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“I tried to tell him I didn't know and showed him where the grass was growing up between the blades of my bulldozers to prove that I hadn't done it,” Waite explained.

cat work in the federal forest, Green and his posse of armed men seized all 48 cords of firewood at gunpoint.

Several months later, May 5, 1999, Waite was job function email list indicted for “willfully retaining U.S. property in excess of $1,000....with intent to convert the property to his own use or gain,” and two counts of perjury. Waite pled not guilty on all counts because that was the truth.


This was not the first time the truthful and honorable Waite had experienced the bureaucratic wrath of Green. In 1995 Green filed criminal charges against Waite in Idaho District Federal Court for plowing a USFS road that led to a mining claim and some property owned by Waite and his family.

Green claimed that Waite had damaged the road with his bulldozer. Waite, who had been building roads and operating heavy equipment in the area for some 30 years, does not believe that a road full of potholes is damaged after you've filled in the potholes.

Rather than waste his limited resources by hiring an attorney in this frivolous matter, Waite defended himself. He showed Federal Magistrate Judge Larry Boyle the statute that authorizes him to keep the road to his private property open even if the road crosses through federal land.