A Review of Larry Clint Wooten's Claims of Misconduct by Dan Love in the Gold Butte Investigation by Kent Kleman
Late Saturday evening more documents were released in relation to Clint Wooten's investigative materials on Cliven Bundy's Gold Butte allotment and cattle impound. Kent Kleman conducted the review, he is reported to be Assistant Special Agent In Charge with the Bureau Of Land Management. Kleman conducted an interview with Wooten concerning the matters of misconduct and criminal activity by Dan Love, Special Agent In Charge of Nevada/Utah BLM. Kleman reports that as he reviewed Wooten's case materials, including notes from his calendars. Kleman said he viewed Wooten's notes for which he was preparing to use in a conference call with the Prosecutors in the case, the headings on the page were "Potential Issues and Critical Vulnerablities". The subheadings read:
1. BLM was heavy handed even cruel in the enforcement of the court order.
2. BLM lacked law enforcement authority in their case.
3. BLM is a poor manager of the resources such as grazing.
4. Dan Love had a personal agenda and is immoral.
Kleman also stated that Wooten believes that the BLM is in violation of the law regarding its law enforcement authority and, the BLM didn't turn over required exculpatory material and destroyed evidence, such as shredded documents at dispatch, texts and emails that make officers look unprofessional, and gaps in the dispatch audio recordings. Kleman also interviewed Special Agents Kyle Gandiaga and Rand Stover. Stover denied hearing Dan Love say to "kick Cliven in the teeth". Both Stover and Gandiaga told of an incident in which the BLM agents were gathered together for a briefing before they implemented their "impound" plan in which Stover was supposed to perform the motivational speech as per Dan Love's instructions. Stover's deliberate, measured and clam demeanor was to much for Dan Love to take so he took matters into his own hands as he interrupted Stover in the middle of his speech, in front of everyone. Love told the group assembled "we are not going to gather the cattle on the fringes, we are going to do it right in front of Cliven Bundy to let him know we are serious"! Gandiaga said, "Loves' speech was like a halftime pep talk delivered by a coach to motivate his players".
Read the details in the report below and share it with everyone you know.
I, for one, am sick and tired of government agencies censoring public records that are supposed to be open to us, The People. I don't know how many times I have been through this database and was unable to find an employee that is confirmed to have been employed by us and to find they are not in the system they claim to be a part of, and Federal Prosecutors "claim" these witnesses are government employees but cant be verified by The People. Most of these government witnesses if in the system, their files are redacted when this information, we've been told, is supposed to be available to us. We should start demanding that they prove their employment by being in the Public Domain where they can be accountable to The People. Out of 130 "Wooten's" in the system NOT ONE contains the file of Larry Clint Wooten. Kent Kleman referred to him as "Clint". I have been unable to find him in the system. Kent Kleman is also not in the system. There is a Gandiaga and a Stover but not the ones named in this report. These names seem unique, but there seem to be a lot of employees with the same sir name. Maybe some nepotism going on?
The Inspector General's Office initiated an investigation into Daniel P. Love in October 2015, after receiving two anonymous complaints concerning a Supervisory Agent, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Office of Law Enforcement and Security (OLES), Salt Lake City, UT.
Salvatore Lauro’s Knowledge of the Supervisory Agent’s Actions include this statement.
“in fact we probably could have written it
before it happened because he’s had like eight anonymous complaints in the last two years.”
The agent also is accused of
bragging that he “owned” the national director of BLM’s Office of Law
Enforcement and Security and that nothing would happen to him.
According to the report, Love
told the woman she better do damage control after the investigation
began in 2015. Once he was removed from his position, she said he told
her: “You know, if you don’t side with me, grenades are going to go off
and you’ll get hit.”
