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    Montana man with controversial past to serve as 'volunteer paralegal' for Ryan Bundy




    By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
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    on August 23, 2016 at 6:33 PM, updated August 23, 2016 at 6:37 PM



    Oregon standoff defendant Ryan Bundy is getting more help with his defense.

    On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown allowed Montana resident Roger L. Roots, a convicted felon, to serve as a volunteer paralegal for Bundy and his standby counsel.


    Roots, a Libertarian candidate for Montana's secretary of state who is admitted to practice law in Rhode Island, has a controversial past.


    Two years ago, he told Montana's Sidney Herald that he was turning away from a youth filled with racism and anti-Semitism to be a champion for individual liberties.


    He almost wasn't admitted to the bar in Rhode Island, because of prior convictions
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    Around age 19, he was sentenced to 51 weeks in prison for resisting arrest and violating his probation in Florida. In 1992, he was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison for possession of an unregistered firearm. Authorities located two rifles and a pistol in his dorm room at Northwest Community College in Wyoming, according to legal documents.


    Initially, Ryan Bundy had asked for Roots to serve as a second standby counsel.


    Bundy told the judge he wanted to be able to speak confidentially with Roots from jail, and to have Roots seated beside him at the defense table in court to advise him. Bundy is one of 26 defendants indicted on a federal conspiracy charge stemming from the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. He's set to go to trial Sept. 7.


    The judge reminded Bundy he was considered an indigent defendant, and as such, does not have "a right to counsel of your choice.''


    Roots, who attended Tuesday's pretrial conference hearing in U.S. District Court in Portland, said he would withdraw his application to be allowed as an out-of-state lawyer to represent Bundy. His $300 application fee would be returned to him, the court confirmed.


    Instead, the judge said she'd allow Roots to confer confidentially with Ryan Bundy in jail, and be seated beside him at the defense table during court hearings, but not allow him to address the court.


    "I do accept Roger Roots as a member of our team,'' Ryan Bundy told the court.


    Roots' website
    proclaims, "My client is liberty!'' It also says, "Few lawyers are prepared to challenge the modern governmental leviathan. I view the struggle against government as a lawyer's highest duty.''


    Ryan Bundy wore the usual blue jail scrubs in court on Tuesday, signifying he's no longer in disciplinary segregation at the Multnomah County Detention Center, his standby lawyer Lisa Ludwig confirmed.


    On Monday, Ryan Bundy was the sole defendant who appeared in court in the federal conspiracy case wearing a white one-piece jail jumpsuit, which marked that he was facing disciplinary segregation in jail following a scuffle with jail deputies earlier this month.

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    Ryan Bundy Could Lose Ability To Represent Himself At Trial

    by Conrad Wilson Follow OPB | Aug. 24, 2016 4:17 p.m. | Updated: Aug. 24, 2016 5:20 p.m. | Portland





    Ryan Bundy could lose his ability to represent himself at trial. Judge Brown wrote Bundy has repeatedly raised “frivolous issues” in open court and through written motions.
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    U.S. District Court Judge Anna Brown appears poised to terminate Ryan Bundy’s status as his own attorney in his trial, which starts next month.

    In an order filed Wednesday, Brown wrote that Bundy has repeatedly raised “frivolous issues” in open court and through written motions.


    Brown said Bundy must provide a written explanation by Aug. 29 for why he should be allowed to continue to represent himself rather than reinstate Lisa Ludwig, his standby counsel, as his defense attorney.


    Ryan Bundy


    Hometown: Bunkerville, Nevada

    AWAITING TRIAL

    TRIAL DATE: SEPT. 7, 2016


    “On several occasions Ryan Bundy has raised issues related to this Court’s jurisdiction under Article III of the United States Constitution, the Court’s asserted failure to provide him with a bill of particulars, and the false contention that he has not been provided any discovery in this case,” Brown wrote in her order. “This Court has addressed its jurisdiction over this matter on multiple occasions.”

    Bundy has been acting as his own attorney since mid-March, with the assistance Ludwig, who was appointed by the court.

