(Ken Silva, Headline USA) David Cassady, 55, a convicted violent rapist serving life behind bars at Phillips State Prison in Georgia, successfully sued the Georgia Department of Corrections last year to receive a taxpayer-funded sex change—a lawsuit supported by Biden’s Justice Department.
It’s not clear whether the sex change will still move forward now that Donald Trump is President, given Trump’s executive order to cease federally funded sex changes for prisoners. Cassady has yet to receive the operation, and his lawsuit is still an open case.
Either way, Cassady is also set to plead guilty to sending a bomb to the DOJ, the same agency that helped him win his sex-change lawsuit against the Georgia DOC. The DOJ notified a federal judge Wednesday that it has struck a plea deal with Cassady. The terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed.
Ironically, the DOJ filed a brief in support of Cassady’s lawsuit last January, while the inmate was under investigation for alleged bomb-making. Even more ironically, the inmate was under investigation for sending a bomb to 1400 New York Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.—a building that houses a DOJ office.
UPDATE: In perhaps the most irony-laden story I've ever broken, the U.S. government has agreed to give a sex change to an inmate who tried bombing the U.S. government.
I uncovered this inmate's identity in July, but the Trump shooting happened 2 days later and it never received… https://t.co/b2ynTgrUOD pic.twitter.com/qGSrV7sbjP
— Ken Silva (@JD_Cashless) December 4, 2024
In other words, the DOJ filed an amicus brief in support of an inmate who apparently tried bombing the DOJ, according to the DOJ. To add a drop of stupidity, the DOJ refers to Cassady as a female in the sex-change litigation, but calls him a man in the bombing case.
Cassady was indicted last April on multiple federal charges for constructing and mailing bombs to federal facilities.
The DOJ declined to comment, while the non-profit groups representing the inmate haven’t responded to emails seeking comment. Georgia’s Department of Corrections also declined to comment, citing the pending litigation.
According to the DOJ’s indictment, Cassady’s bomb-making occurred from September 2019 to January 2020. He faces one count of making an unregistered destructive device, two counts of mailing a destructive device, and one count of attempted malicious use of an explosive.
When the indictment was unsealed in April, WSB-TV in Atlanta revealed that Cassady sent a bomb to the widow of a man he sexually assaulted as a teenager.
“How is somebody who is in prison for life, for horrific acts against the community, how is possible that he can still terrorize members of the community from behind bars?” the widow reportedly said. “And now somehow, he was able to access all of this and mail it out of prison. Somebody needs to look at the bigger picture of who he is.”
Cassady has pleaded not guilty to the charges, according to the court docket. The inmate is already serving a life sentence.
Cassady isn’t the only trans bomber to receive DOJ support in a sex-change lawsuit. As Headline USA exclusively documented in 2023, former neo-Nazi bank robber Pete/Donna Langan, who has ties to the Oklahoma City bombing, reached a settlement with the DOJ to become the first federal inmate in history to receive a sex change.
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
