Thursday, March 28, 2024

Congressman Demands Answers on What Led to Light Sentence for BLM Arsonist Who Killed Father of Five

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Rep. (R-Texas) wants answers as to why a man found guilty of setting a deadly fire during the received a light sentence.

Roy accused the of giving preferential treatment to criminals who share the current administration's views. (RELATED: Biden's ‘Guns First' Approach to Violent Crime Ignores Basic Facts)

In a terse letter, the Texas congressman demanded DOJ and the then-Acting U.S. Attorney for explain their leniency toward a career criminal who killed a father of five.

A press release from Roy's office reads in part:

The perpetrator, Montez Terriel Lee, Jr., set a pawn shop on fire during the 2020 riots in Minneapolis; that fire killed a father of five whose body was later discovered in the rubble. Lee had prior convictions for burglary, assault, violation of a no contact order, and theft of property, and was apparently under sentence for a previous at the time of this offense.

“This is a man that clearly has no respect for our laws,” wrote Rep. Roy. “Yet your office took pains to explain away and justify his actions.”

The sentencing brief for Mr. Lee “reads as if it were written by the defendant's counsel rather than the prosecuting attorney,” Rep. Roy pointed out.

In it, officials advocated for a significantly reduced sentence for Mr. Lee, calling him “angry, frustrated, and disenfranchised” by racial and the George Floyd killing, even invoking Dr. Martin Luther King's words to explain away Mr. Lee's crime.

Rep. Roy demanded to know whether political influence from Main Justice played a role the low sentence, accusing DOJ of downplaying violence because the defendant held the administration's preferred political views.

“The principle of equal justice under the law demands that favor not be given based on political views. However, it would appear that Mr. Lee is enjoying the benefits of kid-gloved, preferential treatment in this case because he committed violence in furtherance of the preferred political views of your office and the current administration,” Rep. Roy concluded.

W. Anders Folk
Office of the Deputy Attorney General
U.S.
950 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20530

Dear Mr. Folk:

On November 4, 2021, you filed, in your former capacity as the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota, a Position of the United States with Respect to Sentencing in the case of United States v. Montez Terriel Lee, Jr. The document reads as if it were written by the defendant's counsel rather than the prosecuting attorney and, in it, your office advocated for a significant downward departure from the Sentencing Guidelines, asking for a term of imprisonment of 144 months with a guideline range of 235-240 months. I write to determine how you arrived at this decision and who influenced it.

Mr. Lee set a building on fire during the 2020 riots in Minneapolis, resulting in the death of another human being. Mr. Lee is a career criminal: he has prior convictions for burglary, assault, violation of a no contact order, and theft of property. He was apparently still under sentence for a previous crime at the time of this offense. This is a man that clearly has no respect for our laws. Yet your office took pains to explain away and justify his actions. You wrote, calling this an “extraordinary case,” that Mr. Lee was simply feeling “angry, frustrated, and disenfranchised” and his actions were an attempt “to give voice to those feelings.” Invoking the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, you stated that Mr. Lee “appears to have believed that he was, in Dr. King's eloquent words, engaging in ‘the language of the unheard'.” It is hard to understand why the representative for the United States is taking great pains to minimize the actions of a defendant with a significant criminal history who committed a violent crime that cost another man his life.

In order to better understand how your office arrived at this recommendation and the decision to draft such an extraordinary document, please respond to the following questions regarding the development of your recommendations:
 

1. Who in your office at the time contributed to, or participated in, the drafting of this document?

2. Did anyone at Main Justice in Washington, D.C. contribute to, participate in, or have knowledge of the sentencing recommendation of 144 months?

3. Did anyone in your office at the time speak to anyone at Main Justice about this case before filing your recommendation with the court?

4. You cited four comparative cases in which “arson or the detonation of a destructive device took a human life.” Please provide the Sentencing Guideline ranges for each of these defendants as well as the recommendation of the United States Attorney in each of those cases.

The principle of equal justice under the law demands that favor not be given based on political views. However, it would appear that Mr. Lee is enjoying the benefits of kid-gloved, preferential treatment in this case because he committed violence in furtherance of the preferred political views of your office and the current administration. As a member of the House Judiciary Committee with oversight over the Department of Justice, I sincerely hope that was not the case; but given the words and actions of this Attorney General, his FBI, and his federal prosecutors over the course of the past year, I would not find it surprising in the least.

Please provide a response to this letter, and answers to the above questions, within 30 days.

Thank you for your attention in this matter.

Sincerely,

Chip Roy
Member of

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Donny Ferguson
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Donny Ferguson is a professional fundraiser and organizational manager. Born and raised in Texas, he has lived in Washington, D.C. for 16 years. Ferguson also served as Senior Communications and Policy Adviser in the United States House of Representatives, operating one of Capitol Hill's most effective media operations.

3 COMMENTS

  1. What sentence did this criminal receive for burning a building down with a human being inside? And will he be eligible for early parole? This is insane. And was anyone held accountable for the killing of retired police chief David Dorn, who was violently murdered while Facebook allowed a live video? I know there were charges, but I can’t find the sentencing?

  2. The Biden regime and his loyal ministers in the DOJ, FBI, etc. risk “disenfranchising” the entire country for one “disenfranchised” life long criminal who committed yet another crime. A crime that took a life. I don’t believe these traitors have any intention of going back to obeying the law, or being Americans. They hate America, want to change it to a Marxist utopia, and have no use for the customs and laws of the people who built this country. They simply don’t exist to them. They go about mandating, banning and making a mockery of America. How long are we going to put up with this?

  3. Not only should this murderer be sentenced to death, but the prosecutor, for permitting this criminal ultimate freedom, must fired and prosecuted for allowing this killer the opportunity to kill again

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