Felt’s enthusiasm for dirty tricks led to his authorization of illegal wiretaps after Hoover’s death and his subsequent prosecution and conviction. “I took part in the successful FBI struggle against these bomb-throwers and my battle decoration came on April 10th, 1978, when Attorney General Griffin Bell announced that I, along with L. Patrick Gray III and Edward S. Miller, had been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in Washington, D.C. for violating the civil rights of members and supporters of the Weather Underground.”
Felt was pardoned by President Ronald Reagan and did not pay for his crimes. Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa were not so fortunate. Both men were convicted in a controversial trial marred by the withheld evidence and conflicting police testimony. Sentenced to life imprisonment the two are confined at the maximum-security Nebraska State Penitentiary where they continue to deny any involvement in Minard’s death. Poindexter has a new trial request pending before the Nebraska Supreme Court. No date for a decision has been announced.
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