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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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: …ithout 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 arch…

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Pandemic-era neglect

Act IV — Healthcare Denial

COVID outbreak in the pod, testing denied, vaccine coerced as condition of court access.

Bodily Integrity / Court Access

#23Coerced COVID Vaccination as Condition of Court Access

Judge Hogan made COVID vaccination a precondition to entering his courtroom for the bond hearing. Ryan went on the record refusing — was told he could not appear at his own hearing unless he took the shot. He reluctantly complied, was injured, and was still denied bond. Then the jail refused the second dose until after the window expired.

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