looked down, saw a
problem, and painted it gold,” reads the 10-foot-tall throne hailing
Trump for renovating a White House bathroom. Secret HandshakeA group of anonymous artists known as The Secret Handshake is behind the installation.
The throne is built so people can sit on it and take pictures on the toilet, said a spokesperson for the group. It will be on display for several days, they said, and is located down the stairs from the Lincoln Memorial on its southwest side.
The Secret Handshake has been installing satirical monuments to Trump all over D.C. for years, often in the wee hours of the morning, so nobody can see who is doing it. Earlier this month, the group installed a 12-foot statue by the U.S. Capitol of Trump embracing convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, depicting the two as the fictional lovers in the film “Titanic.”
“This,
his crowning achievement, is a bold reminder that the President isn’t
just a businessman, he’s taking care of business,” reads the toilet
monument to Trump. The group previously installed a giant bronze turd “honoring” Trump, a follow-up monument to the president with mini poop statues, a massive reproduction of a creepy birthday message allegedly sent by Trump to Epstein, and a statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands and prancing together on the National Mall.
Someone at the Trump administration was ruffled enough by that last statue that they ordered the U.S. Park Police to tear it down in the dead of night, not long after it went up. The Secret Handshake said at the time that its statue was destroyed due to “internal pressure” from the administration.
The artists later restored the statue and put it back up, choosing to “leave all the ‘scars’ from when it was originally partially destroyed.”
Asked what is driving the group to keep putting up statues that mock and condemn Trump, the Secret Handshake spokesperson said, “Well, we keep installing them because things in relation to this country and leadership continue to need to be honored.”
Anonymous
artists installed this massive throne and gold toilet by the Lincoln
Memorial to mock Trump for prioritizing a bathroom renovation at the
White House.The latest installation actually looks a lot like how Trump redesigned the bathroom attached to the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House (except his toilet’s handle is the only gold part of the toilet). He boasted about his renovations last October and posted two dozen photos on social media of his finished work.
“I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House,” Trump said in one post. “It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!”
House Republicans Reject Senate Homeland Security Deal, Prolonging Shutdown
Speaker Mike Johnson blamed Democrats, who control none of government, for derailing efforts to fund DHS.
WASHINGTON — House Republicans won’t vote on a Senate-approved deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security, meaning the weekslong partial shutdown of the agency will drag on.
Instead, the House passed its own DHS funding bill late Friday, leaving the agency in limbo and many of its workers still unpaid, with no resolution in sight.
“The Senate Democrats have foisted upon this appropriations process their radical crazy agenda,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters Friday.
The speaker said he spoke to President Donald Trump about punting on the Senate-passed bill and has his support.
The Senate approved funding for DHS and its subagencies, with the exception of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol, in the early hours of Friday morning.
The Senate vote followed Trump’s announcement Thursday that he would order Transportation Security Administration officers to be paid regardless of what happened in Congress.
TSA officers have been told to expect their paychecks next week after the president signed an executive order.
Workers received a text message from the agency Friday afternoon saying they would be paid “at the direction of the president,” with backpay covering two pay periods and a partial third. “Employees should expect most of their backpay in their direct deposit starting Monday, March 30,” the text read.
Officers were told to report to work on their next scheduled day.
“We recognize the challenges you’ve faced and thank you for your commitment, patience and dedication to our work and mission of keeping the traveling public safe,” the agency added.
But Cameron Cochems, a union leader and TSA officer in Boise, Idaho, said many workers aren’t convinced the money will come through, citing legal questions about the White House trying to circumvent Congress to pay employees.
“I’ll believe it when I see it,” Cochems said.
WASHINGTON,
DC, UNITED STATES - MARCH 26: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA)
speaks to reporters after a vote to fund the Department of Homeland
Security, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on March 26, 2026.
(Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)The fact that Trump has ordered the government to pay TSA officers ― as he did for members of the military during the previous government shutdown ― will reduce pressure on lawmakers to reach a deal for the rest of DHS, since long lines at airport security checkpoints should begin to get better as officers get paid and fewer call out sick to work other jobs or sell blood plasma.
American Federation of Government Employees president Everett Kelley noted workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Coast Guard, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency still won’t get paid.
“I have never been more disgusted by the failure of elected leadership in my life,” Kelley said.
Democrats initially refused to support DHS funding last month after immigration agents killed two American citizens during an aggressive crackdown in Minnesota. Democrats demanded reforms to ICE and CBP, but none were included in the Senate bill.
Senate Democrats are opposed to Johnson’s plan and will not allow it to pass in either a pro forma Senate session or in the unlikely scenario that senators return to Washington from their previously scheduled two-week recess.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) called it “dead on arrival.”
“We’ve been clear from day one: Democrats will fund critical Homeland Security functions—but we will not give a blank check to Trump’s lawless and deadly immigration militia without reforms,” he said in a statement.
Senate Republicans, meanwhile, indicated they had no plans to bring the Senate back into session, putting the onus on their House counterparts to swallow the DHS funding bill or else prolong the shutdown for at least another two weeks.
“Given the staunch opposition from Senate Democrats, the clearest path to ending this harmful shutdown is for the House to adopt what the Senate just overwhelmingly approved,” a Senate GOP aide said.
When a reporter pointed out how Johnson’s refusal to allow a House vote on the Senate plan would prolong the shutdown, he insisted it wouldn’t.
“This is not a political blame game,” said the speaker. “This is one party doing the job and getting the government funded and another that’s using people as pawns.”
“What the hell are you guys doing?”
- Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.)
During a House Rules Committee hearing later Friday, which is the panel that tees up votes on the House floor, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) tore into Republicans for unnecessarily dragging out the DHS shutdown.
“What the hell are you guys doing?” asked McGovern, who is the top Democrat on the committee.
He said they all know the Senate’s bill “could pass today with a large majority,” if Johnson gave it a floor vote. He said Trump was even reportedly ready to sign the Senate’s bill.
“Instead of doing the responsible thing — the obvious thing — the speaker is cowardly bowing to a handful of extremist wackos in the Republican conference,” fumed McGovern. “They only care about writing another blank check for ICE … or getting a shout-out on some batshit crazy right-wing podcast.”
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Leonard Peltier Is Finally (Mostly) Free And Has A Lot To Say
BELCOURT, N.D. — After living in a windowless, concrete box for nearly 50 years, Leonard Peltier is discovering the little joys that come with being in a two-bedroom house of his own.
He can see the sun. He has a refrigerator, and a TV with more channels than he can count. He has his now-cherished recliner, the fancy kind that lays you all the way back and, with some navigating on a remote control, pushes you up and right out of the seat. It’s where Peltier, who just turned 81, is content to spend most of his days, nestled in with a fleece blanket as a home health aide brings him rounds of coffee.
“Trying to look for another word, but I can’t find any, so I’ll go with the same one: awesome,” said Peltier, a term he used repeatedly to describe his life over the past seven months.
Until January, Peltier was the longest-serving political prisoner in America. An activist for Indigenous rights, he was convicted in 1977 of murdering two FBI agents, which he has always denied doing. In fact, there was never evidence Peltier killed anyone. And as he sat in prison for all those years — his story becoming the subject of countless books and films and high school assignments, the injustice of his case triggering demands for his release by international human rights leaders, legal experts, politicians, Indigenous leaders and celebrities — Peltier came to symbolize something much bigger than himself.
Between his early years of trauma in an Indian boarding school, his years of activism with the American Indian Movement and the past five decades spent behind bars, Peltier, for many, became the embodiment of so many of the injustices Native Americans and tribes have faced at the hands of the U.S. government. And the fact that he survived all of it, with a resolute attitude of resistance, has made some hail Peltier as a hero.
But not everyone. As much as there had been political will to release him, there had also been political calls for him to stay incarcerated for the rest of his life. Sitting in his cell early this year, after decades of U.S. presidents in both parties passing him over for clemency, Peltier didn’t think President Joe Biden would let him go home, either.
“I had already given up,” he said in an extensive interview with HuffPost at his home. “So I went and laid on my bunk, and I was thinking, ‘Well? This is where I die, I guess.’ Because I wasn’t getting the medical attention I needed. And I was really feeling sick and weak, and I figured, well? This is it. Because I’m gonna die here.”
But a nearby inmate who was listening to his radio heard the news of Biden’s clemency announcement, and shouted from down the hall, “You got it! You got it, Leonard!” A month later, he was walking out of his Florida prison and boarding a private plane home.
Peltier keeps Biden’s clemency order framed and prominently on display in his living room. But he doesn’t think the president freed him out of mercy or a sense of justice. He thinks Biden caved to pressure from influential Democrats and Indigenous leaders, including his own interior secretary, Deb Haaland, to let him go home.
“I don’t think he did it because he loved me or anything,” Peltier said, shrugging. “I think it was because it would have been bad politics. ... I really didn’t expect anything from him.”
Peltier
went to prison in 1976 and was convicted in 1977, remaining behind bars
until earlier this year, after he was granted clemency by departing
President Joe Biden. A lot has changed since Peltier went to prison in 1976. He’s essentially been in a time capsule for 50 years, and is playing catch-up to all the advances in technology he’s missed. He’s talked to Alexa. He can’t believe how savvy iPhones are, after years of using prison pay phones. Modern cars are especially wild to Peltier, considering most people he knew didn’t even have cars when he was growing up — and some were still using horses and wagons.
“I can’t believe it,” he said. “I mean, goddamn, some got everything in them.”
But some things have not changed at all. His relentless focus on fighting the U.S. government’s efforts to take civil and legal rights away from Indigenous people and tribes, and lifting up the health and well-being of Native communities, is just as firm as when he went into prison. In the 1960s, he co-owned an auto shop in Seattle that used the upper level as a halfway house for Indigenous people struggling with alcohol addiction. Today, Peltier is eager to work with Native youth to stem drug and alcohol abuse.
His activism with the American Indian Movement in the early 1970s was largely focused on stopping police brutality and defending tribal sovereignty, or the inherent rights of federally recognized tribes to govern themselves, independent of the U.S. government. Tribes entered into hundreds of treaties with the government between 1778 and 1871, and they remain the legal framework in which tribes operate today. Generally, these treaties involved exchanging tribal land for promises of government-provided health care and education.
But the U.S. government has a long history of breaking its promises on its treaties with tribes. And looking at the moment we’re in, Peltier is very concerned.
“We’re still in danger,” he said. “[President Donald] Trump is talking about our treaties [being] too old, and they should be abolished and everything like this. If our treaties are abolished, that means us, as a race, have been abolished completely. We don’t exist no more.”
Peltier didn’t specify what treaties he was talking about, but Trump has taken actions this year that undermine tribal sovereignty and treaty rights. In June, he withdrew the U.S. from a 2023 agreement with tribes to restore fish populations in the Columbia River. In April, his administration unsuccessfully tried to challenge birthright citizenship by citing a 19th-century legal precedent that excluded some Native Americans from birthright citizenship. His sweeping cuts to federal spending may have violated treaty rights, too.
“Right now, this is the only thing that we have that’s keeping us recognized as a sovereign people, as a sovereign nation,” Peltier warned. “So, we’re in danger. Nothing has changed there. We’re organizing.”
Organizing has changed too, though. Unlike his days with AIM, when Peltier and his allies were literally in the streets fighting back against police brutality and racism, today’s social justice movement includes a vast network of local, state and national groups demanding action and fighting for systemic changes for Native people and tribes. The National Congress of American Indians speaks for hundreds of tribal governments. The Native American Rights Fund provides legal aid to tribes and people. Grassroots Indigenous-led groups like NDN Collective and Native Organizers Alliance are constantly organizing on issues like voting rights and environmental protections.
Despite Trump’s current efforts to wipe out diversity initiatives in America, the country has shifted over the years, culturally and politically, in support of lifting up Native communities and people. Indigenous people aren’t isolated in their fight for social justice; they have been welcomed into broader advocacy efforts by organizations all around the country focused on strengthening civil rights for Black, brown and LGBTQ+ people.
