FBI informants have been accused of improperly coordinating with the men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, according to lawyers seeking to scrutinize the agency’s conduct in its investigation.
Lawyers for Barry Croft Jr., one of the alleged ringleaders of the kidnapping plot, argue that FBI informants Jenny Plunk and Steve Robeson had an unusual relationship with the defendant that included smoking marijuana with him and traveling to several of his militia training sessions, the attorneys told the judge earlier this week. In some cases, Plunk even shared a hotel room with Croft — raising questions about whether the FBI informant had crossed a line.
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FBI special agent Christopher Long testified that the shared room was meant to be a cost-reducing tactic, arguing that neither Croft nor Plunk had much money at the time, according to the Detroit Free Press. However, he acknowledged that he had never monitored a case in which sources of the opposite gender stayed in the same room during his time as an agent.
The details were revealed during the retrial for Croft and Adam Fox, two alleged ringleaders of a plot to kidnap Whitmer in the summer of 2020 because of her COVID-19 policies. A federal judge ordered a retrial for the two plaintiffs after a jury failed to reach a verdict in the first trial in April.
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Two other defendants, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, were previously found not guilty, renewing questions about the conduct of the confidential FBI informants who were embedded in the anti-government militia groups during the alleged conspiracy.
Defense attorneys argued during the April trial that their clients were high all the time when the alleged plot was hatched and that they would never have conspired to kidnap Whitmer had they not been pushed into doing so by government informants.
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