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...beneath the Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995. Prosecutors based their case on evidence that showed McVeigh planned the bombing, rented the Ryder truck, moved into a nearby motel to make preparations and bought a 1977 Mercury as a getaway car. The testimony of McVeigh's friend Michael Fortier, who admitted to helping McVeigh plan the bombing, and the traces of explosives found on McVeigh's clothing were particularly damning. And McVeigh's team failed to present a plausible alternative scenario...
...Michael Fortier may have been a good citizen after the Oklahoma bombing, but he was still a villain beforethe crime ?- and what a crime it was. That was apparently what weighed on U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Van Bebber?s mind as he refused to abate ?- despite an appellate court?s clear wishes that he do so ?- the 12-year sentence he had given Fortier a year ago. Ordered by the appeals court to use new, lowered sentencing guidelines (involuntary manslaughter instead of first-degree murder), Bebber stuck by his guns. TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen...
...Fortier lawyer Michael McGuire argued to no avail that the four years his client has already served was enough ?- that Fortier was "cast aside conveniently" by the government after helping to bring Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols to justice after the carnage. "This man was the difference in both of those cases, your honor," said McGuire. "This man has given a lot. I don't know if he'll be credited for it. He should be given credit." For Bebber, a reduction from 171 1/2 years to 12 was more than enough "credit" for a man who pleaded guilty...
...that a 1% hike in health-insurance costs would cause around 200,000 people to lose their coverage. Four out of five respondents to a recent survey rejected federal regulation of managed-care plans. Perhaps they, unlike Carlson, are aware that more federal regulation means more uninsured. MICHAEL P. FORTIER Vice President, Federal Affairs Health Insurance Association of America Washington...
...Fortier said he wants more than anything to be released from prison so he can rejoin his family. Tigar responded: "And you're a man who would lie just to have a gun, aren't you, sir?" Fortier responded: "I did do that...