Biden centered his administration on supporting Native people and tribes. He prioritized a thorough review of the U.S. government’s ugly history of Indian boarding schools. He took meaningful actions to protect sacred Indigenous sites and cultural resources, and to address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women. He canceled the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a major win for tribes and environmentalists, and filled his administration with high-level Indigenous staff, not the least of whom was Haaland.
Peltier said he’s impressed with how sophisticated social justice groups have become. The energy behind them, he said, gives him hope for the next generation of activists.
“We’re more unified than we [were] when I left,” he said. “I’m reorganizing the American Indian Movement, from ‘American Indian’ to ‘American Indigenous.’ ... We’re getting a lot of good responses. People want to be part of it. All over the country.”
Peltier's supporters collected money to buy him a home on his reservation and a car.It was only on his flight home in February that Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, learned his supporters had bought him a house on his reservation.
Leaders of NDN Collective, some of whom joined Peltier on his trip home, had spent months collecting money from supporters nationwide to help him get set up. Some people could only chip in $5; others gave thousands of dollars. They also bought him a car, so his friends and family — Peltier has limited vision — can drive him around the community.
Peltier said he wanted to cry when he learned what his supporters had done for him, but he “held it all back” because he wanted to look tough.
“I’m supposed to be a warrior, supposed to be a sun dancer, so you can’t be crying in public,” he said, referring to the Sun Dance religious ceremony practiced in Native cultures in the Great Plains region. “Trying to be a traditionalist, you know? We believe that as warriors, sundance warriors, we don’t believe in crying like a baby.”
He’s taken trips around the community, visiting his old childhood home and attending a recent powwow, where local Indigenous residents danced and celebrated his return. But Peltier seems most happy when he’s holding court from his recliner. His favorite thing to do is “just bullshitting like this,” he said, and that’s what he’s been doing for months, hosting a steady stream of visitors at his house, many of whom are strangers who traveled to this remote town 20 miles south of the Canadian border to bring him gifts and well wishes.
His house, which sits at the end of a nondescript dirt road, feels more like a museum than a private residence. Every inch of wall space in his living room is covered with vibrant, elaborate paintings made by Peltier over the last 50 years, before his eyes went bad. Rows of colorful beaded necklaces hang from the walls, a backdrop for one apparently very effective strip of fly tape dangling from the ceiling. Across the room from his recliner, a large bookshelf is overflowing with feathers, painted animal skulls, sage sticks, faded photographs of ancestors and friends, and unopened packets of Gambler pipe tobacco.
He has even more of his paintings on display in his bedroom — he keeps dozens of others locked up in safes — in addition to dream catchers and a poster from Haaland’s 2025 campaign for New Mexico governor. A piece of paper is taped to his bedroom door with a printed message: “DO NOT ENTER.” Just below it, in tiny letters, it reads, “UNLESS INVITED.”
Peltier can get around his house with a cane or a little assistance from someone, but most of what he needs is within arm’s reach from his favorite chair. His cellphone sits on a small table to his left, propped up for easy access to take all the calls coming in at a jarringly loud decibel level. To his right, a small table holds an array of items he might need at any given moment: fly swatters, the TV remote control, a bottle of hand sanitizer and three pairs of sunglasses. A pile of unopened letters and postcards also awaits his attention here.
He’s never alone. He has two home health aides who alternate between 12-hour shifts at his house. Old friends drop by. Managing all the visitors and media requests for interviews has been so overwhelming that Peltier’s own family has had a hard time getting in the door.
“My children. My grandchildren. Too many people,” he said. “But you can’t say no to them. They helped get me out of prison. They fought for me.”
It was a long fight.
The U.S. government put Peltier in prison after convicting him for murdering two FBI agents during a 1975 shoot-out on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. But it got caught threatening and coercing witnesses to lie under oath, excluding evidence crucial to Peltier’s defense and hiding exculpatory evidence in order to do it. The reality was the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office desperately needed to blame someone for the high-profile deaths of the two agents, and all of Peltier’s other co-defendants had been acquitted based on self-defense. There was nobody left to blame — except Peltier.
Incredibly, the U.S. government later admitted it never did figure out who shot those agents. The U.S. attorney who originally prosecuted Peltier in 1977, Lynn Crooks, told the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in 1985, “We don’t know who killed the agents or what actual participation [Peltier] may have had.” A federal judge on that court, Gerald Heaney, later said the FBI deserved equal blame for the shoot-out that day and called for clemency for Peltier.
Another U.S. attorney who had previously helped put Peltier in prison, James Reynolds, later urged his release and conceded, “We were not able to prove that Mr. Peltier personally committed any offense on the Pine Ridge Reservation.”
The million-dollar question for decades was always, why is this person still in prison, after all the misconduct that was revealed in his case and despite so many pleas for his freedom, from powerful voices ranging from Nelson Mandela to Mother Teresa to Pope Francis? As Peltier’s former attorney Kevin Sharp once put it, the answer was simple: politics, because the FBI was complicit in the misconduct that led to Peltier being imprisoned in the first place.
“In order to get clemency, you have to get the FBI on board. They have an inherent conflict. You have to get the U.S. Attorney’s Office on board. They lied to get him in prison. They have an inherent conflict,” Sharp told HuffPost in 2021. “They’re not going to say, ‘Oops, sorry.’”
“It’s this holdover with the FBI,” he added.
Some U.S. presidents were close to releasing Peltier, particularly Bill Clinton. But he backed off his apparent plan after hundreds of FBI agents protested outside the White House in 2000 in an unprecedented show of public opposition by the bureau, and after being privately lobbied by his friend and former fellow state attorney general, Bill Janklow.
Biden knew he was defying FBI leadership by granting Peltier clemency in January. Weeks earlier, then-FBI Director Christopher Wray expressed his “vehement and steadfast opposition” to Biden’s apparent plan, and the FBI Agents Association ripped the president for his action afterward, saying the group was “outraged.”
Still, the FBI seemed to scramble to defend its position in recent years. When contacted by HuffPost for requests for comment in stories about Peltier, it often provided the same boilerplate statement that was wildly outdated and based on evidence that has since been disproven. The FBI still hasn’t publicly addressed the wider context of that 1975 shoot-out, either: the evidence that the bureau itself was intentionally fueling intra-tribal tensions on that reservation as part of a covert campaign to suppress AIM’s activities. Peltier, an active AIM leader, was a prime FBI target.
An FBI spokesperson initially did not respond to requests for comment. After this story published, a spokesperson said the bureau declined comment.
Even when Biden released Peltier, he did so with a nod to the FBI. He put Peltier under home confinement instead of pardoning him, which would have meant Peltier was fully free and essentially forgiven by the government. Instead, Peltier is serving out the remainder of his two consecutive life sentences at home, with restrictions on his activities.
Peltier has been fighting to loosen those restrictions, of course.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons, which oversees his home confinement, initially told him he wasn’t allowed to have a car, but now he can. He wasn’t originally allowed to travel more than 100 miles from Belcourt, but now he can with a special pass, for medical reasons. The prison bureau also told him he wasn’t allowed to have a girlfriend, which may have infuriated Peltier more than anything, as he made it very clear he loves the company of women.
“I said, ‘What the hell, man?’ You know, why can’t I have a girlfriend? What’s that got to do with this shit?” Peltier said, noting he has a girlfriend in Minnesota. “So they said, ‘OK, you can have a girlfriend. But she can’t spend all night.’ Really.”
He pushed back on the bureau some more and now he’s allowed to have a girlfriend, and she’s allowed to spend the night. She just can’t move in.
Peltier's home, where he is serving the remainder of his two consecutive life sentences.In the hours that we spoke, it was easy to forget that this wasn’t just a casual conversation with someone’s grandpa. Peltier had lots of anecdotes to share from his long life. He talked about his health, which has greatly improved over the last several months. He gushed about his elementary-school-age granddaughter becoming a strong swimmer, pointing to a photo of her pinned to the wall next to his recliner.
But his 81-year-old body is churning with rage. Peltier’s memory is remarkably intact, and he has a wealth of stories he wants to tell, involving decades of U.S. presidents and major moments in American history — all of which inevitably lead back to him losing 49 years of his life to maximum security prisons for a crime he maintains he didn’t commit.
“I’m pissed off,” he said sharply. Asked how often he wakes up furious about what happened to him, he replied without hesitation, “I think almost every day.”
Peltier said he could have gotten out of prison “a long time ago” if he’d been willing to lie and say he shot those FBI agents, but he wouldn’t do it. He also said he wasn’t willing to falsely accuse others of the crime to secure his own freedom.
To throw a fellow Indigenous ally under the bus like that would be “treason to my people,” Peltier said.
Asked if he’d ever considered saying he was guilty of murdering the two FBI agents just to get out of prison sooner, he abruptly rejected that option. “My dear, I took an oath to fight for my people,” he said. “I took an oath for our lives. They were trying to terminate us.”
Peltier brought up the U.S. government’s so-called Indian termination policy, a series of laws put in place from the 1940s to the 1960s aimed at assimilating Native Americans into mainstream culture by abolishing tribes and forcing Native Americans to relocate to urban areas. The policy was reversed in 1970, but it caused lasting damage to tribes and Native communities, namely through the loss of land and disruptions to cultural practices.
“We’d be gone as a race of people” if those policies had continued, Peltier fumed. “One of my uncles brought the newspaper home, I was probably 5 or 6 years old, they said, ‘Look at this, they’re saying we’re the vanishing Americans. They don’t know what happened to us.’ That was the cover of Look Magazine. Grandma started crying, she said, ‘What are they saying that for? We’re still here, look at us. Right? Why are they doing that?’”
“So I know that was true,” he said of the government trying to wipe out Native Americans. “I was standing there listening to that.”
HuffPost asked if he thinks anyone will ever know who killed those FBI agents in 1975.
“I don’t give a shit if they ever know,” Peltier fired back. He said the bigger question is why dozens of AIM members and allies were murdered on Pine Ridge Reservation between 1973 and 1976, during the years of high tension between tribes and the federal government.
“Nobody wants to say anything about Joe Stuntz,” he said, referring to an Indigenous AIM member who was killed in the 1975 shoot-out with the FBI agents, and whose death prompted no legal action. “What about them 62 people who were killed? Who wants to know?”
“They’re not doing a goddamn thing about them,” he continued. “But those two white people?”
Peltier
said he never considered saying he was guilty of murdering the two FBI
agents just to get out of prison sooner, or falsely accusing others to
free himself. “I took an oath to fight for my people,” he said. Photo by Tailyr Irvine for HuffPostPeltier’s puppies broke out of the basement as the interview was wrapping up.
His daughter, who had been drifting in and out with a headache, had just adopted two baby huskies and they ran wild as Peltier beamed and shared their names in Anishinaabe and Lakota, his Native languages. It was one of the many surreal moments of this visit, watching Peltier switch between being an iconic and controversial figure in the Indigenous rights movement, and an 81-year-old man hocking loogies into a can and talking about his dogs.
He has lots of big plans ahead, even in his advanced years. He wants to record an audiobook about his life, because writing books by hand, which he’s done in the past, “was a fuckin’ killer.” He wants to transform his garage into an art studio and get back to painting. He’d need to fix his eyes first, so he’s been talking to Mayo Clinic doctors about procedures that could help his vision. He’s prepared to travel to the Mayo Clinic based in Minnesota if they can help.
He’ll need a special pass from the Bureau of Prisons to go, though.
Peltier’s home health aide had been sitting quietly in the kitchen throughout the day. A woman in her early 30s, she said she’d only been on the job for a few weeks, and politely smiled when asked if it’s been annoying having so many people coming in and out of the house. She said no, and conveyed that she, too, feels how surreal it is being around Peltier.
“I learned about him in school,” she said. “We had to write papers on him.”
Biden's FBI director expressed 'vehement' opposition to Peltier commutation
This story first appeared in NPR's live blog of Donald Trump's 2025 inauguration, where you can find more coverage and context from the day.
Christopher Wray speaks during a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill on March 11, 2024.
Before former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier on Monday, he received a warning from outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Peltier was convicted of killing two FBI agents in the 1970s.
Among other things, Wray told the White House that commuting Peltier's sentence "would be shattering to the victims' loved ones and undermine the principles of justice and accountability that our government should represent."
