The January 6 Files

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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: …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 t…

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