Dana El-Kurd

Just tow it, unquote.

The support committee wrote that, quote, prosecution replayed this section, characterizing it as Rieda trying to get rid of evidence.

Rieda says to, quote-unquote, retrieve her items from the vehicle, does not refer to her items using the word evidence, and does not say hide, destroy, or conceal.

Dez never actually got to this car or the phone.

He explained that the vehicle would be repoed.

But Royeda also said in this call, quote, move whatever you need to move in the house.

The support committee wrote that, quote, prosecution argued this meant moving evidence.

Defense noted she was talking about pets at the time, unquote.

On the call, Dez mentioned that he had already been at the house and replied, quote, unquote, were good in reference to moving stuff from the house.

The defense questioned how they could have conspired out of order, right?

Because the government claims there was a conspiracy to conceal documents.

But Dez here said that he moved things before he actually got on this phone call with his wife.

The FBI answered that Dez just had already acquired the necessary information to act, just not directly from his wife.

Dez was found guilty of, quote, corruptly concealing a document or record by transporting a box containing numerous Antifa materials such as insurrection planning, anti-law enforcement, anti-government, and anti-immigration enforcement documents and propaganda, intending to conceal the box's contents and impair its availability for use,

in a federal grand jury and federal criminal proceedings, unquote.

That's from the DOJ.

He and his wife, Rueda, were found guilty of conspiracy to conceal documents and other objects that would implicate Rueda in the riot and shooting at the Prairieland facility, also according to the Department of Justice.

So basically, this was an evidence-tampering charge, a concealing evidence charge.

The actual...

presence of the zines was not the crime, but the government argued that the zines themselves were evidence or that Dez suspected they could be evidence, and that's why he moved them from his wife's house to this other location.