In a statement, Biden said he was commuting Peltier's sentence "so that he serves the remainder of his sentence in home confinement." Peltier is now in his 80s.
Indigenous rights and human rights activists have long called for Peltier to be released from a high-security prison in Coleman, Fla. They have argued that Peltier was wrongly convicted of those murders and have called his imprisonment an "injustice."
At least 34 members of Congress and one of Biden's own Cabinet members have also called for Peltier's release.
Activists participate in a protest to urge U.S. President Joe Biden to grant Leonard Peltier clemency outside of the White House on September 12, 2023.
This commutation, however, was expressly discouraged by law enforcement.
Wray sent a letter to the White House on Jan. 10. In it, the FBI director expressed "vehement and steadfast opposition to the commutation of Leonard Peltier's sentence."
"I hope these letters are unnecessary, and that you are not considering a pardon or commutation," he wrote. "But on behalf of the FBI family, and out of an abundance of caution, I want to make sure our position is clear: Peltier is a remorseless killer, who brutally murdered two of our own–Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams. Granting Peltier any relief from his conviction or sentence is wholly unjustified and would be an affront to the rule of law."
Wray, who was appointed by President Trump in 2017, announced he is resigning from his post when Biden leaves office.
Ahead of his decision, Biden was told by members of the National Congress of American Indians that Peltier was in poor health and should be sent home for the last years of his life.
The group's president, Mark Macarro of the Pechanga Band of Indians, met with Biden on Air Force One in December, according to the organization's online newsletter.
During the meeting, Macarro told Biden that "Peltier has served five decades in federal prison for a crime that the government has admitted it could not prove." And Macarro also told him that the FBI remained staunchly against clemency for Peltier because "the FBI wants someone to pay for the loss of their two agents, and Peltier is that person."
Natalie Bara, president of the FBI Agents Association, said in a statement Monday that they are "outraged" by the commutation. Bara referred to Peltier as "a convicted cop killer responsible for the brutal murders" of two agents.
"This last-second, disgraceful act by then-President Biden, which does not change Peltier's guilt but does release him from prison, is cowardly and lacks accountability," she said in her statement. "It is a cruel betrayal to the families and colleagues of these fallen Agents and is a slap in the face of law enforcement."
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Rebecca Landsberry-Baker is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and executive director of the Indigenous Journalists Association. She is a recipient of the 2018 NCAIED “Native American 40 Under 40” award, the 2023 Local Champion Award from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the 2023 Gerald Sass Distinguished Service Award from AEJMC.
Landsberry-Baker made her directorial debut with the documentary feature film, BAD PRESS, which is supported by the Sundance Institute, Ford Foundation, and NBC. The film premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and received the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression.
She holds a degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma where she studied public relations and Native American studies at the Gaylord College of Journalism and Strategic Communication. She is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and is based in Los Angeles with deep ties to her tribe and home in Oklahoma.
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In her free time, Laura enjoys reading fiction, trying to learn how to play the lever harp, and crocheting!
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From: Moore, Rob - M.P. <Rob.Moore@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Fredericton police reallocate funds to hire new staff in wake of collapsed murder cases
4 new hires will help police better manage evidence after error led to stays of murder charges
The Fredericton Police Force has reallocated funds so new staff can be hired this year to better manage evidence after a police error upended murder cases against five people.
Fredericton council voted Monday to allow the force to spend an additional $298,846 implementing recommendations made in response to a blunder that led to the five murder charges being stayed.
The murder charges related to two Fredericton-area homicides were stayed in June, effectively ending the cases. The nature of the problem that led to the stayed charges hasn't been released.
The police force hired Ian D. Scott, an Ontario lawyer, to review what happened, and in December, he issued a report outlining 19 public recommendations related to improving how the force investigates major crimes such as homicides.
Last fall, the city budgeted spending $250,000 to start implementing Scott's recommendations.
But the recommendations didn't come out until after the police budget was finalized, and they're set to cost more than what had been budgeted for this year, said police Chief Gary Forward.
Forward said the reallocated funds come from salary savings arising from there being about six vacant officer positions.
With the combined $548,846, Forward said, the force will be able to implement several of Scott's recommendations, including new training for officers and hiring four new staff.
About the new roles
Two of the new employees will be "information system specialists," responsible for data management, digital forensics, statistics analysis and records management.
"It's looking after a lot of the low-level administrative functions that right now [are] being done by our detectives," Forward said.
"So this enables our detectives to spend more time on what they should be focused on, and that's investigating files."
A third new position will be for a staff sergeant whom the information system specialists will report to, Forward said.
"That administrative staff sergeant is looking at the policies, procedures, making sure that there's no shortcuts being taken or that we're not having gaps in our investigations, including going through our historical files and bringing them back up to where they need to be," Forward said.
"[They will be] making sure that we're doing the appropriate followups and contacting families looking for any new evidentiary matters that might accompany those files."
Forward said the fourth new hire will be a "digital evidence management system intermediate clerk," another civilian employee who will help keep track of files associated with major crime cases.
As an example of why the additional civilian staff are needed, Forward pointed to the recent adoption of body-worn cameras by every police officer.
He said those cameras produce evidence that require time and effort to sort and manage.
"You can well imagine that for approximately every … one hour of body-worn camera footage, it would take digital evidence staff about three hours to properly go through, vet and prepare the file for court purposes," said.
"And that is, is obviously work that we need to have done, to make sure that we're meeting our deadlines for file submission."
On June 27, Fredericton-region homicide cases came to a halt when the Crown stayed charges against Erica Lea Ann Blyth, Joshua John McIsaac, Devon Mark Hill Hood, Matthew David LeBlanc and Travis James Snowsell.
Blyth, McIsaac, Hood and LeBlanc were accused of killing Brandon Donelan. McIsaac was also accused, along with Snowsell, of killing Corey Markey.
Markey was shot on Fredericton's north side early on Dec. 21, 2022, and died in hospital eight days later. Donelan was reported missing Jan. 30, 2022. His body was found in a wooded area off a snowmobile trail between Minto and Chipman on March 31, 2022.
Forward said the first recommendation from Scott's report — creating an oversight framework for the recommendations — was implemented last month with the appointment of retired RCMP inspector Andrea Gallant to oversee the implementation process.
Forward said recommendation numbers 2 to 10, as well as 14 will be implemented this year.
According to a staff report to council, the cost to implement the recommendations will climb to $643,896 for 2027, in part because of the need to purchase three new fleet vehicles.
The recommendations are expected to cost $428,896 in 2028, though Forward said all of them should already be in place by June of the previous year.
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Date: Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Ontario lawyer to review Fredericton police after murder charges stayed
Police force says it won't disclose the issue that led to stays of 3 murder trials
Shane Magee · CBC News · Posted: Jul 09, 2025 3:24 PM ADTAn Ontario lawyer has been tasked with reviewing the Fredericton police major crime unit practices after an 'error' led to scuttling three murder trials, though the police force says the exact nature of the problem will remain secret.
The police announced Wednesday that Ian D. Scott had been retained to carry out the review starting later this month, with a public report to be issued by the end of the year.
From 2008 to 2013, Scott served as director of Ontario's Special Investigations Unit. The unit investigates police in that province.
However, the force said not all information will be released.
"Under the Canada Evidence Act public disclosure of the evidentiary issue in question is prohibited on the grounds that such disclosure would bring the administration of justice into disrepute," a news release said.
The release did not say what section of the law would prohibit the release of the information. The force has yet to respond to a question about which section it is referring to in the law.
On June 27, three Fredericton-region murder trials came to a halt when the Crown stayed charges against Erica Lea Ann Blyth, Joshua John McIsaac, Devon Mark Hill Hood, Matthew David LeBlanc and Travis James Snowsell.
Blyth and McIsaac were accused of killing Brandon Donelan in 2022. Hood and LeBlanc were being tried separately and were also accused of killing Donelan. McIsaac was also accused, along with Snowsell, of killing Corey Christopher Markey in Fredericton in 2021.
The Fredericton police said the stays were the result of an error in its investigation into Markey's death. The force said the error also affected the RCMP's investigation into Donelan's death.
'Practices, policies, and procedures' under review
The only information diisclosed until Wednesday was that there was an "insurmountable evidentiary issue," and that the force would seek an independent review.
The news release says the review will examine the force's "practices, policies, and procedures relating to our Major Crime – Major Case Management services."
The force hasn't said whether the error stemmed from the actions of one officer or if it was a systemic problem.
"We take full responsibility and accountability for the circumstances that led to this outcome," Gary Forward, the police chief, said Wednesday's statement.
CBC News has requested an interview with the police chief about the review but was told he was not available.
The police force didn't answer questions Wednesday about how Scott was selected, whether a public inquiry was considered, or if anyone's job status with the force has been affected by the error.
New Brunswick Justice Minster Rob McKee has not provided an interview about the stayed charges.
Public Safety Minister Robert Gauvin, whose mandate includes policing in the province, has also not yet commented.
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2022/12/to-hell- with-killer-cop-gilles-moreau. html
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
To Hell with the KILLER COP Gilles Moreau
http://www.cacole.ca/confere-reunion/pastCon/pdf/ 2003Biographies-eng.pdf.
Canadian Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement
(CACOLE)
Conference 2003
CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT - BALANCING RISK,
RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Sunday, October 5 to Tuesday, October 7th, 2003
Moderator & Speaker Biographies
Page 7
Grant Smyth Garneau
Bishops University- B.A. 1961, M.A 1972
University of New Brunswick- L.L.B. 1973
1973-75
Crown Prosecutor- N.B
1975-80
Faculty of Law- U.N.B
1980-86 Chief Coroner/Chief Sheriff- N.B.
1986 -88 Solicitor Dept. Justice- N.B.
1988-98 A/D/M- Solicitor General- N.B.
1998-Present
Vice Chairman- N.B Police Commission
Legal Counsel- Office of Chief Firearms Officer N.B.
Small Claims Court Adjudicator- N.B.,
Member of Child Death Review Committee- N.B.
Mr, Garneau is recently retired from working as a lawyer in the
justice system in New Brunswick and is presently the Vice Chairman of
the New Brunswick Police
Commission
http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2013/10/re-glen- greenwald-and-brazilian.html
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:37:08 -0400
> Subject: To Hell with the KILLER COP Gilles Moreau What say you NOW
> Bernadine Chapman??
> To: Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, phil.giles@statcan.ca,
> maritme_malaise@yahoo.ca, Jennifer.Nixon@ps-sp.gc.ca,
> bartman.heidi@psic-ispc.gc.ca, Yves.J.Marineau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> david.paradiso@erc-cee.gc.ca, desaulniea@smtp.gc.ca,
> denise.brennan@tbs-sct.gc.ca, anne.murtha@vac-acc.gc.ca, webo
> < webo@xplornet.com>, julie.dickson@osfi-bsif.gc.ca,
> rod.giles@osfi-bsif.gc.ca, flaherty.j@parl.gc.ca, toewsv1
> < toewsv1@parl.gc.ca>, "Nycole.Turmel" <Nycole.Turmel@parl.gc.ca>,
> Clemet1 <Clemet1@parl.gc.ca>, maritime_malaise
> < maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>, oig <oig@sec.gov>, whistleblower
> < whistleblower@finra.org>, whistle <whistle@fsa.gov.uk>, david
> < david@fairwhistleblower.ca>
> Cc: j.kroes@interpol.int, David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>,
> bernadine.chapman@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, "justin.trudeau.a1"
> < justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca>, "Juanita.Peddle"
> < Juanita.Peddle@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>,
> "Wayne.Lang" <Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Robert.Trevors"
> < Robert.Trevors@gnb.ca>, "ian.fahie" <ian.fahie@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
>
> http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/nb/news-nouvelles/media-medias- eng.htm
>
> http://nb.rcmpvet.ca/Newsletters/VetsReview/ nlnov06.pdf
>
> From: Gilles Moreau <Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:03:22 -0500
> Subject: Re: Lets ee if the really nasty Newfy Lawyer Danny Boy
> Millions will explain this email to you or your boss Vic Toews EH
> Constable Peddle???
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> Please cease and desist from using my name in your emails.
