(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A defendant facing state charges over the 2020 alleged militia plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is seeking to have the scheme’s so-called “ringleader” testify in his upcoming trial.
The attorney for Eric Molitor, whose trial for providing material support for an act of terrorism is set to begin next month, filed a motion to have Adam Fox transferred from the supermax prison in Colorado back to Michigan for the trial next month. Fox was incarcerated at the ADX Florence supermax prison after he was found guilty last October in his second trial for plotting to kidnap Whitmer.
According to Molitor, prosecutors in Michigan are unwilling to sign the necessary paperwork to have Fox transferred from Colorado back to state custody in Michigan so he can testify. Molitor’s attorney is seeking a court order to force the state prosecutors to process the necessary paperwork.
The state prosecutors, for their part, have warned that Fox wouldn’t have criminal immunity to testify. They suggested that Fox, who hasn’t been charged by the state of Michigan, could further incriminate himself with his testimony.
But Molitor said on Monday that Fox is willing to wave his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination so that he can testify. The defendant added that Fox’s testimony is necessary for him to receive a fair trial.
Fox did not testify at either of his trials in 2022. But following his conviction, he became more vocal about the FBI’s wrongdoing against him and the other defendants.
Earlier this year, Fox told independent journalist Christina Urso—who is working on a documentary about the Whitmer plot—that the entire scheme was provoked by FBI informants.
“Dan Chappel [an FBI informant] was the driving force of it all. With him and Stephen Robeson [another FBI informant[ always telling us we have to have a mission, we have to have a goal, we can’t just be training for anything—we’ve got to have objectives,” Fox said. “We all looked to him for guidance.”
Shortly after Fox spoke to Urso, he was transferred from Michigan to the supermax facility in Colorado. Another guilty defendant who was speaking to Urso, Barry Croft, was also transferred to a maximum security facility in Terre Haute. Both of them have been prevented from speaking to media.
Fox and Croft have been sending and receiving letters from their respective cages. Their friends and families encourage people to write them.
Everyone, I have received another letter from Adam Fox, the man framed by the FBI as the "ringleader" in the Whitmer Kidnapping hoax, from Florence Supermax.
Please consider writing to Adam and sending him some cross words! @ezrasgrammy @gabbyynicholee @arieschas @julie_kelly2 pic.twitter.com/GHsmgRaXCb
— Radix Verum (@NotRadix) May 5, 2023
Molitor’s trial is set to begin on Aug. 21. His two co-defendants are brothers Michael Null and William Null. Shawn Fix and Brian Higgins have pleaded guilty to the state charges, and will testify against those defendants.
On the federal level, Fox and Croft were found guilty last year, while Brandon Caserta and Daniel Harris were found not guilty.
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
