A member of the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team has been indicted in Oregon on five federal counts of making a false statement and obstruction of justice.
The five-count indictment relates to the January 2016 police chase and fatal shooting of Robert Lavoy Finicum, the spokesman for a standoff with federal authorities at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
FBI agent W. Joseph Astarita, 40, received three counts of making a false statement and two counts of obstruction of justice. Appearing yesterday in federal court in Portland, he pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Astarita will remain out of custody pending trial.
Find out the alleged deception that led to the charges against him, which law enforcement agency produced the evidence, and the dismay of law enforcement officials over the indictment.
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It happens!
Good! We don’t need dirty cops or dirty politicians!
Prosecute the agent for murder.
What? Lying? Tampering with evidence? Im shocked.
This was pure out and out murder – those who were involved from the bottom up needs to be prosecuted for murder and aiding and abetting in such action. Can’t stand the theft of land, the death of this good man and the injury to his family.
What is scary is that the FBI had no problem murdering this man. Scary.
Hostage?
That was the name of the game under the Hussein administration.
THEY WERE PROTESTING THE OVERREACH OF THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT AND THEIR ILLEGAL CLOSING RANCHERS ACCESS TO PUBIC GRAZING LANDS AND CONFISCATION OF THEIR CATTLE WHEN THEY WOULD NOT MOVE THEM, THEY HAD TO GET LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT INVOLVED TO GET THEIR CATTLE BACK…THIS IS WHAT STARTED THE STANDOFF
He is only charged with minor offenses. Everybody saw the video. He murdered the man