>
> Gilles Moreau, Chief Superintendent, CHRP and ACC
> Director General
> HR Transformation
> 73 Leikin Drive, M5-2-502
> Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R2
>
> Tel 613-843-6039
> Cel 613-818-6947
>
> Gilles Moreau, surintendant principal, CRHA et ACC
> Directeur général de la Transformation des ressources humaines
> 73 Leikin, pièce M5-2-502
> Ottawa, ON K1A 0R2
>
> tél 613-843-6039
> cel 613-818-6947
> gilles.moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>
>>>> David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> 2012-11-21 00:01 >>>
>
> Could ya tell I am investigating your pension plan bigtime? Its
> because no member of the RCMP I have ever encountered has earned it
> yet
>
> Obviously I am the guy the USDOJ and the SEC would not name who is the
> link to Madoff and Putnam Investments
>
> Here is why
>
> http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction= Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID= 90f8e691-9065-4f8c-a465- 72722b47e7f2
>
> Notice the transcripts and webcasts of the hearing of the US Senate
> Banking Commitee are still missing? Mr Emory should at least notice
> Eliot Spitzer and the Dates around November 20th, 2003 in the
> following file
>
> http://www.checktheevidence.com/pdf/2526023- DAMOSIntegrity-yea-right.-txt.
>
> NONE of you should have assisted in the cover up of MURDER CORRECT???
>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:40:18 -0300
Subject: YO FBI Special Agent Richard Deslauriers I just called your
office and the nasty Yankee played dumb as usual
To: boston@ic.fbi.gov, washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, "bob.paulson"
< bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Kevin.leahy"
< Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, Brian.Kelly@usdoj.gov,
us.marshals@usdoj.gov, Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov, jcarney
< jcarney@carneybassil.com>, bbachrach@bachrachlaw.net
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, birgittaj
< birgittaj@althingi.is>, shmurphy@globe.com, Red Ice Creations
< redicecreations@gmail.com>
Clearly I am not joking
Just Dave
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On 6/15/13, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
> FBI Boston
> One Center Plaza
> Suite 600
> Boston, MA 02108
> Phone: (617) 742-5533
> Fax: (617) 223-6327
> E-mail: Boston@ic.fbi.gov
>
> Hours
> Although we operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, our normal
> "walk-in" business hours are from 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday
> through Friday. If you need to speak with a FBI representative at any
> time other than during normal business hours, please telephone our
> office at (617) 742-5533.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:20:20 -0300
> Subject: Yo Fred Wyshak and Brian Kelly your buddy Whitey's trial is
> finally underway now correct? What the hell do I do with the wiretap
> tapes Sell them on Ebay?
> To: Brian.Kelly@usdoj.gov, us.marshals@usdoj.gov,
> Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov, jcarney <jcarney@carneybassil.com>,
> bbachrach@bachrachlaw.net, michael wolfheart
> < wolfheartlodge@live.com>, jonathan.albano@bingham.com,
> shmurphy@globe.com, mvalencia@globe.com
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, oldmaison
> < oldmaison@yahoo.com>, PATRICK.MURPHY@dhs.gov, rounappletree@aol.com
>
> http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/06/05/james-whitey- bulger-jury-selection-process- enters-second-day/ KjS80ofyMMM5IkByK74bkK/story. html
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/06/09/nsa-leak- guardian.html
>
> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I must ask
> them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING????
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugUalUO8YY
>
> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the
> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball
> cards?
>
> http://archive.org/details/ITriedToExplainItToAllMaritime rsInEarly2006
>
> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/2006/05/wiretap-tapes-impeach- bush.html
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/ PoliceSurveilanceWiretapTape13 9
>
> http://archive.org/details/Part1WiretapTape143
>
> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
> Senator Arlen Specter
> United States Senate
> Committee on the Judiciary
> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
> Washington, DC 20510
>
> Dear Mr. Specter:
>
> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
> raised in the attached letter.
>
> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap tapes.
>
> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously.
>
> Very truly yours,
> Barry A. Bachrach
> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> To: "Fred.Wyshak" <Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov>; "jcarney"
> < jcarney@carneybassil.com>; <Brian.Kelly@usdoj.gov>;
> < us.marshals@usdoj.gov>
> Cc: <edit@thr.com>; "maritime_malaise" <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>;
> "Wayne.Lang" <Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 11:50 AM
> Subject: So Fred Wyshak has Brian Kelly and the rest of the corrupt
> Feds practiced the spirit of fill disclosure with Jay Carney??
>
> If so then why didn't Mr Carney return my phone calls last July???
>
> http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/ 2012/01/09/bulger_lawyers_due_ in_court_for_update_on_ evidence/
>
> http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lawyer_known_as_ patron_saint_of_hopeless_ cases_is_representing_whitey_ bulge/
>
> http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_0625lawyer_ tab_is_in_billys_court_feds_ believe_brother_should_shell_ out_for_defense
>
> http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-01/news/29726987_1_ jay-carney-bulger-brookline- clinics
>
> http://carneybassil.com/team/carney/
>
> Truth is stranger than fiction. Perhaps Ben Affleck and Matt Damon a
> couple of boyz from Beantown who done good will pay attention to mean
> old me someday EH?
>
> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ben-affleck-matt- damon-whitey-bulger-254994
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
> 902 800 0369
>
> SOMEBODY SHOULD ASK THE CBC AND THE COPS A VERY SIMPLE QUESTION.
>
> WHY was Byron Prior and I banned from parliamentry properties while I
> running for a seat in parliament in 2004 2 whole YEARS before the
> mindless nasty French Bastard Chucky Leblanc was barred in NB and yet
> the CBC, the Fat Fred City Finest and the RCMP still deny anything
> ever happened to this very day even though Chucky and his pals have
> blogged about it???
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2006/06/ 20/nb-bloggerbanned20060620. html
>
> http://qslspolitics.blogspot.ca/2008/06/david-amos-vs-fat- fred-citys-finest.html
>
> http://qslspolitics.blogspot.ca/2008/04/david-amos-nb-nwo- whistleblower-part-3.html
>
> http://qslspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/07/feds- institutionalize-determined- nb.html
>
> Did anybody bother to listen to me explain things to the Police
> Commissioners in 2004?
>
> http://archive.org/details/NewBrunswickPoliceCommission
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
> 902 800 0369
>
http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2013/10/perhaps- rcmp-should-review-my-old.html
December 11, 2003
RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli
Solicitor General of Canada Wayne Easter
Deputy Solicitor General Nicole Jauvin
c/o Michael Kergin
The Consulate General of Canada
Three Copley Place, Suite 400
Boston, MA 02116,
Sirs and Madame,
We are certainly a well-mixed bunch of Canadians. Ambassador
Kergin was born in a Canadian military hospital in Bramshott, England,
on April 26th, 1942. At the time his father was likely in the Canadian
military fighting against the Axis Powers in Italy etc. Commissioner
Zaccardelli was born and raised in Italy until the age of seven when
he then moved to Canada with his family. He was free to do so because
of the sacrifice of our forefathers to free the world of fascists and
their efforts towards a New World Order of their own. Wayne Easter and
I were born to be free men of the Maritimes. Byway of his political
good fortune he has been appointed as the Solicitor General of Canada
to speak for all other Canadian Citizens even this little old scooter
tramp.
The funny part is Mr. Easter is not a lawyer and yet it is
perfectly acceptable for him to speak to Attorney General Ashcroft on
my behalf. On the other hand, Ashcroft has denied me the right to
speak on behalf of the interests of my own wife, my children and
myself in the USA. This has been done even though I have every right
to do so under her Durable Power of Attorney, my rights as a father
and the right to protect my own interests. If anyone should understand
me and speak up on my behalf it is Mr. Easter. The reason I send the
enclosed documents is because of his words as follows:
"The IBETs are but one example of the tremendous cooperation
between our two countries to keep our citizens safe and secure. Our
partnership has grown to become an international model of how two
countries can, and should work together on trans-border crime and
terrorism issues," said Mr. Easter.
Mr. Ashcroft and Mr. Easter also signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to
improve the method and speed of fingerprint data sharing between the
RCMP and the FBI. It builds on an agreement signed last December and
is a clear demonstration of the Smart Border Declaration's call for an
accord allowing the exchange of information between law enforcement
agencies in the two countries. " Obviously you know it all anyway.
Please find enclosed an exact copy of letters with all
enclosures except the copy of the wiretap tape sent yesterday to Mr.
Richardson of the FBI and The Carter Center. This is done to support
my allegations. If I disappear someone will bring a great deal of
evidence to the proper Canadian Authorities to aid in their search for
me.
All that I can say for now is thanks for nothing. I will go it
alone as usual. Did the person who called me back on November 19/03
really think that Ashcroft would let me use the payphone in Cuba in
order to call the Canadian Consulate for help? He also should learn a
little something about privacy before he tries to teach anything to
the newcomer in your office named Kim. I should not have to ask who
else is listening to our private conversation. He should tell me first
then ask my permission to include her. I am wondering if he is a
lawyer. It is better that I keep my own counsel if he is the best you
have to offer. Besides, I can't trust any authority and the RCMP in
particular. I have already written a great deal about why that is.
Where I go and why is nobody' business, as I said if perchance I
disappear, a friend of mine will see that you receive much evidence
for you all to investigate and make your inquiries as to my
whereabouts. Considering the Commissioner's stated expertise about the
mob he should well understand what the people are talking about on the
many tape recordings. At the very least I have now made you witnesses
to my pursuit of justice in the USA. If the Commissioner someday
doubts the recordings are genuine, perhaps he should call the people
recorded and ask them if they knew they were being recorded before he
calls me a liar. I am still pissed of about the RCMP calling me a
drug-dealing member of a bike gang. I swear, the next time a cop even
suggests that of me I will sue him and his little dog too and point at
the RCMP for starting that slander.
I had attempted to report the unwillingness of the RCMP to
investigate my matters to the so-called independent folks in BC only
to be informed that it would be the RCMP that would investigate their
own selves. Well, I have seen that before and I know for a fact that
won't wash. It appears that Commissioner Zaccardelli and I have
crossed paths before. He was the Officer in Charge of Criminal
Operations in New Brunswick from 1989 to 1993, was instrumental in
initiating and overseeing investigations during his time in J
Division. I was one of the people that he investigated. All
allegations made against me were false but that did not stop the RCMP
from recording their suspicions of me on all the police computer
networks. As a result I have been harassed many times over the years
and almost shot twice by trigger-happy Yankee cops.
The reason the RCMP were so diligent in trying to make me appear
like a bad dude was because they knew I was more than capable of
exposing some of their wrongs. Life is too short to battle big crooked
government officials and small town gossips, so I split. The Maritimes
is a very small place in a great big world but I do miss it alot
sometimes. Now that my new little family in the USA is under attack, I
had no choice but to make a stand. Now I must leave them in order to
protect them from foul play against me. When the FEDS down here
started acting poorly I had nowhere else to ask for help but from but
the Solicitor General of my native land. Turns out Mr. Easter is just
another politician. I will wager that I am more popular in many
circles on PEI than he is because I am not a double-talking
politician. There are many men employed by the Canadian government
that I have known for a long time that do know the truth I state.
I will have much to say in my book about cover-ups practiced by
the RCMP that I have known to exist in the Maritimes. If Mr. Easter
chooses to recall there are a few disgraceful happenings on PEI. The
RCMP actually enlisted my services to investigate, testify, and give
my expert opinion as to the cause of one man's demise. But when I
pointed my finger at a killer cop, the RCMP didn't like me anymore.
However the lawyer for the widow of the dead man wasn't long hiring me
to prove it and the RCMP were even quicker settling a civil lawsuit
out of court and the public view. I have my own ghosts to answer to
because if I had been more outspoken, maybe other people would not
died in similar circumstances after that time. If the Commissioner is
concerned about what the CBC has recently said about him and his
actions in New Brunswick he is going to find my words very upsetting.
I will be sending the Dudes at CTV some stuff shortly. Please view
their email to me last year and also proof of the fact that I had made
the CBC and Argeo Cellucci the US Ambassador to Canada well aware of
my concerns on July 16/02.
I have included four other documents in this letter. They are
rather telling things. One is my affidavit that I served upon the U.S.
