OREGON STANDOFF:  FEDS CLAIM 'OUTRAGEOUS DEMANDS' FROM RYAN BUNDY, INJURED WHEN LAVOY FINICUM WAS KILLED

Ryan Bundy was a passenger in the pickup truck driven by LaVoy Finicum and after Finicum was killed, Bundy was arrested and taken to a local hospital for an x-ray,    The x-ray revealed shrapnel in his shoulder, shrapnel that Ryan Bundy decided to hold onto as evidence of what happened to him.

It is strongly believed that his injury came at the hands of FBI Agent W. Joseph Astarita, set to go on trial for lying about shooting just before Oregon State Police gunned LaVoy Finicum down.

Assistant US Attorney Paul Maloney says that the government is willing to pay for surgery to remove the shrapnel as possible evidence but that "Ryan Bundy has refused multiple requests that he consent to undergo surgery (at the government's expense) in order to remove the metal fragment from his body, unless the government meets a number of outrageous demands".

The Portland Oregonian/OregonLive quotes Ryan Bundy as saying "if they want it, they can buy it from me".

The pretrial wrangling is underway ahead of FBI agent Astarita's trial scheduled to start July 24th.

On May 21st US District Judge Robert E. Jones will hear arguments from the prosecution and defense lawyers over a 3-D animation of Astarita's shooting created by Oregon authorities.

Astarita's lawyers contend the FBI shooting team that investigated in February 2016 couldn't determine whether Astarita fired any shots that day contradicting what Oregon authorities discovered in their investigation.

Why did the FBI send their shooting team with the Oregon authorities already working the matter?

Covering the tracks of Astarita?

Representatives of the Oregon shooting team ended up going to FBI headquarters and meeting with none other than the former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to press their case about Astarita and his fellow agents at the scene lying about the shooting.

Their efforts led to the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General investigating and the charges against W. Joseph Astarita only in connection with the case and only for lying about his shooting.

Link below.........

"OregonLive" Pretrial Story 4/26/2018

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