Timothy McVeigh's purported involvement with a group of bank robbers may find its way into a bank robbery trial currently going on in Columbus, Ohio. Currently Langan is standing trial for robberies of two Ohio banks in 1994. Scott Stedeford has already been tried and convicted for one of the robberies and still faces charges for several others. McCarthy and Guthrie had earlier pled guily to numerous robberies and entered into plea agreements to testify for the government. Last July, only days after entering into a plea deal, Richard Guthrie was found hanged in his jail cell.
Authorities contend it was suicide.
In a video tape obtained by the McCurtain Gazette, Peter Langan appears in disguise while he explains to potential recruits that the goal of the ARA is the overthrow of the federal government and the subsequent execution of all Jews and the deportation of all non-whites from the United States. Thus far, authorities have revealed little that ties McVeigh to the ARA, but the Gazette has now learned that an ATF paid informant has linked McVeigh and his ex-army buddy Michael Fortier to Elohim City and several members of the bank robbery scheme. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the confidential informant said that the Tulsa office of the ATF was conducting surveillance and collecting data on residents of Elohim City prior to and after the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building. During this period, the ATF confidential informant recalled visits by McVeigh and Fortier to the compound along with regular visits by Langan, Guthrie, Stedeford and McCarthy. As well, the informant reported that conversations and videotapes of some members of the ARA were passed along to the informant's handler, Special Agent Angela Finley of the Tulsa ATF office.