Steve Korotash person
also: Kortash, Korotash
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Claims (2)
Steve Korotash covered_up
Scott Weakley documented
“When Weakley explained the C4 had been safely detonated in the Nevada desert, he said the prosecutors offered him a deal. If he kept quiet and pled guilty to illegally transporting the C4 to Las Vegas, he would be released on unsupervised p…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 50:24
Steve Korotash covered_up
James Bo Gritz host_asserted
“I didn't have a clue. He thought Gritz was an idiot, but others didn't find him so unbelievable. A month later, federal agents raided his home in Sandy Valley, Nevada, hauling away boxes of paperwork. Simultaneously, Weakley began receiving…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 55:12
Mentions (10)
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Southwest Regional Director of the U.S. Customs Service, to the National Security Council, and to a defense contractor by the name of United Technologies. The agents broke the news to federal prosecutor Kortash, who was not pleased. The sto…
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My first thought was, oh, great. Here I am picking my nose in Oklahoma. And now I've stumbled, stumbled, stumbled onto the Contra deal. That's what I thought this was. And I can remember thinking, how the hell did I get a hold of a case lik…
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And it kept right on bouncing all the way to the top of the criminal division of the U.S. Justice Department in Washington. Records show that on December 2nd, 1986, Assistant U.S. Attorney General William Weld, W-E-L-D, was briefed on the c…
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at a downtown Holiday Inn. Weakley had just returned from his latest POW hunt with Bo Gritz, allegedly on behalf of the National Security Council, but he discovered that the agents, accompanied by Oklahoma City Federal Prosecutor Steve Koro…
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When Weakley explained the C4 had been safely detonated in the Nevada desert, he said the prosecutors offered him a deal. If he kept quiet and pled guilty to illegally transporting the C4 to Las Vegas, he would be released on unsupervised p…
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Weekly later testified to that point. Prosecutor Korotash denies everything. The next morning, Weekly and Korotash flew to Oklahoma City where the prosecutor began hurriedly telling me all the answers that I was to give to the officials and…
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Torsley pleaded guilty to interstate transportation of explosives. Under Kortesh's general questioning, he admitted to shipping plastic explosives on two commercial airliners to Las Vegas, but was never asked why. Kortesh helpfully pointed …
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Grits, as they always do when somebody's telling the truth, it received some wire service and radio coverage, particularly in Oklahoma City. Weekly's prosecutor, Steve Korotash, was driving to the supermarket when he heard Grits come over t…
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not to finger anyone. That was their deal, not his. Weakley was protesting the hell out of, protecting the hell out of Bo Gritz. When Weakley's sentencing on the explosive case rolled around in April 1987, Kortash filed a confidential memor…
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They're very good at covering shit up. They're very good at intimidating people, bribing people. It's next to impossible to go to war with them. Because if they can't silence you short of death, they will kill you. I mean, these people are …