Attorney in New Hampshire on March 31st 2003. Another is a Cinderella
Affidavit sold to me by the Carver Police Dept on July 16th 2003.
One day after I served the U. S. Attorney my affidavit, the Secret
Service were at my door investigating false allegations made against
me. The second document relates to events one day after I faxed and
mailed Attorney General Ashcroft. My wife and I were pulled out of a
line of cars by three cop cars and charged with speeding immediately
after leaving court. The first words out of the cop's mouth were a
joke about the conspiracy against me. After I easily beat him in
court, I demanded a copy of his Affidavit that was read to the court.
I was refused and was told I could get a copy of it from the cop shop
the next day. I later received a newly worded one with the wrong date
and the cop refused to sign it. Please notice that a speeding stop had
turned into a Secret Service stop. It is a classic example of a
Cinderella Affidavit smiliar to what the General Counsel to the Board
Of Bar Overseers Michael Fredrickson writes about. The really funny
part is that he taught at Mount Allison University when the
Commissioner and I were stomping around there area and he as fined by
the Ethic Commission for writing the book on the state's time and used
its resources. Please notice that the Secret Service is still
investigating me rather than Bank Fraud. The fact that the cops were
harassing us was no coincidence when you look what I filed in New
Hampshire the week before. In the third document you will see that the
very next day on my birthday two other cops tried to arrest me for no
reason whatsoever while I waited in court for a properly marked motion
to be heard in Norfolk Probate Court. Last week another cop came right
through a closed door without a warrant and without asking to enter in
an effort to hassle me. The instant I tried to give him some wiretap
tapes in front of a witness he couldn't run away fast enough just like
the two cops from Canton. I think they will leave me alone for awhile
until they come up with a new plan. In the fourth document you can
see that the Bulgers and Congressman Lynch know it all.
As I say in the enclosed documents I have now taken up bounty
hunting. I find it very interesting that I can find no record of what
happened after September 11th 2001. That day that it was reported that
some bones were found in Deerfield Nova Scotia. Did Ashcroft ask you
to quit looking? Would some please tell me the results of your
investigations in NS in order to aid in my search for Whitey Bulger.
My family needs the money so that I may hire many lawyers to sue many
other lawyers. I have already proved my point that they are all
crooks. It is for lawyers to waltz along behind with all the legal
crap that follows. I will fight fire with fire so to speak. Almost one
year ago I notified many Deans of Canadian Law Schools that I would be
looking to hire new lawyers yet tainted by the system. It appears that
they have ignored me. Now I will approach their students. Not all
lawyers are unethical. I judge it best to search for honest ones
amongst the youngest of us. After all it is their future that the old
crooks are messing with. In the "Mean" time I am going hunting alone.
Trust me I find it far more fun than arguing with liars that hold all
the cards within a corrupt system.
The last but far from least of the documents I have included is a
copy of my filing in New Hampshire US District Court on May 15th 2003
and related letters. Please notice that the clerk caused it to
disappear from the public record fraudulently claiming that I had
filed it on May 16th 2003. The other matters that Judge McAuliffe
refers to seem to have disappeared from the public record as well.
If you don't like my words or my pissed off attitude, sue me. I
Double Dog Dare you. It will just speed up my sincere effort to place
the shame where it belongs and that is upon all of you. I am emailing
this document around the world to prove what big media already knows.
Anyone can view all the documents that I refer to and a great deal
more at the following web address: http://
briefcase.yahoo.com/motomaniac_02186 Just go to the file called legal
crap then start surfing. The tiff files are easily viewed by the old
Kodak imaging program found in most Windows software. The Mp3 files
speak for themselves. I just struck myself dumb.
Cya'll in Court:)
David R. Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton MA. 02186
or
P.O. Box 2
South Acworth, NH. 03607 or
140 South Thompson St
Starke, FL 32091 or
812 Elm St E,
Hampton, SC 29924 or
RR#1
Oxford Jct, Nova Scotia BOM 1R0
or a town near you
Jan 3rd, 2004
Mr. David R. Amos
153 Alvin Avenue
Milton, MA 02186
U.S.A.
Dear Mr. Amos
Thank you for your letter of November 19th, 2003, addressed to my
predecessor, the Honourble Wayne Easter, regarding your safety. I
apologize for the delay in responding.
If you have any concerns about your personal safety, I can only
suggest that you contact the police of local jurisdiction. In
addition, any evidence of criminal activity should be brought to their
attention since the police are in the best position to evaluate the
information and take action as deemed appropriate.
I trust that this information is satisfactory.
Yours sincerely
A. Anne McLellan
http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-50/page-12.html# h-20
Status of Canadian Forces and R.C.M.P.
36. For the purposes of determining liability in any proceedings by or
against the Crown, a person who was at any time a member of the
Canadian Forces or of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police shall be
deemed to have been at that time a servant of the Crown.
R.S., 1985, c. C-50, s. 36;1990, c. 8, s. 32.
September 11th, 2004
Dear Mr. Amos,
On behalf of Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, I
acknowledge receipt of two sets of documents and CD regarding
corruption, one received from you directly, and the other forwarded to
us by the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.
I regret to inform you that the Governor General cannot intervene in
matters that are the responsibility of elected officials and courts of
Justice of Canada. You already contacted the various provincial
authorities regarding your concerns, and these were the appropriate
steps to take.
Yours sincerely
Renee Blanchet
Office of the Secretary
to the Governor General
http://davidamos.blogspot.com/2006/05/harper-and-bankers. html
Criminal Code PART IV: OFFENCES AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION OF LAW AND
JUSTICE Corruption and Disobedience
126. (1) Every one who, without lawful excuse, contravenes an Act of
Parliament by wilfully doing anything that it forbids or by wilfully
omitting to do anything that it requires to be done is, unless a
punishment is expressly provided by law, guilty of an indictable
offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.
2) Any proceedings in respect of a contravention of or conspiracy to
contravene an Act mentioned in subsection (1), other than this Act,
may be instituted at the instance of the Government of Canada and
conducted by or on behalf of that Government.
R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 126; R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 185(F).
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CBC's Journalistic Standards and PracticesFormer Tulsa Police Sergeant Recalls Involvement With ‘Whitey’ Bulger
The mobster James “Whitey” Bulger died in prison Tuesday morning and multiple sources say he was murdered.
The mobster James “Whitey” Bulger died in prison Tuesday morning and multiple sources say he was murdered.
Bulger was the man who ordered the murder of Tulsan Roger Wheeler, an executive shot in a country club parking lot 1981. Tulsa Police homicide detectives helped bring Bulger to justice even though he was a mobster in Boston. The murder was a mob hit, ordered by Whitey Bulger.
He was the FBI’s Most Wanted for 16 years until he was captured in 2011. The Tulsa connection to Whitey Bulger was a murder case that lasted through the career of retired Detective Mike Huff.
“It impacted my life through two divorces,” said Huff.
In 1981, Sergeant Huff investigated the murder of Roger Wheeler. He was a Tulsa business executive, killed in his car at Southern Hills Country Club. Bulger didn’t kill him, but he hired the man who did.
For 20 years, Bulger ran a gang of mobsters around Boston. In 1994, as federal agents closed in, he fled on a tip from a corrupt FBI agent. The resulting scandal took Sergeant Huff before Congress to testify about the Tulsa case.
“The biggest part of my life was spent dealing with Whitey Bulger and I’m glad it’s over,” Huff said.
Bulger was convicted, sentenced to life for conspiracy, extortion, and other charges, but not murder.
“There were a lot of things we never got answers on his involvement with corrupt FBI agents and many other murders he might have been involved in. But for me, I know his role in the murder in Tulsa, of Mr. Wheeler,” said Huff.
Bulger was transferred Monday to a federal prison in West Virginia. The Bureau of Prisons said Bulger was “found unresponsive” in his cell Tuesday morning and despite life-saving measures, he was pronounced dead. An investigation is underway into whether Bulger was murdered in custody.
“An evil guy got what he was due. I don’t condone murder, but I’m not surprised by it either,” said Huff.
Bulger was 89 and by chance during the transfer between prisons was in Oklahoma City last week. The Boston Globe reports there is a suspect in his murder, another inmate with ties to the mob.
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In this episode of Gangland Wire, retired Tulsa homicide detective Mike Huff joins host Gary Jenkins to break down one of the most shocking mob hits in U.S. history. Det. Huff tells about the 1981 murder of businessman Roger Wheeler at Southern Hills Country Club and the investigation that ended in the arrest of Boston F.B.I. agent Paul Rico. You can learn more about this story by reading Mike’s book, Killing My Father: The Inside Story of the Biggest FBI Corruption Scandal in History.
What started as a local homicide case quickly unraveled into a national organized crime conspiracy involving Florida Jai Alai gambling, the Winter Hill Gang, and notorious Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger. Huff shares how he uncovered links to FBI corruption, the Dixie Mafia, and hitman John Martorano, who eventually confessed to the killing.
Huff also opens up about working with Roger Wheeler’s son, David, the
emotional toll of the investigation, and how their joint efforts
finally exposed the truth. His book Killing My Father reveals even more about this decades-long fight for justice.
Transcript
[0:00] Well, hey, all you wiretappers, good to be back here in the
studio of Gangland Wire. I have another former cop, a retired copper
from not too far away from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and he has a heck of a
story. He’s written a book about it, but it’s a heck of a story. Down in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, they’ve got a mob murderer. Well, now, mob murders
don’t just go down every day in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and it’s a really
interesting story that ties clear back to to the highlight business down
in florida to the winter hill gang in uh boston massachusetts uh to
whitey bulger really and and a hit man named john moderano and to a one
of the infamous corrupt fbi agents out of boston you know they seem to
have had a problem in the boston fbi for a period of years there and a
couple three of their guys end up going to jail uh over probably being a
little bit overly uh that they forgot where the line was it looks to me
like but anyhow it was uh it’s a retired detective mike huff welcome
mike, Well, hey, welcome to U2. Thank you for doing this. All right,
Mike. Now, tell us a little bit about your career. You know, how did you
come up through the ranks in Tulsa PD? Well, I started in January of
1975.
[1:20] I got promoted to a detective in 1980. I didn’t much like it. It wasn’t enough action. I had a good career on the street. But I like my supervisor a lot. So I stuck with this being a detective.
[1:39] In May of 81, May 27th, you know, I just got to work. I was checking on a guy that I had shot three weeks earlier who was in intensive care. We’re just sitting there and we’re talking about we’re going to eat supper. And I was on the phone with the hospital. Checking on this guy’s condition, and police radio came on and said, we need all the homicide detectives to head out to Southern Hills Country Club on a shooting. I guess 5-0s that night, you know, we hit it out there, and, you know, Southern Hills, even at that time, before a lot of all the major golf tournaments they’ve since had, was a very, well, it was the kind of place that I wasn’t familiar with.
[2:34] Everybody with money was part of that country club, and I wasn’t one of that crowd. There’s a middle-aged man swamped over in a seated car. He’d been shot between the eyes. It was a little bit foreign to me. You know, I’d been a homicide detective for a year and had been to a good bunch of homicides, but most of them were, you know, street murders or domestics, things like that. And so I knew this one was going to be a bit different, but I didn’t know how different this was going to be. I think I was 25 at the time. My supervisor told me this was going to be my being in charge of the scene. So we started making assignments. Very little evidence of the scene. There were four live rounds laying right outside the opened doorway of Mr. Wheeler’s Cadillac. You know, that was pretty puzzling. This one’s right near one of the…
[3:40] Really nice swimming pools out there, and we found a few witnesses. People had seen this car. It looked out of place. I don’t know why anybody hadn’t had somebody check it out. A couple guys sitting in the car. Mike, tell us a little bit about how did you figure out who this guy was? He was pretty well-known in Tulsa, and that’s a pretty well-known country club guy. Just for your information, the Southern Hills Country Club is a primo, premier golf course here in the Midwest. And it’s nothing but high-end, rich oil people in Tulsa, I believe, mainly went to that. And so tell us about how you figured out who this victim was. He had a nice car. Well, the people were abuzz and said, you know,
[4:31] you don’t know who this guy is. He owns a telex corporation. Well, that didn’t mean a whole lot to me, other than they said, you know, he employs thousands of people. You know, this was a time that was before Google or the Internet or cell phones or anything. I think I had a police radio, and I don’t even think pagers were invented yet.
