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White supremacists trial begins in Idaho
BOISK. Idaho (AP) A paid
FBI informant encouraged and
incited an alleged conspiracy
by three northern Idaho white
supremacists to bomb a gay
nightclub in the Seattle area,
defense lawyers told jurors
Wednesday.
After opening statements, the
supremacists' trial began before
an eight-woman, four-man fed
eral court jury with presenta
tion of the first example of
some 100 hours of audio and
video tape gathered by the FBI.
The first tape was an April 14
sound recording of defendants
Robert Winslow and Procter
lames Baker with informant
Rico Valentino at the test det
onation of a pipe bomb inside a
coffee can filled with roofing
nails.
Throughout the half-hour re
cording. Valentino could lx;
heard making statements ap
parently aimed at drawing the
other men out on the subject of
using a similar bomb to attack
what he called a "fag bar" in
Seattle.
Their less-audible comments
on the topic generally were
only in response and were
milder than Valentino's.
“You might say when it goes
off you'd have the faggots
nailed," Valentino said at one
point during the episode on na
tional forest land north of Hay
den Lake.
He later congratulated Wins
low for the successful test blast
"Thanks for the demonstra
tion. brother," Valentino said.
"It was well worth the wait,
that's for sure I definitely got a
bang out of it."
Prosecutors began presenting
their case Wednesday afternoon
against Winslow. 2ft. of la
Clede; Baker. T>H. of Coeur
d’Alene; and Stephen Nelson.
35. of Hayden lake.
All three have l>een held
without lull since their Ma\ lit
.irrests The tri.il whs expected
to last as long as four weeks
Car Hackney. Nelson's law
yer. told jurors during his
opening statement that Valen
tino could not lie trusted He
called the former professional
wrestler and bodyguard to the
Rev. Kit hard Butler of the
white-supremacist Church of
|esus Christ Christian-Aryan
Nations "a flimflam man. a
hustler and a con artist.”
Hackney said Valentino insti
gated the lioinbing plot after
three unproductive years as an
undercover informant.
"He lied for three years and
he was paid to lie." Hackney
said. "Now the government
will ask you to believe every
thing that comes from his
mouth as if it were true
In his opening statement. As
sistant U.S. Attorney Ron
Howen said the government
would prove the defendants
conspired to bomb Neighbours,
a Seattle restaurant and night
club described as popular with
gays, lesbians and other minor
ities He also gave a detailed
outline of what prosecutors
contend was the chain of
events beginning last March
that led to the May 12 arrests
shortly before the alleged
Ixnnbing was to occur
Howen repeatedly referred to
the defendants as "Aryan war
riors" who wanted to further
their white-supremacist beliefs,
who dismissed using violence
to make "fag burgers" and then
tried to follow through on their
plans
By the end of March. Howen
said, "the group had turned
from talk and rhetoric to ac
tion.”
Hut Douglas VanderBoegh.
Winslow's court-appointed
lawyer, urged the jurors to re
member everyone is entitled to
freedom of speech
"It's only when you start to
act upon it that the government
should lx- concerned." he said
Although he indicated earlier
that Winslow's defense' would
not lx1 least'll primarily on argu
ments that Valentino had on
trapped him. VandnrHoegh said
Wednesday he would prove the
I HI informant furthered his
own goals hy taking advantage
of Winslow's vulnerability fol
lowing a medical discharge
from the Army.
Valentino had received more
than $90.(KM) since infiltrating
the Aryan Nations but had un
covered nothing until Winslow
appeared on the scene last
March. VandnrHoegh said
Valentino is "going to appear
as a con man He's going to ap
pear as a liar lie's going to ap
pear as a cheat." the attorney
said. "Rico Valentino is a se
duc er lie's .1 tempter He prevs
upon the weak
"Mr Valentino uses three
tools to ply his trade."
VanderBoegh said "He uses
liquor, he uses money and he
uses hraggadiM io. "
Hac kni'v discounted the sig
nificance of taped conversa
tions involving the defendants
that he acknowledged contain
rac ial epithets the |urv would
find repugnant And he urged
the panel to carefully study the
audio and video recordings to
differentiate between "right
wing fantasy talk" and con
crete plans for violence.
Winslow and Nelson are
charged with conspiracy to
bomb. knowingly making, re
ceiving or possessing tximbs or
grenades, carrying firearms in
relation to a crime of violence
.1 ncl crossing state lines to c cun
mil a felonv
Baker is c harged with the
i nnspirai v and bomb-posses
sion counts
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