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| FBI paid mortgage on Nichols' home, documents show |
| 2005-08-13 |
| It's not really opinion, but it's not news, either. I was fooling around on google today and I came across this tidbit. Does anyone know what the original source was for this story? Can anyone confirm this is the same house the FBI recovered the explosives from earlier this year? Between that and this (link) I'm thinking that the Feds knew it was there the whole time. The FBI made mortgage payments on Terry Nichols' home after he was arrested and before he was convicted of conspiring to bomb the Oklahoma City federal building, according to new court documents. A Justice Department spokeswoman said Tuesday she did not know why the government made the payments nor the amount. The small, frame house is in Herington, Kansas, where Nichols was living with his wife and their two children when the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was bombed April 19, 1995. The mortgage payments were disclosed by Nichols' lawyers in a court filing Monday, part of Nichols' arguments that he does not have sufficient assets to pay a fine or restitution. |
| Posted by:Jaising Chinerong2087 |
| #1 I assume the gov. made the mortgage payments to preserve evidence. Otherwise the house would have been foreclosed and sold off. It was the same house that the explosives were found. It was stored in a crawl space and it was a tip-off that caused the feds to search the house again. I am surprised the feds didn't use (my assumption) an explosives sniffer diring the first search. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-08-13 23:25 |