    At the time, Bundy told Brown he wanted to represent himself.

    “I need to be heard; my voice needs to be heard,” Bundy said. “I need to be able to speak when the time is right.”


    Brown also said Bundy has filed “frivolous Motions” on the court docket. In July, Bundy filed a motion that declared himself an “idiot of the ‘Legal Society’” who isn’t subject to federal law.


    Brown also specifically cited filings by Bundy that implied she isn’t fit as a judge to preside over the Sept. 7 trial.


    “Despite the Court’s repeated admonishment, Ryan Bundy has continued to raise during hearings matters related to this judicial officer’s authority to preside over this case and the Court’s federal jurisdiction.”


    Brown noted if Bundy doesn’t provide a good reason by next week, the court can terminate self-representation because Bundy has engaged in obstructions misconduct.


    “’The right of self-representation is not a license to abuse the dignity of the courtroom,’” Brown quoted from a 2004, Ninth Circuit case. “’Neither is it a license not to comply with relevant rules of procedural and substantive law.’”

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    Blaine Cooper, Jerry DeLemus plead guilty in Nevada standoff near Bundy's rancch

    Blaine Cooper, Jerry DeLemus plead guilty in Nevada standoff near Cliven Bundy's ranch


    Gerald "Jerry" DeLemus (left) and Blaine Cooper on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016, became the first of 19 defendants to take plea deals in the April 2014 standoff between U.S. Bureau of Land Management agents near Cliven Bundy's property about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas. (The Associated Press)

    By The Associated Press
    August 25, 2016 at 4:01 PM, updated August 25, 2016 at 4:42 PM



    LAS VEGAS — Two men pleaded guilty Thursday for their roles in an armed confrontation with federal officials over grazing rights near cattleman Cliven Bundy's ranch.

    Gerald "Jerry" DeLemus and Blaine Cooper are the first of 19 defendants to take plea deals in the April 2014 standoff. Each man admitted to conspiring with others who engaged in a tense standoff with federal Bureau of Land Management agents near Bundy's property about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas. Each also pleaded guilty to another felony in the case.


    Both said they weren't physically present for the standoff. "I was calling people to participate," Cooper told U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro.


    Their plea deals call for sentences of six years in federal prison, although their defense attorneys can seek leniency at sentencing Dec. 1. Each also could be fined as much as $500,000 and be subject to as much as three years of government supervision after prison.


    Cooper, 37, from Humboldt, Arizona, also pleaded guilty to assault on a federal officer.


    He told the judge he interfered with the execution of federal court orders by recruiting armed gunmen to display support for Bundy and his sons Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, Mel Bundy and Dave Bundy and stop the roundup of the family's cattle from the scenic Gold Butte area.


    DeLemus, 61, of Rochester, New Hampshire, also pleaded guilty to a felony alleging that when he drove cross-country with guns he intended to display "force and aggression" to stop the roundup.


    DeLemus, a former U.S. Marine, arrived in Nevada hours after the standoff.


    He spent weeks afterward living in a tent and organizing armed patrols near Bundy's ranch outside Bunkerville. He said at the time the goal was to prevent government agents from returning to harm or arrest Bundy family members, and that if someone pointed a gun at him he would point his gun back.

    DeLemus was also politically active at home in New Hampshire, where his wife, Susan DeLemus, is a Republican state assemblywoman.

    He stopped several times Thursday to confer with his attorney while entering his guilty pleas.


    "I don't know that I threatened anyone," DeLemus told the judge at one point, "but I made public statements hoping it would end peacefully."


    Prosecutors characterized DeLemus and Cooper as "mid-level organizers" and leaders of the conspiracy to prevent federal agents and contract cowboys from rounding up Bundy cattle that federal authorities said were trespassing on public land.


    "Federal law enforcement officers must be able to engage in their official duties, including executing federal court orders, without fear of assault or losing their lives," U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said in a statement after the pleas.


    In exchange for their guilty pleas, the government agreed to drop nine other felony charges against them.


    Trials for some of the remaining 17 defendants is scheduled to begin Feb. 2 on charges also including threatening a federal officer, carrying a firearm in a crime of violence, and obstruction.


