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days, arrest to pardon

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

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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: …ffice 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 arou…

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Ten different facilities

Act VI — The Pattern Across Facilities

Ryan was cycled through ten different facilities — Tyler (E.D. Tex.), Oklahoma transit, NW3 quarantine, DC DOC CTF, Rappahannock Regional Jail, Northern Neck Regional Jail, FDC Houston, Florence, Albany Jail, and post-sentence BOP. The same pattern of denied medical care, denied legal access, denied family contact, and a broken grievance system followed him at every stop. The IGP-broken finding has U.S. Marshals and a DC DOC Chief on the record.

Inter-Facility Pattern

#30Northern Neck Regional Jail — Co-Defendants Starved of Discovery

Co-defendant Christopher Quaglin held at Northern Neck Regional Jail with missing discovery and dangerous weight loss. Defense correspondence with Superintendent Ted Hull and the Marshals documents the same institutional pattern across yet another facility.

From the filing: …not confined to a single facility or to a single detainee. Christopher Quaglin — a fellow January 6 defendant — was held at Northern Neck without his case discovery and was suffering docume…

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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.

Damage Inflicted

#34Career and Business Destroyed by Prosecution

Years of pretrial detention without conviction destroyed Wholesale Universe, Inc. — the multi-million-dollar wholesale/retail company Ryan built from the ground up. The economic damage is documented, measurable, and direct.

From the filing: Before January 6, 2021, Ryan was running Wholesale Universe, Inc. — a multi-million-dollar wholesale/retai…

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