[5:02] Communication was tough. You know, the word started trickling in of who he was. I guess we were probably out at the scene for six or seven hours and documenting it and getting our pictures and all that kind of scene work. We went back to the station, detective area, we called it the bullpen. The bullpen was filled with brass, people they’d called in and whatever. The word was there was going to be a 13-man task force formed on this deal, and they started breaking that out. Boy, for some reason, I sure thought I wanted to be on it. And I got the word to the sergeant that there is a scene in the book that we wrote. This sergeant, Roy Hunt, was a legend. He had solved murders for decades. I really liked him. He liked me. He pulled me to the side and he said, hey, if you get involved in this, it’s probably going to change your life. And he said, you’ve got a pretty good career down here. So, you know, this is probably going to screw it up, you know, if it doesn’t kill you. I mean, I was so young, green, that I said, oh, man, I don’t want to do this. He said, all right, let’s drink to it. So he pulled out a bottle of whiskey and a couple of shot glasses from his desk. The good old days.
[6:29] And so we need a, We had a drink about it. You know, I wasn’t the only guy involved. I mean, involved in that task force. After about a couple weeks, the lead started dwindling. It boiled down to me and a really good fellow named Dick Bishop. We got assigned a case. You know, it was a good learning experience for me. I had Dick Bishop. I had my sergeant. You know, we were, for some reason, 1981, that was a big homicide year for Tulsa. We had close to 80 homicides. I was working around the clock. You know, I mean, I’d pick up a grounder here or there on top of this.
[7:11] And so we stayed busy, but we got a call from the state police in Massachusetts. And they said, hey, I need to be up here. Actually, Dick and Sergeant Walter Hunt went to Boston. I didn’t make that trip. But I just worked another homicide. Let me ask you a question here. At this point in time, I know a red ball like that, a hot case like that, where the phones light up at first with all kinds of bad leads and crazy leads, and everybody’s running down all these leads. But you mentioned that there was a car in the lot that somebody mentioned was suspicious. Was that, had you figured out that was the car that had been occupied by whoever killed Roger Wheeler? Yes, sir. It was the late 70s, probably a 79 or 80, four-door, LTD, four-door. Two guys with beards were in the car and they were And somebody got a partial tag. That partial tag, I mean, we had conflicting information about even the partial tag.
[8:22] I mean, we had a couple of witnesses with different partial tag numbers.
[8:27] These guys were pros. They had stole the tag off a similar car. It was a huge dead end, but it took so much effort to follow that lead. This was a time, well, you know, it was just tell times. You couldn’t sit down in front of the computer and do anything because there weren’t computers. You know, that was a lead that we worked on. We also got a lead very early on that put us on to the Dixie Mafia, and those were some bad guys. The main guy, or the guy that was suggested as a shooter, resembled a composite drawing. We had an artist do a composite, and they were great composites. But somebody said, hey, that looks like Pat Early, Dixie Mafia guy. And he was the kind of guy that he would travel to do violence, got involved in labor disputes, things of that nature. And he lived down in southern Oklahoma. The other guy was believed to be a bondsman in Oklahoma City. We took off on that lead and I spent close to.
[9:55] A couple months off and on three or four days a week in Oklahoma City we did surveillance on these guys we’re trying to catch them up short doing something they were also dealing some, or smuggling some pretty good quantities of drugs we worked on that for with the state narcotics unit for months until we finally got them dirty with a pretty good load of drugs.
[10:29] That’s interesting, Mike, how you start in a murder investigation, and I’ve seen this happen here. You start in a murder investigation, and all of a sudden, you know, somebody, something else comes in that may have something to do with it and may not, but then you get sidetracked onto that, then it looks good. And you stay on that for a while and then you have to come back. When you go to Boston, you have very little leads. You’ve got this car and this composites and a bunch of other dead ends that weren’t that. Did you have anything at that point in time that led you to believe that this reached outside of Oklahoma City or in that area? No, we had nothing. I mean, we had just a few phone calls. Other people knew more about our case and how it hooked to Boston than we did. There was no way to research it.
[11:26] What about Roger Wheeler? What about Roger Wheeler? Did you know about his connection to the High Lie down in Florida at that point in time? He was a big businessman, but he had invested in this world highlight business in Florida.
[11:41] When we started looking at this thing, of course, the brass was making decisions. Of course, that never helps out when you’re a detective trying to find the truth and the brass stick who knows in it. But the brass sat down with the FBI. They said, hey, this Dixie Mafia lead looks pretty good. And we’re going to follow that lead. We know about Wheeler and this parimutuel gambling business.
[12:21] Highline, which if people don’t know what that is, if they ever watched the first of Miami Vice, there was a spot in the trailer on that. And it was filmed at World Highlight down in Miami, and these guys have these big baskets hooked to their arms, and they’re on a court with a granite wall, and they catch this ball with this basket, and then with the weight or force of their entire body, they hurl this very hard ball called a palata up against this wall. And they’re basically playing handball and you know the crowd sits behind the screen there’s huge amounts of money bet on that too.
[13:15] Yes, there was a lot of money. Roger Wheeler had taken some of his money that he’d made in these other businesses and bought this whole High Lie organization, World High Lie, which ran the games. And then also, were they involved in the parimutuel betting on that and the gambling on that? Yes. World High Lie had five, they call them frontons. They’re about the size of a pretty good-sized indoor arena. And there are four of them in Florida, and there was one in Hartford, Connecticut. We stuck our nose into it and started looking at it. And the brass says, hey, we made a deal with the FBI. The FBI is going to handle all the potential organized crime leads. And you guys stick on this stuff local. Or nearly local. Didn’t like it at all. You know, I was a 25-year-old kid. Yeah, what are you going to do? Now, you had a call from the Massachusetts Highway Patrol. I interrupted you back then. And this is going to start leading you outside of Tulsa back to Florida and to Boston. So what was that about?
[14:34] Yeah, we went up there, and they told us about this Irish mob. It’s a loose-knit organized crime group. They said, here’s some guys to take a look at. Because I was coordinating a deal where we were…
[14:56] Going through boxes and boxes of paper records from every hotel in Tulsa, looking for something that stood out, maybe a tag number or an out-of-state reference to where somebody came from that we would follow up on those leads. They gave us some names for us to look for also, like somebody used their true name, checking into a hotel where they’re doing a mob hit. But I did what I was told. I was buried in boxes of paper when I wasn’t down in Oklahoma City chasing these drug dealers. You know, this Pat Earley, he worked for a guy that bought bad debt markers from, oh, I think it was Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. And he’d go out and break legs and stuff.
[16:05] Here we had two different angles, or actually even more than that, because Mr. Wheeler was a complicated man and was involved in a lot of businesses. There was a lot of stuff going on. I was like a kid in a toy store with all these things. You know, here I’m chasing the drug smuggler. Here I’m chasing the guy. And let me tell this about Pat Early and this Dixie Mafia. And the Dixie Mafia were responsible for shooting up Buford Pusser and killing Buford Pusser’s wife.
[16:43] Buford Pusser was the McNary County, Tennessee sheriff that they made a movie of. Called walking tall yeah and so they shot him up killed his wife i mean there was just so many crimes that that we were coming across that uh i can speak for myself we lacked focus because there’s so much stuff going on uh i still wanted uh i was still a little bit upset about the fbi was going to handle the highlight angle, but checking for airplanes. This guy that Pat Earley worked for, he owned a company that specialized in outfitting airplanes for international drug smuggling. And, I mean, you couldn’t spit without hitting some other motive.
[17:41] You know how that goes. You just get in the crowd. How did you get your focus back, and how did you end up on this highlight connection? Was that because of the FBI or because of the Boston-Massachusetts Highway Patrol? How did you get back to that? Well, we got involved with the state police in Boston a little bit. We didn’t know how we could do this. Boston was, you know, they said, well, we’ll check and see. And if anything comes up, we’ll tell you. Well, then we got hooked up with the Connecticut State Police.
[18:20] Who were overseeing the investigations on Highline in Connecticut, where Wheeler owned a facility. So I was still just on the fringes of Highline. And then in the fall, I believe it was, of 81, Dick and I are sitting at our desk one evening. Somebody barges into the detective vision, told the receptionist that, hey, I want to see the detective who’s working my dad’s murder case. My name’s David Wheeler. They called me back there and said, this irate guy wants to talk to you. So I did that. I brought him back to the bullpen. We sat down. I’ve been waiting for you to come talk to me, but all that’s been coming out of the woodwork is FBI agents. I said, well, we were told that the FBI would handle you as their source of information. They haven’t really said very much about it. We have meetings with them, but nothing really comes out. I think World High got my dad killed, and I think a retired FBI agent was involved in it. And I’ve told the FBI that.
[19:39] And they won’t listen to me. So here I am. My psychiatrist told me to come talk to you. Now this Wheeler, his son, he helped you write that book. He had some input
[19:52] into that book, correct? Oh, he had a lot of input into this book. So in that book, you’re going to have the personal side. You’re going to have the law enforcement side of the murder of Roger Wheeler. Yes. Okay. We found, as we started dealing with him, that Mr. Wheeler was just a busy millionaire businessman, self-made businessman. You know, he might have had his flaws, but he wasn’t a crook. He had legitimate businesses. He just had made so much money on a pipeline business that he had a big, big amount of money that he could invest. And so he had gone to somebody that he had dealt with before, the Bank of Boston, and said, Hey, find me something to invest in that I’d make money and just bring me whatever it is. And I’ll take a look at it. They offered him a casino. They offered Hi-Li. So he started looking at this, and he had sent his son, David.
[21:07] Down to look at these businesses and put together some sort of computer program. David did, and it came back that Highline had the most potential to make money, and the tax incentives were there in that business. So his dad said, I’m going to buy this one. That was in the late 70s. What had happened, the business was run by a guy from Boston, a CPA. It turned out that he hired several retired FBI agents, one of them was a fellow by the name of Paul Rico, to allegedly keep the business clean from organized crime. Paul Rico was a legendary FBI agent that had developed many mob informants while they were trying to stamp out the Italian mob. And so as he was nearing retirement, he had moved to Florida for his last year or two, was hired by World High Line before Mr. Wheeler owned it. and that was something that attracted Mr. Wheeler. He felt safe with these FBI agents working there. And then immediately it started not.
[22:35] Making the money that they thought it should make. It was a real, real problem. Then it turns out that a runner, a world highlight, a guy named John Callahan, a Connecticut State Police figured out that he was hooked up with the Winter Hill game in Boston. He had to resign, and he was replaced by his business partner, a guy named Dick Donovan, another CPA.
[23:04] Wheeler was stuck with this guy because as a part of the Bank of Boston and proving that loan, they said, we want Donovan to stay on as president. By early 1981, things were just not looking good in the business. He was arguing a lot with Donovan. David Wheeler had planned to fire Donovan and Paul Rico, and that was just relayed from Wheeler to his son just a couple weeks before the murder.
[23:39] Now, Mike, this Paul Rico, I was looking up a little bit about him. By the time he retired or maybe shortly after, it came out that he was involved with an informant named Joe the Animal of Barboza who had done a murder of a guy named Teddy Deegan.
[23:57] But Rico wanted a guy named Peter Lamone and three other members of the Italian La Cosa Nostra mob to go to jail for this Teddy Deegan, and Rico stood back and allowed Barboza to perjure himself and let these guys go down. Now, in the end, they’ll end up getting released from prison when it all comes out several years later and get like a, I don’t know, a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the FBI and the Department of Justice because of that case. So he was, you know, he had a history and plus Boston FBI, you know, that’s the place where John Connolly, the FBI agent who came along after RICO.
[24:41] Uh, uh, was, was there, we say Rico like Rico law, but H Paul Rico and John Conley was a kind of a junior agent that then moved in and had all these informants and the Irish mob continued going after, going after the Italian mob. And then he ends up going to prison behind all that. So that was, uh, I tell you that Boston FBI was a, uh, was a snake’s nest. Uh, it was not good at all. And so Rico is now working in the Winter Hill Gang, who he’s been protecting and using his informants over the years to get the Italian mob. They’re they’re siphoning money out of that. They’re what are they embezzling money out of the High Line, World High Line? For the sake of the charge, we proved that they were just trying to take control.
