OFF THE WIRE
agingrebel.com
The RICO case against members and associates of the Hells Angels Motorcycle
Club in Columbia, South Carolina is Orwellian. The post-arrest, pretrial trap
the prosecution built and baited for the lead defendant in the Case, Daniel
Eugene “Diamond Dan” Bifield, proves that. O’Brien (first name redacted for
reasons of state security) would have been proud.
Dan Bifield, who was the principal target of simultaneous federal
investigations in North and South Carolina, pled guilty to racketeering
conspiracy on January 3. He confessed his guilt, in his own words, to “help
Lisa.” Bifield, who maintains he was entrapped and lied about, explained why he
agreed to plead guilty.
What Dan Bifield Thought
“I’m taking a plea deal,” he wrote. “I’m not doing this for myself. I’m doing
it for my wife Lisa.”
“They have offered my wife 14 years to plead guilty and if she goes to trial
and gets found guilty they’ll ask for the 20 years. Her lawyer, family and
friends are telling her to take the deal and not go to trial. Lisa is so afraid
and worried about not seeing or being with her 14-year-old daughter! I feel so
bad for her and I am so worried about her. Being the man I am and her husband I
have no choice but to help her.
“So I am pleading guilty to conspiracy to RICO and I will receive 20 years.
They will drop all charges against my wife except for one gun charge which she
will plead guilty to and be sentenced to five years. But, she should be home in
about three years or maybe less if the judge decides! I really didn’t like the
deal because I wanted her to go home with no more time or very little time. But
this is a one time deal only and they gave me a week to decide. It’s more like
extortion than a plea deal!
“I told the lawyers I wanted to see and talk to my wife before I did anything
so they set up a visit for us on Thursday (December 27, 2012). My lawyers were
there, the prosecutors, my wife and her lawyer. I asked everybody to leave the
room so I could talk to Lisa. They left one person to watch us.
“I asked Lisa what she wanted to do. She said ‘Please take the deal so I can
go home to my daughter again.’ She said, ‘I am so scared to go to trial and that
we’ll lose!’ She said, ‘I’ll always love you and when I come home I’ll come see
you and take care of you.’
“So I kissed her and I signed the plea agreement.”
Justice In Hell
Lisa Bifield, Dan Bifield’s wife, had already helped herself. She made a
secret deal with the inquisitors supervising the case last July. The deal,
simply stated was, “Take him, not me. I promise I’ll give you anything you
want.”
Dan Bifield found out last Friday. Friends described him as “surprised.”
Reliable sources have said his lawyers were also surprised.
The prosecutors – starting with United States Attorney William N. Nettles –
whose jobs are to seek justice and truth on behalf of all the people and who are
all officially presumed to be truthful in the course of their duties, turn out
to be a cabal of lying sons of bitches. An informed source said that it is easy
to underestimate “to what extent Lisa, her attorney, and the Feds went to hide
her deal and that she was cooperating They all lied to Dan and his attorneys to
pressure Dan to plea. He thought he was helping Lisa and her deal was already
made. They all lied to Dan and his attorney’s to get him to plead.”
Another source said that Mrs. Bifield may be as immoral as a federal
prosecutor. “I think she flipped because she cares about only one
person…herself.” Whatever her motivations are, her cooperation was essential to
the production of a superseding indictment last September.
There are strong indications that three other defendants in the case may also
be cooperating with prosecutors. It is at least possible that these defendants
are also victims of prosecutorial psychopathy. They may or may not have been
blackmailed or duped into testifying. Whatever they do or don’t say, they did
not make the case.
The case against Dan and Lisa Bifield and 18 other defendants was made by a
small cadre of five informants who were paid to find what prosecutors wanted
them to find. The names of all five are still officially secret. They are all
identified in legally obtained documents as Confidential Human Sources. Their
names, and a taste of official statements about their parts in the investigation
follow.
CHS-1
The investigation began with a tip from Confidential Human Source Number 1.
CHS-1 was Rodger ‘Screwy’ Totherow, the manager of a Rock Hill, South Carolina
nightclub.
“CHS-1 stated “in December 2009 he sold an ‘8-ball’ of cocaine to Bifield.
CHS-1 began working as a confidential source for the FBI in October 2010 and
continued cooperating until he was deactivated as a source in December
2010.”
“CHS-1’s primary motivation was financial gain. However, CHS-1 first began
working as a source to receive law enforcement assistance with gun and drug
charges. CHS-1 confirmed Bifield’s leadership….”
CHS-2
“CHS-2 (Marty ‘Cowboy’ Deloach) began working as a confidential source for
the FBI in March 2011. CHS-2’s primary motivations have been financial gain and
the betterment of the community.”
CHS-3
“In March 2011 CHS-3 (Joseph Dilulio) was interviewed. CHS-3 knows Bifield
and other HAs….”
“CHS-3 advised that Dan Bifield, Bruce Long and Jason Fogle were selling what
CHS-3 believed was stolen property (gold) to him during the previous two or
three months.”
“CHS-3 borrowed $10,000 through Bifield and Long. Bifield demanded that CHS-3
pay $500 in interest every week.”
“CHS-3 advised that Bifield would meet various people at CHS-3’s store and
pass out envelopes with money in them. Bifield told CHS-3 that he was sellin
‘8-balls.’
“During a January 5, 2012 meeting, CHS-3 arranged to buy 8 ounces of “clear”
(which Agent Mahoney explained is code for methamphetamine) for $16,000.”
“…in a recorded meeting, CHS-3 paid Oiler $36,000 in advance for a kilogram
of cocaine.”
CHS-4
“In April 2011 CHS-4, (Anthony Lang acting with his girlfriend Brandy
Mitchum) began working as a confidential source for the FBI and continued until
May 2011.”
“CHS-4’s primary motivation has been financial gain, however he first began
working as a source to receive law enforcement assistance with state larceny
charges.”
“CHS-4 was made aware that he would be required to testify when he purchased
contraband under the direction of agents.”
“CHS-4’s girlfriend told Bifield that CHS-4 has stolen electronics from cars
in Rock Hill.”
“Bifield told CHS-4 that he wanted him to steal electronics for him. Bifield
said he would pay CHS-4 with stolen jewelry.”
“CHS-4 said Bifield asked him about transporting a big load of meth.”
“CHS-4, provided information that Kerry Chitwood of the Southern Gentlemen
purchased cocaine from someone named Carlos. Although CHS-4 did not know
Carlos’s last name, he did know that Carlos owned a business named Hi-Tech
Stucco and that Carlos’s workers delivered cocaine while driving Hi-Tech Stucco
work trucks. CHS-4 also revealed that Carlos’s employees had transported
methamphetamine in a Hi-Tech Stucco work truck to Chitwood at the Southern
Gentlemen clubhouse.”
“The information provided by CHS-4 supported probable Cause.”
“CHS-4 was not an anonymous tipster but an individual identified by officers
as a potential trial witness. CHS-4 provided information about Kerry Chitwood
despite his fear of motorcycle gangs. The willingness of CHS-4 to provide this
information and potentially serve as a witness also supports the credibility of
his statements; when CHS-4 does testify at trial, his identity will be revealed
to the defendants. It is less likely that an informant will provide false
information about individuals whom the informant fears when the informant knows
that his identity may have to be disclosed to those individuals.”
“Materials concerning this individual shall be produced by the Government to
defense counsel five (5) business days prior to the individual being called as a
witness in the trial of this matter.”
