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On February 23, 2011 Jamie Kelso comments on the latest press release from Cyndi Steele, after talking with her by phone before the show. The attempt to railroad her husband, First Amendment attorney Edgar J. Steele, is scheduled to go to trial on March 7, 2011. 12 hours of important interviews with Mrs. Steele can be found in the Jamie Kelso archives on VOR.
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February 25, 2011


Attorney Wesley W. Hoyt’s discussion of the railroading of patriots like Edgar Steele, Mark Taylor, David Hinkson, and James Gibson is the subject of Jamie Kelso’s February 25, 2011 radio show. Attorney Hoyt details the sytematic program now underway among rogue elements of “our” government of filing false charges, using imprisonment without bail, using property confiscation, and totally criminal “informants” to silence key patriots and to intimidate all patriots. An infuriated public rising up against this rogue government is the answer that’s coming.
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I really hope that he gets out soon. He's been in jail for some time now.

Ok here's my most simple argument for Edgars innocence. The guy defended the Aryan Brotherhood in court. Now the AB definitely are a very organised criminal gang and I douby anyone would disagree with that statement. From all accounts Edgar did the best he could to defend them so I assume he has good relaitions with them. Now that said why would he hire an out of work moron to whack the wife when he could contact the AB for a real hitman with absolutely no connection to himself?
The hitman he alledgedly hired was his handyman. Is Edgar an idiot you hire handymen to put up shelves few if any are qualified to kill people.
The hitman was an FBI informant. Gee why didn't the FBI warn Mrs. Steele she was driving around with a bomb under her seat? Do you think their informant told them it wouldn't go off?

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Ok here's my most simple argument for Edgars innocence. The guy defended the Aryan Brotherhood in court. Now the AB definitely are a very organised criminal gang and I douby anyone would disagree with that statement. From all accounts Edgar did the best he could to defend them so I assume he has good relaitions with them. Now that said why would he hire an out of work moron to whack the wife when he could contact the AB for a real hitman with absolutely no connection to himself?
The hitman he alledgedly hired was his handyman. Is Edgar an idiot you hire handymen to put up shelves few if any are qualified to kill people.
The hitman was an FBI informant. Gee why didn't the FBI warn Mrs. Steele she was driving around with a bomb under her seat? Do you think their informant told them it wouldn't go off?

I hope the AB is watching!!

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Why would you be hoping the AB is watching? Personally I love the guys.lol

Jamie Kelso On The Radio
With His 13th Hour of Cyndi Steele Interviews

I'm doing my thirteenth hour of interviews with Cyndi Steele live today here: Jamie Kelso, Mar. 22, 2011: News from Cyndi Steele : Voice of Reason Broadcast Network

Also on with Mrs. Steele is her attorney Wesley H. Hoyt, as Cyndi and Wes talk about excellent new developments in the defense of First Amendment patriot attorney Edgar J. Steele.

Trial is now set for April 26, 2011. Wes tells us that the prosecution is expected to present its pathetic and collapsing case for four days, followed by a similar length of time for the ever-growing defense.

Here is reporting from May 4 of the trial in Boise by the Spokane Spokesman:

Jury goes home in Steele murder-for-hire case - Spokesman.com - May 4, 2011

BOISE - A jury of 11 women and one man has begun deliberations in the case of a North Idaho lawyer accused of hiring a man to kill his wife and mother-in-law.


Jurors are about to leave U.S. District Court in Boise, where Edgar J. Steele’s trial began a week ago.


While Steele’s lawyer, Robert McAllister questioned the reliability of FBI recordings and said the plot was really the work of the prosecution’s key witness, Larry Fairfax, Assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Haws told jurors in his closing argument today that the case is “simple.”


Though Steele’s fingerprints are not on the pipe bomb that was strapped under his wife’s car, Haws told jurors in his closing argument that his “legal fingerprints” are all over it.


Haws played portions of the recordings in which Steele discusses the plot to kill Cyndi Steele with Fairfax, a handyman whom he’d promised money to murder his wife and mother-in-law.


He said jurors are to be more skeptical of Fairfax’s testimony because of his involvement in the case, but that everything Fairfax has said is supported by other evidence.


In one of the recorded meetings with Steele, Fairfax is given $400 to pay for his travels to Portland. The FBI seized that money after the meeting and knows he didn’t have anything on him before he met with Steele.
“This is corroboration,” Haws said. “This says Mr. Fairfax was telling you the truth.”


But McAllister said all evidence in the case points not to his client but to Fairfax, who claims to have been hired by Steele to kill his wife and mother-in-law.