The Supervisory Agent's Misconduct Charges Include, Favor from Prohibited Source at Nevada's Burning Man Event, Agent Seeks Favor from BRC for Special Passes to (BME), Misuse of OLES Personnel and BLM-Procured, All-Terrain and Utility Type Vehicle, Agent’s Disregard for the Accommodations Directive and Allegations of Meals at BLM’s Expense, Agent’s Misuse of a Government-owned Vehicle, Lodging for the Supervisory Agent’s Family, including Agent’s Influence On the Hiring Process and Reference Checks for the Supervisory Agent’s Friend, and the Agent’s Attempts to Influence Employee Testimony and Employee Concerns of Retaliation.
A link to the report released to the public is included in the article below.
SALT LAKE CITY Deseret News Reports — The Interior Department’s Office of Inspector
General investigated an unnamed Bureau of Land Management supervisory
agent in Salt Lake City for more than a year on ethics complaints, with
the independent panel concluding that breaches had occurred.
The agent, which the Deseret News has confirmed is Dan Love through a
source familiar with the investigation, is accused of using his
position to secure preferential treatment for his family during the 2015
Burning Man event in Nevada, including using federal law enforcement
officers as personal escorts for their safety, using his BLM vehicle to
transport his girlfriend and allowing her to share overnight BLM lodging
with him.
The national office of the BLM released a statement on the
investigation, saying it takes the allegations of misconduct seriously.
“These types of allegations do not align with our mission or the
professionalism and dedication of our 10,000 employees doing essential
work for America’s public lands each and every day. This is an internal
personnel matter under review by the BLM, and we have no additional
information to provide at this time,” said spokesman Michael Richardson.
Efforts to reach Love for comment were unsuccessful and BLM officials
had no additional information on his current status of employment with
the agency.
According to the Office of Inspector General report, Burning
Man organizers said Love asked for, and was granted, special access for
him and his family inside a restricted area to watch the “Man Burn
event” in an area typically reserved for event organizers and the
pyrotechnics crew.
Because of scrutiny surrounding the agent’s role in a request for a
$1 million “luxury” compound to take care of BLM needs for the event,
the report said the supervisory agent purchased tickets from the
attorney representing the event’s for-profit subsidiary and at full
price because he knew people “would be looking.”
Although unnamed in the inspector general’s report, Love — who was
the top cop for Utah and Nevada before being promoted to a national
position — was linked to many of the requests associated with the luxury
compound, according to emails obtained in an investigative news story
cited in the report.
The Office of Inspector General, which is tasked with independent
oversight and accountability of the Interior Department, launched the
investigation in September of 2015 based on a pair of anonymous
complaints.
Love has been at the center of multiple complaints by rural sheriff
offices in Utah about the deteriorating relationship between the BLM and
their officers.
They’ve cited Love in particular for an attitude they
say is dismissive and uncooperative. At least one county sheriff and six
county commissioners traveled to Washington, D.C., in 2014 to express
their frustration and ask for his removal.
Love led a controversial artifacts trafficking raid in the Blanding
area in 2009 and was involved in the armed standoff on the Utah-Nevada
border with the Cliven Bundy family over unpaid grazing fees.
Dan Love talks to media following failed BLM raid on the Bundy Ranch in 2014
Aside from the Burning Man incidents, the agent investigated by the
Office of Inspector General was found to have manipulated the hiring
process so his friend got a job at the agency, even though the man was
not as qualified as other applicants and received an unfavorable
recommendation by another employer, the report states.
The investigative report was forwarded to the Interior Department’s
assistant secretary over lands and minerals for any action deemed
appropriate.
The report also noted several instances of threatened retaliation by
Love — who has since been removed from his post — to the point where one
colleague said she began locking the door to her office.
The agent also is accused of bragging that he “owned” the national
director of BLM’s Office of Law Enforcement and Security and that
nothing would happen to him.
According to the report, Love told the woman she better do damage
control after the investigation began in 2015. Once he was removed from
his position, she said he told her: “You know, if you don’t side with
me, grenades are going to go off and you’ll get hit.”
Add theft to the long list of ethical violations! Dan Love must be prosecuted and pay restitution for the damage he's done and theft committed in the governments name! Love was reported to have given away pricey rocks as gifts to his favorites who did favors to the tune of $160,000.00 - $520,000.00. The OIG MUST release the redacted portions of documents included in their report. Harry Reid is STILL pulling the strings!
