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« NBC, David Gregory, and why he wasn't prosecuted | Main | More on Jay Dobyns case »

Unsealed court files in Jay Dobyn's case full of bombshells

Posted by David Hardy · 23 January 2015 03:02 PM

He's the agent who infiltrated the Hell's Angels, had BATF thoroughly backstab him, and sued the agency. Much of the court files were sealed, but were recently unsealed. Here's the local news story on what the reporter found in the formerly sealed files:

The judge accused the government attorneys of perpetrating "a fraud on the court."

Dobyns' house was burned, and he argued it was arson, carried out by Hell's Angels, and successful because BATF had blown his cover and denied him protection. It turns out that a Justice Dept. attorney in his civil case told BATF not to reopen the investigation of the arson, lest its finding help Dobyns in his suit against BATF. That was concealed from the judge until the trial.

""An ATF agent who testified in this case may have been threatened by another witness during the trial." Justice Department attorneys ordered the agent not to report the threat to the court or he would face repercussions, [Judge] Allegra said."

When the judge entered his ruling, he ordered that the seven Justice attorneys who had handled the civil case were not to file any further documents in it -- essentially, they were banned from the court.

Dobyns' attorney complained that he had been under "extreme surveillance for the last sixty days, both fixed and moving..." and that his house and car had been broken into, although no property was taken.

A former BATF agent who testified for Dobyns attested that he, too, was followed after he left the attorney's office.

This is DOJ's Watergate... or worse. Attorneys and agency officials concealing evidence, secretly threatening witnesses, agency surveillance of attorneys and witnesses. All over a civil lawsuit -- can you imagine what they'd do over something big?

· BATFE

3 Comments | Leave a comment

Frank Masotti | January 23, 2015 6:01 PM | Reply

And people wonder why both I do not trust and think the ATF(E) should be closed pertinently, and NO agency take over it's duties.

Granny Grunch | January 24, 2015 6:38 AM | Reply

It could be dangerous for anyone to make negative comments about this agency..but then,again, no comments are necessary because the records speak for themselves.

wrangler5 | January 24, 2015 10:24 AM | Reply

I predict there will be at least 25,000 pardons issued by the current occupant of the White House when he leaves office in a couple of years, and that all federal employees accused of any crimes of which said occupant approves (whether he ordered 'em or not) will get one. Until then, it's just stonewall time.

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