![]() Three weeks before the 2016 presidential election, Brian and Stein met inside a local McDonald’s restaurant. “That’s where the bromance kicks in, because Patrick says, ‘Oh, there’s no way Brian’s a cop.’” The takedown “I didn't think he'd go through with it,” Mattivi said of Stein.īut then “much to my surprise, and the surprise of a few others, Patrick actually shows up,” Mattivi recalled. “That's another sort of ‘Oh s-’ moment for ,” Mattivi said, explaining that Allen’s arrest could have pushed Stein and Wright to “hurry up and commit a different act of violence,” or could have at least stymied the FBI investigation.Īfter all, according to Mattivi, Wright warned Stein to scrap his next meet-up with Brian. “It’s starting to sound like a CIA setup.” “It just sounds weird,” he said on one recording. Wright liked the idea of acquiring a bomb from someone Day knew and trusted: “That beats making it unless we have to,” Wright said. “ guys, they’re the real deal,” Day is heard insisting in one of his recordings. Day had vaguely mentioned such connections to Stein months earlier, so it wouldn’t have seemed out of the blue to Stein. ![]() Under the FBI’s direction, Day told the group at G&G one day that he had ties to gun-running criminals in Oklahoma with access to “anything,” even bombs. The FBI decided it was time to introduce an undercover agent into the operation - someone who could “get them away from making their own explosives” and help the FBI control the plot, Kuhn said. “But he felt like there was no way he could stop.” The group’s plot was developing faster than the FBI expected, and Day “was petrified of continuing to work as an informant,” Mattivi said.
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