Two Louisiana Men Indicted for Threatening to Retaliate Against a Witness in a Federal Tax Trial

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2013-07-29

U.S. Justice Department announced that a federal grand jury in Baton Rouge, La., returned an indictment charging Anthony Williams and Bobby Riley with conspiring to threaten to retaliate against a witness in a federal trial, threatening to retaliate against a witness in a federal trial and making false statements to federal agents.

According to the indictment, Williams and Riley, both residents of Baton Rouge, threatened to cause bodily injury to a witness who testified in the federal trial of United States v. Angela Myers. The indictment alleges that Williams and Riley made a threat via Instagram with the intent to retaliate against the witness for his testimony in the Myers trial. In March 2013, Myers was convicted by a jury of twenty-one federal felonies in a stolen identity tax refund fraud prosecution. The indictment also alleges that Williams and Riley made false statements to federal agents in March 2013.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice

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