[25:32] World High Life, so they could really get the money. We just hadn’t figured out how the money was coming out at that time. That was a big hang-up on filing charges. I mean, this thing, we’re fast-forwarding ahead close to 20 years until we get to this point. But, you know, we suspected Rico was involved. May of 1982, a couple of guys get gunned down in Boston. One of them’s named Brian Halloran. The other was Michael Donahue, who was just giving Halloran a ride. And Donahue’s dad was sergeant on the Boston Police Department.
[26:12] We didn’t hear about it. Nobody told us about this.
[26:16] Until finally, a reporter called the police department and said, hey, you guys need to know this. That’s how we learned about it. And that’s how we dove into the Boston angle at this time. Wait a minute. Remind me, how did that murder in Boston connect to the Hi-Li and Roger Wheeler? Right. Well, I found out after a couple months, Brian Halloran had gone to the FBI and said, hey, I got offered this hit out in Tulsa. I got thinking about it, and I decided I didn’t want to do it. It was a hit for Paul Rico. He wanted Wheeler dead. John Callahan, the former president of World High Line, wanted Wheeler dead. He declined the hit. They gave him $20,000, said get your mouth shut. And he got jammed up in another murder in January of 1982 in Boston. And that was his ticket was the Wheeler murder. An FBI agent might have been the guy behind it. So the FBI never told us that. By this time, we had figured out, of course, the FBI was screwing us over every day. And, you know, we learned that from David Wheeler back in the fall of 81.
[27:44] And the police department told me, he said, get to know this guy, figure out if he’s crazy or what, because he had a passion. His dad was dead, murdered, and the FBI wouldn’t listen to him. And so he turned to us, and the police department turned to me, and I was the rookie detective closer to David Wheeler’s age. Dick Bishop was older and had no patience, as we all get.
[28:18] But I’ve got to say, Dick was a great guy. We came back after meeting with Wheeler for days, and we met with the brass, the chief, and everybody else said, hey, the FBI’s screwing us. We got to get into this ourselves because the FBI is hiding this stuff from us. Within a couple months, Halloran got over. We went to Boston. You know, we met with all these state police and stuff up there, and they were doing their best to help us as much as they could. But this was a rat’s nest of corruption and disputes between agencies. The FBI hated everybody. Everybody else hated the FBI. Nobody could trust anybody. They were trying to do wiretaps. They were getting burned on wiretaps, you know, against these Winter Hill monsters. So they said, I don’t know how you’re going to solve this. So I said, well, let’s just go to what they called a strike force prosecutor that handled his section, handled all the organized crime prosecutions, federal prosecutions in New England. They said, well, he’s got to be involved in this deal with Howard.
[29:39] He’d be the guy. I said, well, let’s go. Let’s go talk to him. And little did I know that in Boston, you could drink a couple beers sometimes. A shift and get by with it they didn’t have that problem so we had a couple beers at lunchtime.
[29:55] And we went over to the federal courthouse and said hey we’re here to to meet with a fellow by the name of jeremiah o’sullivan who was the strike force the head uh strike force prosecutor department of justice so it went in there we were getting stonewalled by him taking notes like crazy, throwing stuff at him, saying we had information that the corruption had infiltrated into the FBI in Boston. John Conley, like he said, this guy was around during Rico’s time. He said, well, Rico was connected with the Winnerville game. Well, we know what that means when you’re a cop. You know, if somebody says they’re connected to something else, That means they’re part of them. And he said, you know, Rico liked to carouse and gamble and play cards to these mobsters when he was on the job. So I’m hearing this. I mean, I’m a young kid. At this point in time, I didn’t know how to, even that people fix tickets occasionally.
[31:02] And I’m hearing them talk about carousing with mobsters and stuff. And I said, well, I just want to know who made the decision to cut Brian Howard loose and not tell us about it. He said, well, that was my decision. By this time, I was just getting pissed. I said, well, that was a bad decision. He’s dead. It’s our case. Who gave you the right to make a decision about our case? It just went downhill from there. Myself and a couple other detectives, wonderful reports, which quoted him verbatim. Which later came back to bite him as we both were testifying before Congress. My reports caught him in a lie. He both got charged with lying to Congress. He tried to turn the tables on me, and a good police report’s the only thing that saved me. So for the young cops out there, making a good police report is paramount to what you do when you’re trying to prove a murder. So I told him, I said, well, we’re up here and we’re going to find John Callahan, the former president of World Highline. I said, we’re going to make him snitch. I have no idea why I said it that way.
[32:19] And everybody else was looking at me like, what the hell are you saying? I can imagine. I mean, I had no business to open my mouth in that meeting as a young guy. So we were looking for Callahan up in Boston. Went everywhere. Had a drink. About every bar we went to, we had a drink for about three days, which I’m sorry I’m saying that. You know, I just followed the crowd. We stayed there for a week or so. We headed back to Tulsa. So I walked in my door and I am walking in my door with my suitcase in my hand and the phone was ringing. So I answered him and somebody said, hey, is this Detective Mycuff? Yes, sir. He said, are you looking for John Callahan? I said, I just came in the door from looking and we’ve been up in Boston looking for him for about a week. And he goes, well, I’ve got him. I said, well, great. Where are you? He said, I’m at the Miami International Airport. He had introduced himself as a detective from the Metro, dead police, John Parmenter. And he said, I’m at the airport.
[33:35] I got him in the trunk of his car, and he’s got a dime on his chest. And he was all shot up, and he’s dead. Oh, wow. The first thing that came to my mind is, you know, I just told the head of the strike force, this high-level Department of Justice prosecutor, that we were going to make him a snitch. And less than a week later, he’s dead in the trunk of a car in Miami. I mean, I just, it just about knocked me over. I felt like I was potentially responsible for his death. I didn’t like the feeling at all. And as a 25-year-old kid, 26, this was just too much for me to process. So I immediately went down to the station, met with the chief and all the brass. Dick Bishop, obviously.
[34:27] He’d come from home, too, because we’d just got home. So I said, hey, we got a problem. They said, it sounds like you need to be in Miami. So we started putting together a trip to Miami, met the detective that was down there. When I got that phone call, I believe on August 3, 1982, when they said Callahan was dead, I said, well, let me talk to the detective that’s going to work the case. They said, well, he’s on his way to Boston. Can you get a message to him? I was thinking, get a hold of him at a hotel or whatever. They said, well, he’s not going to be at a hotel. He’s made arrangements to stay at an FBI agent’s house that’s working on his case up there in Boston. I said, oh, my God, he cannot stay at an FBI agent’s house. They’re in this up to their eyeballs. Turned out, made a handwritten note, laid it on his desk, knowing he’s probably not going to be back for a week. And that’s where that note stayed until he had spent a week with the FBI up there you know he was a great guy Shelton Merritt we called him Grits.
[35:37] So I met him down in Miami and, He’s just shaking his head, and I’m shaking my head. Everybody’s shaking their head. We’re not, we have no clue what we’re going to do. At this point in time, the brass of all these agencies had just pretty much given us carte blanche and said, go do what you need to do. And Dick, being a lot wiser than I was, said, well, they just set us up for failure, and And so we’re going to wind up getting screwed on this deal because they’re not going to take any blame for anything that goes wrong. And without a doubt, something’s going to go wrong. And boy, was that true. We dug into this. We got everybody to come out to Tulsa and have a meeting. We arranged an informal task force amongst Miami, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Connecticut State Police, and the Massachusetts State Police. We were just shaking our heads trying to figure out what to do.
[36:42] Spending taxpayers’ money like it was going out of style. Everybody’s flying around here and there. We kind of put the logistics together, who was going to investigate what, who we were going to target, try to get some information out of. Within a couple months after that, the FBI gave us a call, and they’re dealing with David Wheeler and saying, oh, this isn’t going to be connected to the FBI. We’re going to drop this case. And then the next thing you know, we would do something, and they would come back into the case because they were trying to figure out what we were doing.
[37:21] And so they decided they wanted to bring all the detectives together from all these states to Oklahoma. They said they wanted to have an information-sharing meeting. They put us up in Nice’s Hotel, put everybody else up in Nice’s Hotel in Tulsa. I mean, the food and the liquor slowed for about three days. We were just trying to avoid the FBI, talk with all these guys in this little informal task force. And so finally, on the last day of this meeting, which was held at the federal courthouse here in Tulsa, a guy from FBI headquarters, and he was a very high-level guy named Sean McLean, stood up and said, we have to know everything incriminating that you have on Paul Rico. By this time, if we’d had rocks or bottles or something, they would have been thrown at him. And we said, we got nothing to tell you because we can’t trust you. He said, well, here’s the deal. Paul Rico…
[38:37] Came out of retirement, and did a favor for the FBI. He went undercover to a corrupt federal judge by the name of L.C. Hastings, and we’re going to arrest him, L.C. Hastings. We have to turn everything that you have over in discovery.
[39:01] To whoever Hastings’ lawyer is going to be. So, I mean, that disbanded that meeting as quick as it could. Well, I said, we’ve got nothing to say to you. People left. I mean, people were going to a phone trying to get their airline reservations changed, go get a suitcase. I mean, it was just, it looked like a bunch of guys running from a stolen car after a pursuit.
[39:31] I mean, these guys just ran out of there. great analogy it turns out that he did arrest alcee hastings and he was acquitted he later became a u.s senator in florida yeah so i mean uh the the high level stuff that that we were dealing with it just put a stain on what’s going on i mean there was no way i mean i was i was looking at all this stuff and i said there is no way that i am smart enough even being this room, I probably need to go back to patrol. Mike, at this point in time, I mean, you’re almost like stymied. That was ingenious on their part. Now, if I see a conspiracy theory here, I could see that Rico knew people were after him and he wanted to know what you knew and you weren’t speaking to the FBI so he could volunteer to go work a case on a corrupt judge and then have to know everything you got on him for discovery i mean that’s they could potentially had got court orders from a judge in that criminal trial to say you know bring it to tulsa and all the other different.
[40:45] Jurisdictions and say you have to give us that and you had to give us then he would have known so it’s uh i don’t know that’s a conspiracy theory that maybe it’s a leap too far it’s pretty sophisticated, but I think it’s possible, don’t you? Oh, yes, sir, Gary.
[41:03] My head was spinning. I can imagine. I went to my dad March 14th, 1983. I went to my dad and I said, I think I got to step back, maybe volunteer to go back to a police car because I’m in way over my head. My dad said, no, there’s no way you can step back because you are in way over your head and you can’t run from this. You know, he said, you’re right in the middle of a cesspool of corruption. You can’t.
[41:36] You can’t do this. You can’t walk away from it. Well, that was the last time I talked to my dad because the next afternoon he was taking a nap and he got a heart attack in his sleep. That is something I detail in this book, along with many other things. But, you know, when we were writing the book, I talked about that story. And not until then did I really soak in that my dad’s funeral was on St. Patrick’s Day and I was right in the middle of all this Irish corruption, Irish mob. A friend of mine just said, hey, that was a sign you were just too stupid to realize it. You know, I believe he’s right. From that point on, I never thought about leaving this case. Of course, a few years later, this case caused me a little bit of a divorce.
[42:37] And I needed to make a little bit more money, so I promoted to sergeant, but I had made a deal with the brass. When I made sergeant that I’d have to go back to patrol for a little bit to learn how to be a sergeant, They’d bring them back in to run the homicide squad when it all worked out. Can’t give away everything that’s in the book. I know there’s a lot more that’s going to happen to get to Paul Rico, and you end up getting to him. And so, guys, you’ve got to get this book. Now, I have one last question here about this George Monterano, who eventually will admit to this murder. And eventually it comes out that this murder does tie back to the Winter Hill gang, And the guy that did it admitted to it and is out there today running around free. Yeah, it’s John Mariano. Boy, there are so many stories, just like you said, Jerry, so many stories in this book.
