The January 6 Files

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1,463

days, arrest to pardon

The filings, the grievances, the 10 facilities — and the judge who said it out loud.

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108 matches for "Video": 3 grievances · 6 events · 0 people · 99 documents.

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Right to counsel & evidence

Act II — Sixth Amendment / Defense Crippled

Brady evidence withheld. Discovery withheld. Legal mail confiscated. Attorney access denied. The constitutional preconditions for any fair trial — denied. The lead grievance: AUSA Brasher's pre-plea denials of Marcus DiPaola's FBI ties, contradicted by Marcus's own public-record self-admission a year and a half after sentencing.

Brady / Entrapment

#8Brady 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.

From the filing: …ions — 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…

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Targeted, personal

Act V — Discrimination and Family Punishment

Racial remarks from staff, a discriminatory email from Major Marr, religious services blocked, video visits and family mail denied.

Family

#27Denied Video Visits

Repeated video visit requests denied.

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What it cost him

Act VII — The Damage Inflicted

Years of pretrial detention, denied family visits, intercepted mail, transfers without notice — the prosecution did not just deprive Ryan of his liberty. It destroyed his marriage, took him out of his children's daily lives, and ended the multi-million-dollar wholesale/retail company he built from the ground up. This is the harm the Anti-Weaponization Fund exists to remedy.

Family

#33Marriage and Family Destroyed by Prosecution

The pretrial detention, the indefinite separation, the denial of family visits, the intercepted mail, the inter-facility transfers — together destroyed Ryan's marriage and his relationship with his children. The cost is permanent and not theoretical.

From the filing: …extended pretrial detention without conviction, deliberate isolation from family, denied video visits, intercepted mail — is precisely the kind of state action the Anti-Weaponization F…

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