The pipe bomb strapped to Cyndi Steele’s SUV was Fairfax’s “act of defiance,” McAllister said, referring to a book Fairfax has said he wants to write.


He reminded jurors that Cyndi Steele said there were problems with the recordings in which her husband discussed the plot to kill her with Fairfax, such as unexplained breaks and syntax issues.


“There is one conclusion about those recordings: they are nothing but tar,” McAllister said. “…It’s fantasy talk; it’s fiction; it’s Larry Fairfax talking and trying to set up Edgar Steele.”


“Unfortunately in real life, this is more than just trying to write a book, it’s putting people’s lives in danger,” McAllister said.


He emphasized that Fairfax admits to attaching a pipe bomb to Cyndi Steele’s SUV but didn’t tell the FBI about it when he told them he could set up Edgar Steele.


“No one knows that until June 15, when it’s found,” he said.
But Haws said there’s no proof that the recordings are anything but authentic.


Steele would like jurors to think that a “Mission Impossible plot” has been created by the government, but “the recordings themselves tell you they are accurate” from the flow and syntax to the present of outside noises that carry through statements.


He said the thought that Fairfax could have “the sophistication and the tools” to put together a recording in the 30 minutes he was to visit with Steele is wrong.


“That can’t happen,” he said.


Haws also played a portion of the phone call Steele made to his wife after his arrest. He reminded jurors of Steele’s reaction when police falsely told him his wife was dead. Police described Steele’s reaction as flat and forced until they told him he was under arrest for murder for hire and a fecal odor filled the air.



“I would submit that his body reacted and told more truth than his mouth did,” Haws said.


But McAllister said Steele had no reason to want his wife dead. Claims by the prosecution and letters and emails that they say show Steele was in love with a woman he met on the Internet are wrong - the communication was part of Steele’s examination of the Russian bride scam, McAllister said.
“The whole Russian bride scam was a case, something to work on. It was something his family laughed about, because it was so fake,” McAllister said. “It’s fantasy… it’s not a motive to commit murder. it’s not a reason to commit murder.”


He said the Steeles talked regularly on the phone, including a 43-minute conversation the day before prosecutors say Cyndi was to be killed. He also reminded jurors that Edgar Steele recently paid $2,779 to save his mother-in-law’s home.


“If there’s really a plot or a plan, do you go take that kind of money and give it to someone else, who you’re supposedly going to kill?” McAllister said.


“The evidence in this case is that he loves Cyndi Steele, that he spent 25 years - now 26 - married to her with three children,” McAllister said.
He said the couple did have problems 10 years ago, but “the evidence in the next 10 years is that they raised their family” lived in North Idaho and were happy.


“Never did Edgar Steele show anything besides love for his family,” McAllister said. He pointed to the longtime friends who told jurors how shocked they were by the allegations.



He said the phone call Steele made to his wife from the jail doesn’t qualify as victim tampering. Cyndi Steele has said she wasn’t influenced by the call, and Edgar Steele didn’t know of the specifics of the recordings when he called Cyndi Steele.



“Yes she doesn’t believe that her husband is trying harm her, but she doesn’t know about what Mr. Fairfax or what (his cousin) Mr. (James) Maher might want to do to her,” McAllister said. “All she knows is a bomb was found under her car.”


“I’m sure the government will say ‘she’s in denial, she’s wrong,’ but the fact is this is the victim…coming before a jury and saying ‘I don’t believe it.’”
Steele faces at least 30 years in prison if convicted of his most serious charge - possession of a destructive device in relation to a crime of violence.


Steele also is charged with use of interstate commerce to commission murder for hire, use of explosive material to commit a federal felony and tampering with a victim.

Below is part of the coverage of CDAPress (Coeur d'Alene Press) reported on May 4, 2011:

BOISE - Larry Fairfax, the 50-year-old handyman turned hitman at the center of the Edgar J. Steele trial in federal court in Boise, has written more than 230 pages of what he testified will ultimately be a work of fiction.
However, those who have read it - who could probably be counted on one hand - say he writes about himself and his life since being arrested for entangling himself in an alleged murder-for-hire plot.


