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Brady Violations — Government Suppressed Federal Informant Evidence

AUSA Douglas Brasher told the court the government had no idea who "1% Watchdog" was and that Marcus DiPaola was not a federal agent. A year and a half after Ryan was sentenced, public-record evidence surfaced of Marcus DiPaola self-identifying as having worked for the FBI Chicago field office from 2016 to 2019 — the exact years he was embedded inside Ryan's hurricane-rescue organization. Suppressed exculpatory evidence. The foundation of an entrapment defense Ryan was denied.

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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.

Officials named in the evidence

7 people named

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Civil society / disputed federal-tied entity

DC DOC

Federal informant (self-admitted)

Federal Public Defender (DC)

Suspected federal-tied entity

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia

Evidence on file

9 documents on file

Every page below is a watermarked scan from Ryan's own case file. Click any one to read it, share it, or copy the link.

Ryan7 documents

Ryan Nichols' own paperwork — grievances, motions, letters, cell notes.

Timeline - What I Remember p2 (Cammie Bowker, Zello, Jan 4-5)

exhibit · Jan 5, 2021

Timeline - What I Remember p2 (Cammie Bowker, Zello, Jan 4-5)

Page 2 of timeline. References anti-human trafficking group with Cammie Bowker; THC vape brought as goodies (medicinal card from Vegas birthday trip); added to Stop The Steal J6 Zello group by 1% Watchdog with whom Ryan worked Hurricanes Florence & Dorian SAR; left Jan 4 for DC, stayed in Virginia and Ubered into DC due to gun laws; Jan 5 went to White House to check the rally area, RSVPd for the Ellipse, brought GoPro to record self and Alex.

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Legal research notes: Speed v US, Bell v Wolfish, Mandela rules

exhibit

Legal research notes: Speed v US, Bell v Wolfish, Mandela rules

Handwritten legal research notes citing Entrapment by Estoppel; Speed v United States 562 A 2d 124 (DC 1989) DC Code 22-505 on right of citizen to defend against officers excessive force; Dr David Walls-Kaufman DC chiropractor (not charged, on video assaulting in hallway); Taylor F. Taranto; Robert Reeder picketing, registered Dem, on video assaulting police; Bell v Wolfish on pretrial release vs punishment 441 US 520; Hendrickson v Kingsley 2015 (7th Cir 2015); Nelson Mandela rules - international rules for solitary confinement.

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Co-detainee1 document

Corroborating witness statements and letters from fellow January 6 detainees.

Sean McHugh — pro se IAC motion (p.4, 12-28-21) re: Judge Bates, breakout room, Beattie article

motion · Dec 28, 2021

Sean McHugh — pro se IAC motion (p.4, 12-28-21) re: Judge Bates, breakout room, Beattie article

Page 4 of pro se IAC motion, dated 12/28/21. Items 11-14: (11) at last court date Judge Bates would not let him explain why Maria Jacob was ineffective; counsel later lied in a breakout room about the topic being jail/discovery; (12) Jacob said his mother wouldn’t be a good witness because prosecution would call her biased; (13) Jacob has no defense theory, refuses critical discovery, won’t challenge the DA; (14) Jacob said she represents him not all J6ers, so the Darren Beattie / Revolver entrapment-and-lack-of-security defense is "out of the question."

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Evidence1 document

Photographs and exhibits.

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