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Suit Seeks to Expose BOP 'Suicide' Cover-up
Loaded on July 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1997, page 17
A former U.S. Congressman and his organization are offering a $10,000 reward in the death of Kenneth Michael Trentadue. Congressman George Hansen says the U.S. Citizens Human Rights Commission is offering the money for the identification, indictment and conviction of the people responsible for Trentadue's death.One fact is not …
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