[43:38] It’s just so hard to share this trivia that comes through here. In 1995, I had learned that some young state policemen who started working a loan sharking case came up with enough to charge Whitey Bulger with some racketeering. So I heard about that, and I said, well, I’m going to make it. I took 60 pounds of reports. I mean, I made, I just stood in front of a copy machine for a couple days. And I had reports that were Boston Intel guys from back in the 70s that they had to purge. And so they were no longer in, but I didn’t have to purge them. I didn’t know them.
[44:38] So I took all these reports up there. I had a suitcase with a roller attachment to it. I rolled in these reports to the U.S. Attorney’s Office to a guy named Fred Wyshack. I’m from Tulsa, and I’m working this case, and I just want you to know that you’re getting ready to step into knee-deep corruption. So I got these reports that I’d like to share with you because you’re going to come across my case in it. So it turns out that, you know, we started working with them a little bit back in the late 80s. I had a call from some TV people. And they said, hey, we’re from a TV show. Joe, we’d like to put you on our pilot show, our very first one, and it’s called Unsolved Mysteries. We’d like to feature your case. You know, that was a time when there were just, you know, three major networks.
[45:47] There wasn’t a reality show. There weren’t all these crime shows, podcasts, anything. We went up and down the ladder on that. Roger Wheeler’s widow tried to block us from doing that. chief made a good decision and said, we’re going to do it. So in that, I learned of John Margarano. It even went back to some information back when our first trip to Boston in 1981.
[46:14] So Margarano had a felony warrant out for a horse race fixing conspiracy that they had worked up on him in the late 70s. So, um, I showed his picture on this Unsolved Mysteries and, uh.
[46:37] That was probably 86 or 87. Years later, in 1995.
[46:44] After this thing started unraveling up in Boston, somebody’s watching a rerun of Unsolved Mysteries, a fellow down in South Florida. And he sees me show this picture of Marano. And he said, hey, he don’t go by that name, but that guy is a loan shark. And I’ve paid some money to him. That’s how Marano’s arrest came about, off of that guy calling in and saying that. I wish he had called me, but he had called the state police. That’s how Marano got arrested. Once he gets arrested, I go visit him down in Latuna, Texas. He was staying in what they called the Veloce Suites. It was a suite of rooms where Joe Vellacci lived out his life when he became a witness against the mob. I guess they used this suite for the most important witnesses that they have need protection for and whatever. But, I mean, Margarano had his own small little kitchen. He had access to a toll-free phone, and he had private access to the rooftop exercise area. It was something. It was better than the first apartment I lived in.
[48:09] So, you know, me and Marno kind of hit it off. He told me, he said, you know, Unsolved Mysteries came out in the late 80s. He said, I was in Hawaii on vacation watching TV and I saw you come on holding up my picture.
[48:26] And he said, I knew right then and there, he said, I’ve been worried about this murder, but I knew right then and there we were going to meet someday. You know, it was interesting.
[48:38] Marano, I mean, I talked to him, you know, multiple times, but the first time I talked to him, I spent three days with him. He had a story that went for decades, you know, his involvement in organized crime, how he got involved in organized crime. As we were working through this, we brought him out to Tulsa, but yes, Marshall’s dead.
[49:02] And we had a small army put together. Me and him were in the car. I said, you know, this is 20 years almost after this happened. And I said, tell me what you can remember. He said, well, let’s go out there to that country club. As we’re going, you know, he’s saying, turn left here up at this light. And it’s right up here on the right. And as you pull in, there’s a garden shack that nobody was at the day it happened. And here’s where we parked. I mean, and what I did was I just went through, and every sentence or word that he said that would prove that this guy was the guy, every bit of corroboration, I totaled him up. There were 167 points of corroboration that only the killer would know. So, you know, then we went past the Wheeler’s house and he goes, yeah, I didn’t like this one right here because their circle drive kind of comes out onto a busier street. I didn’t want to get jammed up, you know, sitting there waiting to get out in traffic. And, oh, here was this parking space at Telex. It had its name on it.
[50:28] And sure enough, it did at the time. and he goes, oh, and there’s a Catholic school across the street and I didn’t like this one because I’m Catholic and I didn’t want to do it right in front of a Catholic school. I mean, just stuff like that. Yeah. That really showed me, I mean, by this time I’m kind of a decent investigator. So I’m seeing the level of a report that I was doing And comparing it to a level of a report that, say, the FBI or some other agency was doing, they were just pounding square pegs into round holes on their cases, and we were intricate with facts and details. I mean, that was…
[51:17] Something I really recognized at the time. Did Monterano, did he then give up Rico? Yes, he did give up Rico. And he gave up Stevie, the rifleman, Flemmie. He told us that Joe McDonald was the driver. And I tell you, if you ever watch that movie, Bullet, Joe McDonald became close to a movie maker. And the movie maker was making a mob movie. And so he wanted somebody to tell him what it was like to be in the mob, so McDonald told him. Eventually, that guy made a movie called Bullet. And in that big chase scene in Bullet, Joe McDonald was the passenger in the car being chased by Steve McQueen in the movie. He was the actor. The car getting chased, he was the guy with the shotgun. That was Joe McDonald. I’ll be darned. So what happened to him? Did he go down behind him? Well, he died in 1982. Okay.
[52:19] He, uh, he got caught coming back from, uh, Florida on, uh, Amtrak. Uh, he got caught, somebody snitched him off on the way, but he got caught in New York and he had a machine gun in a suitcase. Case, me and Dick Bishop, we had our bags packed and getting ready to head out the door to the airport. And I got a call from the cops up in New York City, and they said, you can stay at home because he ain’t talking to anybody.
[52:52] And we asked him if he would talk to you guys, and he said, I’m especially not going to talk to those guys.
[52:58] So he was a getaway driver on the Wheeler case. So Margot Long gave up Rico, gave up Flemmie. Finally, we got Flemmie to talk. Crob-ranked the Rico story.
[53:14] And we decided we had enough to arrest Rico. It took me forever to get the DA in Tulsa to file a charge. A little side issue that’s in the book, I had, over the years, had heard that there was a guy in Boston that actually put the guns on a bus. And Marano and McDonald picked up the guns at a bus station in downtown Tulsa to use. So I tried for several years to get that guy to talk to me. And he had a lawyer, and I talked to a lawyer every couple months and me the same answer. So finally, the last time that I tried, I said, hey, tell that guy. And this guy was a very huge Irish supporter. He had been arrested for smuggling guns to the IRA in Ireland.
[54:19] And he’s something. And there’s a bit about him in the book. I said, hey, tell Pat that my great-great-granddad came from Ireland through Boston and made his way out this way to Kansas before he slipped down into Indian territory. Just tell him that my great-great-granddad’s buried in the Indian cemetery about 20 miles from my house. And he came over from Dublin. and within an hour.
[54:54] Literally he said hey as soon as you can get out here he’ll talk to you what we did it’s myself and my partner at that time we got the chief to make a phone call we got sworn in as u.s marshals so we headed out to that that was the final piece that we needed to get the da to file a charge we had a deal with da that he was going to keep this under wraps nobody was going to know about it until we got there and got in place to arrest Paul Rico. We went out there, got with the Marshal’s Task Force out. We all went to Rico’s Miami Beach condominium about six in the morning. We just confirmed that the warrant was active, which is all good. So I beat on the door. And over the years, I had kind of gone toe-to-toe with Rico at least half a dozen times. So I’m beating on his door at 6 in the morning. He said, who is it? I said, hey, it’s Sergeant Mike Uffman Toss Place. I heard his wife say, what do you need? We’ve talked to you enough times.
[56:06] And I said, well, you need to open the door. So I opened the door. I got a warrant for first-degree murder. He got under arrest for the murder of Roger Wheeler. And he kind of stumbled back to the chair, fell down. and he was in his boxer shorts and stuff. I said, you need to go in your bedroom. We’ll take you in there and put some clothes on because you’re going to jail. I told his wife, I said, does he have some medicine he needs to take with him? He goes, yeah, he’s diabetic. And so she got a handful of pill bottles, put them in a sack. I said, well, if he’s diabetic, he might need to eat something for breakfast because you might not get some at the jail. And his wife said, hey, put your World Highlight cashmere sweater on. They’ll get a kick out of that. And I said, well, we’re going to get a kick out of it. But this is no joke. This is a big deal that’s happening here. You need to realize that.
[57:09] So we took him to Dade County jail. We go in there, and that smells like a third-world country in there. I mean, you know, it’s a big city jail. Yeah. We’re standing in line waiting to get booked in. There is some sort of foreigner standing right in front of us, and he had a goiter on his neck about the size of a cantaloupe, and it was leaking pus. Oh, my gosh. And he smelled terrible, like he hadn’t had a bath for weeks.
[57:41] Rico turned around and looked at him. I mean, he said, are you really doing this to me? And I said, well, you kind of did it to yourself. As soon as we get you up to the front of the line, we’ll be through with you. And I’ll see you back in Tulsa. Kind of ends up sad for H. Paul Rico. He will eventually die while in custody, I guess, after he got to – he had bad health problems at the time, and he’ll eventually die in custody when he gets down to Tulsa, if I read this right. But I’m filling out the booking sheet in a room at Dade County Homicide Squad on Rico. I’m just asking questions, high weight, all that kind of stuff, and he kind of sneers at me. How old are your kids? And it stopped me in with tracks. And I looked up at him and I said, what the F did you say? And he said, how old are your effing kids? And I said, look, old man, I don’t have a problem.
[58:47] Hitting you or choking you out because you’re not going to threaten my kids. So that was the end of the band.
[58:55] Interesting. Interesting comment by him. I tell you what, I just talked about this in a show not too long ago, those kind of a veiled threats that mob guys do that you can’t really say it’s a threat by the words alone. Yes, sir. You would have to know the context, the relationship between the two people talking. and you have to know a whole lot more than the threat in that. How old are your kids? You know, we had a guy here in Kansas City that just read off the names and ages of a guy’s kids.
[59:26] You know, he can say, well, that’s all I’m doing, just reading off the guy’s, you know, names of his kids and their ages. You know, I didn’t mean anything by it. I mean, that is so mob. That is the epitome of the veiled mob threat, their skillful mob threat. Interesting. All right. Well, I guess I got it across to Rico that I wasn’t happy with him because he wound up crapping in his pants in that interview room. Yeah, it’s a sad end for him and his family, but you play, you got to pay is what I find. run an all-volunteer co-gaze task force for sheriff’s office. And I tell you, when you walk up to somebody 20 years after they did something and you’re able to arrest them, it’s better than having a foot chase running down a serial killer. I mean, it’s for something they thought they got away with decades before.
[1:00:26] You know, and those families, they sure appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah. And guys, let me tell you something. There’s, I didn’t think there’s anything better than getting into foot chase and catching the guy and putting the cuffs on him, but that’s probably is better.
[1:00:43] Yes, sir. It’s fun. All right. Mike Huff, former Tulsa PD. And what’s the name of the book, Mike? Remind me again.
[1:00:51] Killing My Father. And it’s the inside story of the biggest FBI corruption scandal in history. And it’s by the son, Mike Wheeler, the son of the man who was killed. Yeah, David Wheeler Me and a guy A published author by the name of Larry Yadin He has written about 14 books We met him as he got in touch with us While he was writing a dual biography On Mr. Wheeler and Whitey Bulger Who both grew up in Boston On different sides of town At the same time I didn’t know that, yes that’s a good book too it’s called One Murder Too Many because out of all the murders that Bulger did, and all the crimes this was the one that brought him down it was one murder too many for him.
[1:01:57] Mike Huff, Mike thanks so much for coming on the show, I really appreciate it, well thank you for having me well guys that’s been quite a story hadn’t it I tell you what, there’s nothing like hearing the real nuts and bolts, the background of a good long homicide investigation. There are so many little bits and pieces that have to come together. And a guy, the detective has to have this great memory in order to when you get somebody that’s confessing or you think might have done it. They start giving you details about that crime scene that nobody else could know. That’s when you know you got the right guy. So so this has been a great show and a really great guest. So check that book out. And don’t forget, I like to ride motorcycles. So watch out for motorcycles when you’re out there on the streets, driving your big F-150s and your vans and all those kinds of things.
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