    Seven defendants in the Nevada case, including Cooper and Bundy sons Ammon and Ryan Bundy, are also among 26 people charged in Portland, Oregon, with conspiracy, weapon, theft and damaging government property counts stemming from a 41-day occupation of a wildlife refuge earlier this year.


    Eleven people have taken plea deals in the Oregon case, including Cooper. He pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy and is expected to be sentenced to six months in prison, with credit for time served, and six months in a halfway house or home detention.


    The pleas Thursday by DeLemus and Cooper didn't specify whether the two men would be called to testify against others in Nevada or Oregon.

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    Judge OKs Ryan Bundy, Medenbach to be own lawyer

    Ryan Bundy was hesitant, but agreed to follow rules

    STEVEN DUBOIS Associated Press
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    August 30, 2016, 5:00 pm

    Ryan Bundy, Kenneth Medenbach, 2016 (Multnomah County Sheriff's Office)

    PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A federal judge agreed to let Oregon standoff defendants Ryan Bundy and Kenneth Medenbach represent themselves at their upcoming trial, despite concerns they won’t follow court rulings in the presence of the jury.

    U.S. District Judge Court Anna Brown threatened to take away their right to self-representation because they have repeatedly challenged the court’s jurisdiction. At a hearing Tuesday, she wanted them to promise they wouldn’t raise issues in front of a jury that have already been resolved.

    Jury selection begins Sept. 7 and opening statements are tentatively slated for Sept. 13.

    Medenbach said he would follow the rules. Bundy was more hesitant, but eventually agreed.


    The men are among eight people ready to stand trial on conspiracy charges related to this winter’s 41-day occupation of a national wildfire refuge.

    L-R, top to bottom: Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, Pete Santilli, Neil Wampler, Kenneth Medenbach, Shawna Cox, Jeff Banta, David Fry, 2016 (Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office)

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    Third defendant Bunkerville standoff case reaches plea deal

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    Ammon Bundy chooses to wear jail scrubs in trial



    Ammon Bundy in Multnomah County Detention Center, where he is being held, March 3, 2016 Beth Nakamura/Staff

    By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
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    Ammon Bundy surprised the court Thursday when he showed up for trial wearing blue jail scrubs.

    "Mr. Bundy desires to appear as he is, a political prisoner not free to dress as if presumed innocent,'' attorney J. Morgan Philpot said, reading his client's statement. "He would prefer to drop the facade and appear as the political prisoner he has been made.''


    Bundy also bemoaned how he has been "shuffled around in chains," "molested like an animal," and not given the "utensils'' he needs to prepare for trial.


    U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown asked Bundy to stand. She inquired whether it was his choice to appear in jail attire, and if anyone took his suit away.


    "Your honor, I have no comment," he replied.


    The judge told him she must know if his decision was voluntary.


    "I have no comment," he said.


    Philpot interjected, "Mr. Bundy feels he really has no choice — that that's been taken from him."


    Controversy surrounding Bundy's attire began just before jury selection, when he objected to a U.S. Marshal's policy that he not be allowed to wear cowboy boots, a belt or necktie. In his objection to that policy, his lawyer argued that a juror could draw an inference that he was not presumed innocent as he was being held in custody and did not look like the other out-of-custody defendants.


    The judge then denied his objections, and Bundy came to court in a tan suit jacket, white dress shirt and loafers.


    Assistant U.S. Attorney Ethan Knight on Thursday said the government didn't have any objection to Bundy's choice of clothing now, but did note that Bundy had earlier been concerned about jurors drawing any inferences of guilt from his attire.


    Defendant Ryan Bundy, Ammon's older brother, stood up in court, and said he supported his brother's assertions.


    "Do you wish to change clothes too?" the judge asked him.


    Ryan Bundy, wearing a dark suit jacket and black shirt, responded, "I'm fine with mine today."


    The judge allowed Ammon Bundy to remain in the standard jail scrubs — blue shirt over pink T-shirt and blue pants.