Leaked Footage Bundy Ranch Stand Off April 2014.
UPDATE ~
House Committee On Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) submitted by letter a request for BLM Spokeswoman Megan Crandall to provide the Committee an UN-Redacted copy of the OIG-Office of Inspector General Report on Bureau Of Land Management Special Agent Daniel P. Love entitled "Investigative Report Of Misconduct By A Senior BLM Law Enforcement Manager". The letter was dated August 23, 2016. Krandall was given 24 hours to produce the report. Bishop also stated "the previous administration turned a blind eye to corruption and promoted a culture of mismanagement at the Department of the Interior".
A federal agent who had been scrutinized for his handling of rare evidence as well as behavior at the counterculture Burning Man festival is no longer an employee of the Bureau of Land Management, authorities said Friday.
Daniel Love, who played a command role in federal agents’ 2014 standoff with Nevada rancher and states’ rights figure Cliven Bundy, no longer works for the agency, spokeswoman Megan Crandall told the Associated Press.
"Apparently, we don't pay Megan Crandall enough to answer the public's questions", She did not answer questions about the timing or circumstances of his departure, citing federal privacy laws.
A lawyer for Love, Lisa Kleine, did not immediately return messages seeking comment. There was no answer at a publicly listed phone number for him.
Love still worked for the agency on Aug. 24, 2017 when a federal investigative report was released saying he handed out valuable stones known as moqui marbles to colleagues and a contractor “like candy,” as one witness told investigators.
The rocks are unique geological formations of iron oxide that form in sedimentary rock and the agency was holding them as evidence in an investigation into whether they were illegally collected from an unnamed national park, according to a U.S. Department of Interior report.
It also found Love told an employee to delete some emails that contained bureau information requested by then-U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz in 2016.
The Bundy cattle roundup pitted weapon-toting Bundy supporters against heavily armed BLM agents who, in the end, gave up efforts to collect Bundy cattle for nonpayment of grazing fees.
Love also led agents in a 2009 southern Utah artifact-looting investigation that marked an early skirmish in the Western U.S. conflict over control of public lands.
Department Of The Interior David L. Bernhardt issued a memo addressing misconduct in its agencies including the Bureau Of Land Management and addressed the dismissal of Agent Daniel P. Love. Bernhardt is quoted as saying “the Department must be free from any retaliation or reprisal for reports of misconduct”.
UPDATE ~
October 23, 2017
Dan Love attended a pre-trial hearing from Salt Lake City via Skype to Nevada Federal Court. He dawned his Teflon suit, retaining his singular leadership role in the Bundy Ranch operation to confiscate Cliven Bundy's grazing land and rustle his cattle beginning in 2012 and by serving a court order at gunpoint on April 12, 2014. Love, of coarse, continuously repeating his favorite "I do not recall" mantra throughout the proceedings. As par for the course, Love lost government property like laptops and PCs, notebooks with government orders and contacts and claimed Las Vegas Metro/Clark County Sheriffs Department NEVER had control of the government troops on site April 12, 2014, although comm voice recordings on that day prove otherwise. Former Agent In Charge Love complained during questioning that Federal Government "Higher Ups" were giving orders he did not agree with and admitted those above him were giving orders to employees on site in real time in which he was not privy to such as, shredding paperwork and confiscated notebooks and computers. Love was asked several times about emails and those with whom he was communicating via email, and if he'd been asked to turn them over to those within the government and just like Clinton, he claimed he didn't know anything about any of it, although Congressman Rob Bishop Utah has been asking those emails be released to Congress and the investigation into misconduct be un-redacted and also released. Looks like Dan Love took a look at what Loretta Lynch did before Congress in regards to James Comey. I've provided a video of a synopsis as to what went on in court so far.
~ Sorry my friends for the delay in getting the video up, but as the "powers that be" do desire chaos, I had to produce a last minute video on another subject. So without further a due, here is a record of the Court Hearing entitled "Teflon Dan".
