Even while he was assisting the FBI, Stephen Robeson allegedly used a fake charity to defraud a Wisconsin couple out of an SUV.
A key FBI informant in the Michigan kidnapping case has been charged with fraud, adding to the potential complications facing prosecutors in the high-profile domestic terrorism case.last week in Sauk County, Wisconsin, with defrauding a couple out of an SUV by convincing them to donate it to an anti–child sex trafficking charity that did not exist, according to the criminal complaint. His wife, Kimberly Robeson, was also charged.
But just over four months after the takedown, prosecutors made the highly unusual move of indicting their own informant and charging him in federal court with illegally possessing a firearm, a .50-caliber sniper rifle he bought from an acquaintance from church just two weeks before the arrests in Michigan. Robeson eventuallyin a deal that offered him time served and two years probation, an unusually light sentence that was far below sentencing guidelines for a recidivist felon.
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