The men cried as they hugged their lawyers and supporters.
Authorities have said an attack on Whitmer began to simmer at a regional summit of anti-government extremists in Dublin, Ohio, in summer 2020. Fox, Croft and William Null were in attendance while an FBI informant also inside the gathering secretly recorded profanity-laced screeds threatening violence against public officials.
Molitor, 39, and William Null, 41, testified in their own defense, admitting they had attended gun drills and taken rides to check Whitmer's property. But William Null said he and his brother broke away when talk turned to getting explosives. Molitor said Fox was"incredibly dumb" and wouldn't pull off a kidnapping."If you help in whole or even in part you've satisfied that element" of the crime, Rollstin said in his closing argument Wednesday.
Informants and undercover FBI agents were inside the group for months before arrests were made in October 2020. Whitmer was not physically harmed.
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