To be absolutely sure there's nothing contained within those single-space, handwritten pages that might help Steele's defense in his ongoing trial, U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill reviewed the writings Tuesday.
So what's the book all about?
John Miller, Fairfax's defense lawyer, said it records the "daily rantings and ravings" of his client at the time of his arrest and during his time in jail. He said Fairfax, of Sagle, takes some shots at prosecutors, the court, and Miller himself.
"Yes, there's some embarrassing material in there," Miller said.
Also included are prayers and entries about Fairfax's wife and family.
Miller said it's mostly privileged material that shouldn't have been seen by prosecutors, the judge and defense lawyers in Steele's case. Winmill ordered prosecutors to obtain the writings, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Traci Whelan read through the material over the weekend. She said she didn't find any exculpatory information.
Miller said the writings constitute more of a diary. Fairfax, however, has called it a book and had a fellow inmate craft a book cover. The fellow inmate, a multiple felon and artist, testified about his discussions with Fairfax about the project.
Steele defense attorney Robert McAllister said he wants a copy of the writings so he can represent his client. McAllister said he didn't subpoena Fairfax's work months earlier because he didn't believe Fairfax had written a book. His writings will be filed by the court under seal, Winmill said.
Fairfax still hasn't been sentenced for manufacturing and placing a pipe bomb under Steele's wife's SUV. He has admitted doing as much.
After Winmill finished poring over the writings, he said he planned to turn over parts of it that are relevant to the Steele case to McAllister, of Englewood, Colo., and defense attorney Gary Amendola, of Coeur d'Alene.
If there are sections that are reviewed by the defense, the lawyers might recall Fairfax as a witness. McAllister said Tuesday that Steele also might testify.
Steele, 65, of Sagle, hasn't spoken about the case since he was first arrested and began representing himself as his own attorney. Steele, during his legal career, represented Richard Butler and the Aryan Nations in North Idaho, among other high-profile clients.
While the judge and lawyers pored over Fairfax's work, jurors were sent away for the day without hearing from a single defense witness.
Other than hearing from Fairfax, again, or Steele, the jurors might hear from a defense expert who will talk about the audio recordings Fairfax captured while carrying a hidden device in his pocket. Fairfax became an FBI informant against Steele, his former employer.
That defense expert, George Papcun, must travel from Bora Bora, where he was on vacation on Tuesday, to Boise. Papcun must arrive some time today, because Winmill denied a defense request to continue the trial until Papcun was able to return.
Papcun likely would seek to attack the authenticity of the recordings' from June 9 and 10 at the Steeles' home.
Earlier, in court documents, Papcun concluded that to "a reasonable degree of scientific probability" the "tapes do not represent a true and valid representation of reality and they are unreliable."
Papcun's testimony could come into play because neither Cyndi Steele nor daughter Kelsey Steele, 20, believe the recordings between Edgar Steele and Larry Fairfax are authentic and reliable. Both believe Steele is innocent.
Winmill declined to allow Papcun to testify remotely from the South Pacific Ocean location after prosecutors complained about not being able to appropriately cross-examine him using the technology that would be available in the courtroom, and complaining the law doesn't provide for such an accommodation.
Winmill criticized the defense for not subpoenaing the witness, to ensure he would be available for the trail.
"It is a problem of the defense's own making," Winmill said.
Jurors were shown a video earlier in the trial of a 25-year-old Ukrainian woman, whom prosecutors said Edgar Steele wanted to be with instead of his wife. Her deposition, recorded in the Ukraine, was shown to the jury because prosecutors don't have the authority to make her travel to the U.S. to testify.
Fairfax testified he went to the FBI to report the alleged murder for hire, and agreed to secretly record Steele discussing the plot he's on trial for allegedly concocting. Fairfax said he wanted to get paid by Steele because he was struggling financially, but never intended to kill Cyndi Steele, even though he has admitted in court he placed the bomb under her vehicle and acknowledges it could have detonated.
Winmill said the jury is likely to have the case in its hands Thursday.
"We're pretty much on course," the judge said.
The trial continues today. Steele, who was arrested June 11, could spend the rest of his life in prison if he's convicted on the four counts he's charged on relating to the alleged plot.

Fairfax 'book' considered in trial - Coeur d'Alene Press: Local News

The Spokane Spokesman-Review reports on May 5 (today) in the early morning hours that the jury did not reach a verdict last night (May 4), and that they will resume deliberations today.

In the news story blogs, there is commentary from a blogger, who appears to have been in the courtroom, that Judge Lynn Winmill gave the defense huge grounds for an appeal, if it's necessary, in the egregious way that he denied the defense any chance to call their call their key witness, the audio expert, George Papcun. The way I am understanding what this blogger wrote, the judge denied the defense a chance to call Papcun at the upcoming trial in his April 20th pre-trial hearing. So the defense did not then subpoena Papcun, because they had been instructed that he could not be called. Then, at trial, the judge castigates the defense for not having subpoenaed the witness! What's this? Then, more craziness, the judge says on Monday, May 2, that Papcun will be allowed to testify by video the next day. So the defense stays up all night arranging this video equipment at both ends. But then, on Tuesday the judge has inexplicably changed his mind. What's this? This is a fair trial? Then the judge says, I'm only allowing this witness to appear in person. I've changed my mind, and you have to have him here by tomorrow (Wednesday) at 8:30am! And he's in Tahiti! And then the judge denies the defense even the few hours necessary to find a flight that would bring Papcun from Tahiti to Boise. What's this? This is a fair trial? The defense is denied its key witness? And then jerked around with changing decisions and impossible deadlines from the judge?

