Allegation with Whitmer plot FBI agent delays battle on entrapment – By Darcie Moran (Detroit Free Press) / December 20, 2021
Three men accused of supporting others in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer were slated to try to get their cases tossed Monday, but the agenda took a turn when a defense attorney raised concerns about one of the FBI agents in the case.
Pete Musico, 44; his son-in-law, Joseph Morrison, 27; and Paul Bellar, 23, appeared Monday morning in Jackson County’s 4th Circuit Court to argue — among a slew of motions — their stance that they were entrapped by the FBI and an informant. Meanwhile, the Attorney General’s Office sought to add the charge of making a threat of terrorism to the men’s cases — one a lower court judge previously threw out.
However, Bellar’s attorney, Andrew Kirkpatrick, requested that the entrapment motion be pushed back, citing news that federal prosecutors said in a filing Friday that they don’t intend to call FBI Special Agent Henrik Impola to testify in their portion of the case; 14 men total are charged across the state and federal level.
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