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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOregon judge plans to bill Ammon Bundy up to $70,000 a day for security costs to county
An Oregon judge says he will bill Ammon Bundy up to $70,000 a day to reimburse Harney County for security costs related to the ongoing occupation of a wildlife refuge.
Local schools reopened Monday for the first time since Bundy and other militants seized a visitors center Jan. 2 at the Malheur National Wildlife Preserve and demanded the transfer of federally owned land to the county, reported KTVZ-TV.
Bundy and other militants used a backhoe owned by the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife to remove fences separating federal land from property owned by a local rancher.
Bundy said the militants had rifled through files at the occupied building looking for evidence of wrongdoing, but he insisted they had not accessed computers although public radio reporters witnessed them doing that.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/oregon-judge-plans-to-bill-ammon-bundy-up-to-70000-a-day-for-security-costs-to-county/
randys1
(16,286 posts)and they wont.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)for him. Unless the Federal Government takes action these people will only become bolder.
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)can't just add that to his father's tab, but likely he will do the same unless there are real teeth, and ignore it.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,459 posts)... seeking the assessment? The local government? The Feds? Not aware of any precedent that says a judge can just assess fines on his own.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Learned that with BLM.