This is an asolutely appealable denial of a fair trial by the judge, in my opinion.


Boise jury deliberating in Steele trial - Spokesman.com - May 5, 2011

BOISE – A jury of 11 women and one man will continue deliberating today in the case of a North Idaho lawyer accused of hiring a man to kill his wife and mother-in-law.
Jurors deliberated for about four hours Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boise, where Edgar J. Steele’s trial began a week ago.
Steele’s lawyer, Robert McAllister, questioned the reliability of FBI recordings and said the plot was really the work of the prosecution’s key witness, Larry Fairfax. Assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Haws countered in his closing argument that the case is “simple”: Steele wanted his wife, Cyndi, killed so he could be with a 25-year-old Ukrainian woman he met through an online dating website.
Steele sent more than 14,000 online messages to women in what his lawyer and wife characterized as research into the Russian mail-order bride industry.
Although Steele’s fingerprints are not on the pipe bomb that was strapped under his wife’s car, Haws told jurors that his “legal fingerprints” are all over it.
Haws played portions of the recordings in which Steele and Fairfax discuss the plot to kill Cyndi Steele and her mother.
Haws read several quotes in which Steele urges Fairfax to “get this job done” and mentions the possible car insurance payment as a “powerful incentive.”
Haws also reminded jurors of Steele’s reaction when police falsely told him his wife was dead. Police described Steele’s reaction as flat and forced until they told him he was under arrest for murder for hire and a fecal odor filled the air.
“I would submit that his body reacted and told more truth than his mouth did,” Haws said.
Haws said jurors are to be more skeptical of Fairfax’s testimony because of his involvement in the case, but that everything Fairfax has said is supported by evidence.
In one of the recorded meetings with Steele, Fairfax is given $400 to travel to Portland. The FBI seized that money after the meeting.
“This is corroboration,” Haws said. “This says Mr. Fairfax was telling you the truth.”
But McAllister said all evidence in the case points not to his client but to the handyman Fairfax, who claims to have been hired by Steele to carry out the killings. The only ties Steele allegedly has to the pipe bomb came from Fairfax’s testimony, which McAllister said can’t be trusted.
The pipe bomb strapped to Cyndi Steele’s SUV was Fairfax’s “act of defiance,” McAllister said, referring to a book Fairfax has said he wants to write called “An Act of Defiance: Built on Lies and Deceit by the FBI.”
Daryl Hollingsworth, who met Fairfax and Steele in the Bonner County Jail, testified Wednesday that Fairfax asked him to design the cover to include a “picture of Larry Fairfax’s logging truck running over an Aryan Nations member.”
Steele was a lawyer for the Aryan Nations in a 2000 lawsuit that bankrupted the racist group.McAllister said the Steeles did have marital problems 10 years ago, but “the evidence in the next 10 years is that they raised their family,” lived in North Idaho and were happy.
“Never did Edgar Steele show anything besides love for his family,” McAllister said.
McAllister reminded jurors that Cyndi Steele said there were problems with the recordings, such as unexplained breaks and syntax issues.
“There is one conclusion about those recordings: they are nothing but tar,” McAllister said. “… It’s fantasy talk; it’s fiction; it’s Larry Fairfax talking and trying to set up Edgar Steele.”
“Unfortunately in real life, this is more than just trying to write a book, it’s putting people’s lives in danger,” McAllister said.
Haws said there’s no proof that the recordings are anything but authentic, that Steele would like jurors to think that a “Mission: Impossible” plot has been created by the government, but “the recordings themselves tell you they are accurate” from the flow and syntax to the presence of outside noises that carry through statements.
He said the idea that Fairfax could have “the sophistication and the tools” to put together a recording in the 30 minutes he was to visit with Steele is wrong.
“That can’t happen,” he said.
Steele faces at least 30 years in prison if convicted of his most serious charge – possession of a destructive device in relation to a crime of violence. He also is charged with the use of interstate commerce to commission murder for hire, use of explosive material to commit a federal felony and tampering with a victim.

Does anyone ever hear anything about Ed Steele or his family? How is Ed making out on the "inside".

I have always loved his articles. What a shame.
He may be out of sight but not forgotten by me.