The FBI got busted for intentionally altering evidence and the defense team for Proud Boys member Dominic Pezzola has already filed a motion to dismiss his case. Here’s another big story you won’t get any information on from the network media. The Judge put the whole trial on hold while he sorts out what just surprisingly happened.
FBI shreds what they don’t like
The trial went sideways on Thursday, after “classified FBI messages” were revealed in court. Defense attorneys weren’t supposed to have them in the first place. Besides being classified, the internal bureau communications document how Federal Bureau of Instigation agents destroy evidence. It seems to be routine procedure.
Hardly anyone is reporting on the trial of Dominic Pezzola and only Epoch times has anything to say about the real reason the Proud Boys member’s trial is on hold. He’s one of those accused with seditious conspiracy over the events of January 6, 2021.
According to defense lawyer Roger Roots, there “are a couple of emails between FBI agents casually discussing altering a document and destroying hundreds of pieces of evidence. It’s very disturbing and right now we have more questions than answers.”
The trial of Dominic Pezzola, one of the defendants of the #Jan6, 2021, Capitol breach, was paused on Thursday due to classified #FBI messages revealed in court, which the defense attorneys say show FBI agents discussing the altering of evidence. https://t.co/sCpHTFVUd0
— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) March 10, 2023
Washington District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly “paused the trial” on Thursday when the messages first surfaced. The defense team wasn’t supposed to have them but amazingly did.
The explosion went off on Wednesday during testimony of special agent Nicole Miller. During cross-examination, Nick Smith, an attorney representing co-defendant Ethan Nordean “revealed classified FBI emails that were hidden in a tab in an Excel spreadsheet.”
As soon as Roots saw what they said, he “used this evidence to support a motion to dismiss the charges against Pezzola” and filed it the same day.
Monitoring lawyer calls
Another shocker came out in the motion to dismiss. Not only were agents destroying and altering evidence to suit their needs, “Pezzola’s team said the emails showed that the FBI was monitoring communications between Nordean and his lawyer, violating the Sixth Amendment, which prohibits invasions of the right to counsel.” That’s not good.
“In the Nordean case, confidential attorneys-client trial/defense strategy and position was wrongfully obtained by the government, about which was overheard, shared, utilized.” Part of that was “338 items of evidence” which had been “ordered to be ‘destroyed.‘”
Nordean’s lawyers had more information on that. In a filing on their side, they note that “Miller said in one correspondence that ‘[her] boss assigned [her] 338 items of evidence [she has] to destroy.’” They have another one showing an agent requesting Miller to “go into [a] CHS [informant] report” that Miller “just put [together] and edit out that [the agent] was present.”
A motion to dismiss has been filed this morning by the lawyers for Dominic Pezzola in the Proud Boys J6 trial on grounds of the government withholding exculpatory evidence. pic.twitter.com/CRojdlAen3
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) March 9, 2023
The FBI isn’t allowed to do those things and the judge isn’t going to be happy about it. The fact that all those messages are classified secret makes things even worse.
Miller actually admitted in the secret emails “fabricating evidence and following orders to destroy hundreds of items of evidence.” The government “obtained information that benefited itself in the trial, causing substantial prejudice to each of the defendants, including Pezzola.” The FBI really blew it this time.
“If justice means anything, it requires this case to be dismissed.” Along with all the courtroom madness, Tucker Carlson unveiled a whole bunch of footage showing that the Capitol Police weren’t trying to enforce the law on January 6, as much as they were into playing tour guide and posing for selfies with the barbarians.
