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January 9, 2015

Environmentalist Freed from Prison After 9 Years; Gov't Admits Withholding Documents 
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An environmental activist sentenced to 19 years in prison for
"ecoterrorism" in what his supporters say was a case of FBI entrapment
has been released after serving nine years. Eric Mc David was convicted
of plotting to bomb sites in California including the Nimbus Dam. But
his attorneys say he was entrapped by a teenage informant who supplied
him with food, housing and bomb-making instructions, and pressured him
into illegal activity. As part of a settlement, federal prosecutors
acknowledged withholding evidence in the case, including an FBI request
for the informant to undergo a lie-detector test. Mc David was released
after pleading guilty to a conspiracy charge.