    She did, though, alert jurors to the change.


    "You are not to draw any inference of any kind from his attire today or any day," Brown said.

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    FBI agents find more than 1,600 shell casings at boat launch, ammo throughout refuge



    A flag signed by various occupiers hangs in the common area of a bunkhouse at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Jan. 15, 2016. Thomas Boyd/Staff
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    Jurors on Monday watched a video of seven or eight men rapidly firing assault rifles from the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge's boat launch.

    FBI agents then held up several plastic evidence bags containing the 1,627 spent shell casings recovered near the launch on the northeast side of the property. Of them, 1,050 were .223-caliber casings, testimony showed.


    Assistant U.S Attorney Ethan Knight argued that the video, posted on co-defendant Jason Blomgren's Facebook account, directly contradicts the argument by defense lawyers and defendants that the armed takeover of the refuge was a peaceful political protest.


    "It's direct evidence of force,'' Knight told the judge before she ruled that the video could be shown to jurors.


    Attorney Marcus Mumford, representing takeover leader Ammon Bundy, had argued that firing the guns wasn't an act of force in and of itself and that the video wasn't publicly posted on Blomgren's account but sent in a message to Blomgren's father.


    U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown said a rational juror could conclude the video provides evidence of the defendants' intent in the alleged conspiracy.


    FBI agents, photographers and forensic accountants who were part of the agency's Evidence Response Team spent the day testifying about what they recovered from the bird sanctuary in late February after the 41-day occupation. Bundy and six co-defendants are on trial, charged with conspiring to impede federal employees from the refuge through force, intimidation or threats.


    The agents described dozens of boxes of ammunition found in multiple sites, rifle cases left in the refuge archaeologist's office, a trench filled with trash bags near the RV park on the eastern edge of the main refuge headquarters, three cut padlocks located in a dumpster outside the bunkhouse, a "Tyranny" sign propped up at the refuge's front gate and an improvised bunker dug out by the back gate of the refuge.


    They also revealed handwritten notes they seized from the bunkhouse and elsewhere that described tactical training, formations and drills, guard duty schedules and individual assignments such as "rifleman'' or "medic.''


    FBI Special Agent Christopher Chew said he was the senior team leader, managing the search and seizure of evidence from Feb. 12 through Feb. 23. He said there were FBI evidence teams that helped Portland agents from Seattle, Salt Lake City, Denver and San Antonio.


    Sixty-three people searched 23 buildings, nine outdoor areas and 14 privately owned vehicles on the federal property.


    When Chew testified about the spent shell casings at the boat lunch, Mumford asked if investigators found any targets.


    Chew said he didn't. "Just birds and wildlife,'' he said. Agents didn't cross a lake to access the wetlands that the men were firing toward, he explained.


    Mumford asked if anyone got shot at the refuge. "I"m not aware of anyone getting shot at the refuge,'' Chew responded.


    There were some explosive materials, such as Tannerite, found at the refuge, but no bombs, Chew said.


    Prosecutors have said authorities discovered more than 20,000 unfired rounds of ammunition in boxes, bags, trucks and bunks at the refuge.

    Agents presented evidence bag after evidence bag with large numbers of rounds, including more than 300 bullets that were inside a metal tin found in the improvised bunker -- a dug-out area on an elevated point between rocks, north of Narrows Princeton Road near the refuge back gate, FBI agent Sarah Bibbs said.


    "Someone could lay and have a tactical advantage,'' Bibbs said.


    FBI agent Ryan Phillips identified 420 rounds of federal ammunition 5.56 x 45 mm seized from boxes found on the front driver's seat of Ammon Bundy's Chevy Silverado. The truck was located between the offices of refuge fish biologist Linda Beck and refuge archeologist Carla Burnside, the agent said.


    Inside co-defendant Duane Ehmer's red Suburban, FBI agents found a maroon pouch containing several government gas cards, four U.S. Department of Interior MasterCards, refuge employee Faye Healy's government identification card as well as cash and checks. The pouch had been locked in a file cabinet in the main building of the refuge headquarters.


