Brady Violations — Government Suppressed Federal Informant Evidence

Before Ryan's guilty plea, the defense filed asking the government to disclose whether "1% Watchdog" — the entity that assigned Ryan rescue missions — and Marcus DiPaola — the man inside Ryan's rescue organization who filmed the 2018 video that put Ryan on the Ellen DeGeneres Show — were government assets. AUSA Douglas Brasher denied knowing 1% Watchdog and doubled down that Marcus DiPaola was not a federal agent, not affiliated with the FBI, not affiliated with the feds. A year and a half after Ryan was sentenced, while he was in federal prison, a fellow detainee surfaced a public-record archive (https://archive.ph/jYVkv) in which Marcus DiPaola self-identifies as having worked for the FBI Chicago field office from 2016 to 2019 — the exact years he was embedded in Ryan's rescue work — and openly discusses having been hot-mic'd and wired in 2020, during the same period he and Ryan were in communication. The pattern matters: 1% Watchdog assigned the rescues. Marcus DiPaola filmed and reported. The FBI Chicago field office handled DiPaola during 2016-2019. The federal government then prosecuted Ryan for a January 6 case that grew out of an environment the same federal apparatus had been cultivating around him for years. This is exculpatory Brady evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963). The government's on-record denials to defense were false. The Brady material was suppressed by the prosecution. Ryan pled guilty without ever knowing. The damage is now permanent — but the constitutional violation is on the record, and the entrapment-defense theory it would have supported is now a matter of public archive.