Somehow, some way, feds have lost a witness
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Somehow, some way, feds have lost a witness
At least, the lawyer in a cop corruption case says, government hasn't said where he is
By David Hanners
dhanners@pioneerpress.com
Updated: 01/20/2009 06:49:29 AM CST
Taylor Winthrope Trump While it may seem difficult to hide — or even lose — someone as colorful as Taylor Winthorpe Trump, the lawyer for a Minneapolis police officer accused of corruption claims the government has done just that.
In new court documents, defense attorney F. Clayton Tyler claims Trump will be a key witness in the upcoming trial of Michael David Roberts, but he's not where he's supposed to be, and they can't find him to question him.
"Trump should be serving a 20-year federal sentence," Tyler wrote. He notes that while the U.S. Bureau of Prisons Web site listed him as "in transit" since last summer, the site "currently lists Trump as 'not in BOP custody.' "
Tyler has asked a federal judge to order government attorneys to disclose Trump's location.
Federal officials didn't return calls for comment Monday, a federal holiday. Tyler's office said he was out of town.
Trump, 47, is the man FBI agents used in a sting aimed at snaring Minneapolis police in the act of taking bribes. Critics claim the operation targeted minority officers, particularly ones who had filed a discrimination suit against the city.
Posing as a member of the Gangster Disciples street gang, Trump got Roberts, a 29-year veteran of the police force, to look up license plate information and a confidential police report, a federal indictment claims. Roberts later admitted to FBI agents he provided the information, but his attorney has said he plans to raise an entrapment defense at
trial, which is scheduled to start March 11 before U.S. District Judge Richard H. Kyle in St. Paul.
Trump grew up in Minneapolis as Rodney Keith Taylor. With an eye on business, at age 25, he legally changed his name to the more grandiose Taylor Winthorpe Trump after reading one of Donald Trump's books; he borrowed Winthorpe from a character in the 1983 Eddie Murphy-Dan Aykroyd movie "Trading Places."
He's had a colorful criminal and civil history: He owes more than $15,500 in unpaid judgments to former girlfriends, financial institutions and a pool-cleaning service. After serving time for a 1990 drug bust, he tackled the world of Internet entrepreneurship. He claimed to be an online marketing and sales expert and had Web sites pitching his insider secrets for a price.
Trump began working with federal agents after he was indicted on federal drug charges in June 2007. He claimed to know Minneapolis police who had provided confidential information in return for money. Among the officers he claimed to know was Lt. Lee Edwards, who was a top homicide cop before being reassigned.
Edwards is one of five minority officers who have sued the city, alleging discrimination in the police department. Roberts is not a plaintiff in the suit, but Tyler and others have claimed the city targeted minority officers in an initiative named "Operation Payback," seeking to catch them in wrongdoing.
Last month, a federal magistrate barred the city from destroying certain records involving Roberts, Edwards and others and specifically ordered that the city give Roberts access to overtime records for Operation Payback.
Anoka County prosecutors said earlier this month they wouldn't file criminal charges against Edwards. They were handling the case because of conflict-of-interest concerns in the Hennepin County attorney's office.
While he was working with FBI agents, Trump was under federal indictment for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, and he was later indicted in a mortgage-fraud scheme that accused him of wire fraud and conspiracy to launder money.
Tyler has said he plans to raise Trump's veracity and character as issues at Roberts' trial. Andrew Muller, an attorney representing Edwards, said that from what he's seen, Trump's honesty is ripe ground for a defense attorney.
"I think we would be able to show that as concerns Lee Edwards, Taylor Trump's statements to investigators were inaccurate and a cause for concern regarding his veracity," said Muller. "As concerns Lee Edwards, he's not reliable. Clearly not reliable."
In June, Kyle sentenced Trump to 240 months in federal prison and ordered him to spend 10 years on supervised release after he gets out. Although the plea agreement has not been made public, the judge in the case recommended that Trump serve his sentence at a federal prison in California.
In the mortgage fraud case, he and four others allegedly defrauded people of as much as $2.5 million. The charges filed by the U.S. attorney allege Trump recruited people to act as "straw buyers" for real estate purchases. The government claimed that from September 2005 to July 2007, Trump and four other people submitted loan applications with inflated property appraisals then pocketed the difference between the amount of the loan and the actual purchase price.
A week after being charged in that case, Trump signed a plea agreement with prosecutors in which he agreed to "cooperate with law enforcement authorities in the prosecution of and in the investigation of other suspects."
If prosecutors decide he has provided "substantial assistance," the government will ask that any prison time be reduced.
It wouldn't be the first time Trump made such a deal. After his 1990 arrest in what U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency officials called the biggest crack ring in Minnesota, prosecutors noted an "exceptional circumstance" and asked a judge to sentence Trump to less time than called for by federal sentencing guidelines.
After pleading guilty in that case, Trump was sentenced to four years and 10 months in prison.
When he sentenced Trump in June, Kyle remanded him to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. Soon after, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons' official Web site listed him as "in transit." He was listed that way for several months.
But Tyler said in an affidavit accompanying his motion he has been unable to find Trump. While the prison system's Web site lists Trump's inmate number (04775-041) and says he has a projected release date of Sept. 24, 2025, under "Location" it says, "NOT IN BOP CUSTODY."
"We are therefore requesting that the court issue an order directing the government to disclose to our office Trump's present location," the affidavit says.
David Hanners can be reached at 612-338-6516.
Folks, there is no mystery here.
Federal prisons are full. When convicted in federal court and sentence to serve time, the convict is put on an "in transit" status and housed in jails and prisons all over the U.S.until a bed opens up for them. For security reasons the feds have a policy of not telling anyone where the prisoner is. Good chance this guys family doesn't even know where he is.
Federal convicts refer to the "in transit" status as the "Magical Mystery Tour", because they have no clue where or when they will be transported next.
They need to find this guy and use him in an under cover sting to trap
DSI inspectors violating peoples rights !
Trap a few judges to.
Jeff Matiatos
He is probably in that desert prison where the convicts wear pink
underwear .
They may have contracted with Repke. Chuck's probably got the guy locked up in his basement.
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Most likely the guy cut a deal with the feds! I seen a prison record from someone else before and it that says NOT in BOP and it says that because that guy definitly cut a deal.
I have known Rodney Taylor for many years. He is Not the person depicted in articles that I have read. An academic, ? Most definitely! I have a sincere disbelief in the slander projected upon his integrity. On the other hand, mnpls. Police (4th precinct, !!!!) Well, to quote an accurate depiction of abuse of a Badge- etc.etc.etc!& a cop from Jersey told me that the 4TH (MINNEAPOLIS) ARE THE MOST CRIMINALLY INCINED ! DIRTY , UNETHICAL,CORRUPT -ASSHOLES! I SHOULD HAVE REPORTED THE COP SLEEPING UNDER THE BRIDGE ( MY TAX MONEY, RIGHT! ?) OR THE ONE THAT FELT ME UP (AFTER FOLLOWING ME FOR BLOCKS! CAN YOU BE WHITE ON THE NORTHSIDE . Taylor Trump has Intregity& just an intelligent brother that you wish you had the balls to be! KAPEESH?
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