    Inside the horse trailer attached to Ehmer's truck, agents discovered the butt of a rifle sticking out of a pile of hay. The rifle wasn't loaded.


    Inside refuge employee Burnside's office, agents found five rifle cases or rifle bags on the second floor. One of them was a black bag that read "AMMON'' on one of the canvas handles, an agent said.


    During cross-examination, Mumford established that investigators didn't find rifles in the bags or cases presented in court.


    A handwritten note recovered from the bunkhouse titled "Principles of Patrolling'' listed the elements as "planning, recon, security, control and common sense.''


    On a yellow legal pad found on a desk in the RV park day room, there was a sheet of paper titled "Infrantrysquad,'' with references to CDF for Constitution Defense Forces and names of people who were part of four squads of Rapid Response Teams.


    In the bunkhouse, there were training notes under the title "OCOKA,'' standing for Observation, Cover and Conceal, Obstacles, Key Terrain and Avenues of Approach. Another sheet referred to Trooper Leading Procedures, or TLPs, and included references to "Receive Mission'' and "Complete the Plan'' to "Issue Op Order'' and "Supervise.''


    There were operation orders for "Situation - Friendly'' and "Situation- Enemy.'' A green spiral notebook with the title "CHARLIE TEAM TRAINING BOOK'' contained sketched diagrams of formations, which were dubbed "Wedge,'' "Column,'' "File,'' "Diamond, "Rolling T'' and "V.''


    Training Day 2 for Charlie Team included a list of drills, with such names as "crazy corners,'' "fatal funnels,'' "highman lowman'' and "pie corners.'' One sheet in the book also listed the riflemen, including Joker J, the nickname for co-defendant and cooperating government witness Jason Blomgren.


    Found taped to the back door of a room in the bunkhouse was a schedule for squad Bravo, with this handwritten on top: "We didn't get dressed up for Nothin'.''


    In one bunkroom, defendant Neil Wampler's belongings were removed from a suitcase, including his membership card for the National Rifle Association.


    "Is being a member of the NRA evidence of a crime?'' Mumford asked an agent. The judge asked jurors to disregard the question.


    Defense lawyers repeatedly questioned the FBI agents or photographers whether they could identify who owned the ammunition or other evidence presented or if they conducted any further fingerprint or DNA tests to determine who had brought the evidence to the refuge. Mumford asked why cigarette butts were retrieved from the boat launch but not tested for DNA.


    The FBI agents who testified said their sole responsibility was to collect the evidence.


    During a cross-examination of an FBI agent, defendant Ryan Bundy asked if the pocket Constitutions depicted in a photo of one of the rooms in the refuge bunkhouse were seized as evidence.


    The agent said he didn't take them. "So you did not find anything of value in there?'' Bundy continued.

    The judge sustained an objection to the question from prosecutors.


    Defense lawyer Matthew Schindler, who is assisting defendant Kenneth Medenbach, established that there were other items seized that the government didn't present to jurors Monday, including a Bible belonging to someone who isn't a defendant in the case, a couple of toothbrushes and a razor for potential DNA evidence. He also pointed out that some of the identified "riflemen'' listed on the documents seized aren't among the defendants indicted in the case.


    Medenbach has been excused from court this week due to medical issues. Judge Brown informed the jury of his permitted absence.


    Also Monday, defendant Shawna Cox told the judge of a civil suit she filed Monday in Harney County. The judge said it appeared to be a lawsuit against the United States, but she couldn't tell.


    "First of all, it has no bearing on this case,'' Brown said.


    The judge didn't allow prosecutors to introduce a badge found beside Shawna Cox's driver's license.

    Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Gabriel argued that the badge suggests she considers herself part of a "constitutional posse,'' which he said historically means an armed group of people who enforce the law themselves.


    Prosecutors plan to call two more witnesses Tuesday morning and present 22 long guns and 12 handguns recovered from the refuge to jurors before resting their case.


    The defense is scheduled to begin presenting its evidence and witnesses Wednesday. The Rev. Franklin Graham is set to testify in court Thursday for the defense.

