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Wow. This is all news to me. Thanks for posting.

I don't get it. All the coverage I've been seeing about Brown suggests he's been indicted somehow for identity theft. There's nothing about identity theft in here. Is there a second indictment I'm not seeing?



He was being investigated for identity theft. The FBI searched his Mother's home and threatened her with obstruction when they didn't find what they were looking for. Then he made his 'threats' and that's what he was initially arrested for. Being stupid and making vague threats because the FBI seemed to be targeting those close to him.


Yes, they did a second indictment. Didn't mean to hide the ball. I think the second indictment is just trumped up to be fair.


And a third:

http://freebarrettbrown.org/files/bb_indictment3.pdf

That one relates to concealment of evidence, and corruptly concealing evidence, in relation to the hiding of laptops at some point either before or during the execution of a search warrant.


Ahhhh, right; the second indictment seems to charge him as an an accessory to the entire Stratfor debacle.




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