Lawyer for Accused Arizona Bomber Calls US Informant a 'Trailer-Park Mata Hari'
A lawyer representing a man accused in an Arizona package bombing told federal jurors in Phoenix on Thursday that a government informant in the case was a “trailer-park Mata Hari” who dressed in skimpy clothing and displayed a Confederate flag.
Defense lawyer Deborah Williams said the informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives moved into the Oklahoma trailer park where her client and his twin brother were staying, according to stories by the Associated Press and the Arizona Republic.
The informant wore shorts and tank tops and sent the twins racy photos, the AP story says. One picture showed the woman in front of a pickup truck and a swastika wearing a white bikini top and sporting a grenade between her breasts. She was promised $100,000 if the prosecution is successful, Williams asserted.
Williams’ client, Dennis Mahon, is accused of conspiracy along with his twin brother in a 2004 package bombing that injured the diversity director for Scottsdale, Ariz. Williams told jurors that the only conspiracy involving her client was a “conspiracy of lust,” AP says.
Court records allege Dennis Mahon showed the informant how to make a bomb. He told her, however, that he didn’t send the Scottsdale bomb, but persuaded white police officers to do it.