    -- Maxine Bernstein
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    Ammon Bundy's personal bodyguard sentenced to time served, 9 months, in refuge takeover case


    Brian Cavalier at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters Monday, Jan. 4, 2016. (The Oregonian/OregonLive)

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    Ammon Bundy's personal bodyguard, Brian Cavalier, was sentenced Tuesday to the time he's already served in custody - exactly 9 months in jail - for conspiring to impede federal workers and having guns in a federal facility during the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

    Cavalier, 45, a broad-shouldered, sturdy man who goes by the nickname "Booda,'' stood before U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown, as a jury five floors down in the federal courthouse in downtown Portland continued to deliberate on the same federal conspiracy charge that Ammon Bundy and six other co-defendants, who went to trial, face.

    Cavalier, wearing blue jail scrubs, said nothing and showed no emotion.

    "You've fulfilled the custody provision of the sentence,'' Brown told him.

    Cavalier remains under a U.S. Marshals Service hold, and is expected to be transferred to Nevada, where he faces another federal indictment stemming from the 2014 armed standoff with federal agents outside controversial rancher Cliven Bundy's ranch near Bunkerville, Nevada. Cliven Bundy is the father of Ammon Bundy and Ryan Bundy.

    On June 29, Cavalier pleaded guilty to two charges in the Oregon case: conspiring to prevent federal workers from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Bureau of Land Management from carrying out their official work through intimidation, threat or force, and possession of a firearm in a federal facility.
    Brown told Cavalier he'll also face three years post-prison supervision, which would begin after, or run at the same time, as any Nevada-ordered supervision, should he be convicted in that case.

    Once he is on post-prison supervision, the judge told Cavalier "to move on with your life in a way that's law-abiding,'' and urged him to find a job or go to school.

    The amount he'll be required to pay the government in restitution has not been determined yet, the judge said.

    Cavalier also was ordered not to occupy, reside at or camp on any federal property, and not to go on to any land managed by either the federal land management agency, the federal fish and wildlife service or National Park Service.

    His lawyer Todd Bofferding asked if the court could eliminate the supervision condition that Cavalier not associate with co-defendants in the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Gabriel said the condition will only kick in once Cavalier is on post-prison supervision, which likely would follow the outcome of the Nevada prosecution.

    His defense lawyer in Nevada, Mace J. Yampolsky, also was in court in Portland on Tuesday and said Cavalier will be going to trial in February in Nevada.

    Cavalier was the first in Bundy's inner circle to accept a plea deal and the first of the 26 defendants indicted in the Oregon conspiracy case to plead guilty to the firearms charge. The negotiated sentence falls far below the maximum penalties for the two federal charges -- six years in prison for the conspiracy offense and five years for possessing firearms in a federal facility.

    "These are the times that try men's souls, and Mr. Cavalier did what he felt is best for his case,''

    Bofferding said in a statement after his client pleaded guilty in June. "Mr. Cavalier still loves America no matter what.''

    Cavalier identified himself as the personal bodyguard of Ammon Bundy and Bundy's parents Cliven and Carol, on a video posted on the Internet Sept. 9, federal prosecutors have said. Cavalier did work as a ranch hand for Cliven Bundy in exchange for room and board for several years, according to his attorney.

    Cavalier attended a protest in Burns on Jan. 2 to demonstrate against the return to federal prison of two Harney County ranchers. From the parking lot of a Burns Safeway, he traveled with others to occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge that day and spent the first five days as Ammon Bundy's "armed personal security detail,'' Gabriel said in June.

    Cavalier left Oregon for more than a week but returned to the refuge later in January to continue his security role. On Jan. 26, he was riding in a Jeep with Ammon Bundy and other takeover leaders when FBI agents and state police stopped them along rural U.S. 395 as they were driving to a community meeting in John Day.

    When Cavalier was arrested, he wasn't armed, Gabriel said. During the second part of his stay at the refuge, the government also did not have evidence that he was armed, Gabriel noted.

    "I was a body guard for Ammon Bundy which could have led to intimidation for any employee,'' Cavalier told the court.
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