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Back on Earth, we're hard at work reading the launch of season two of Dead Drop, what makes a spy turned federal prisoner tick. While we work on that, we wanted to share
“with you an episode of a podcast that we made a little while ago”
as part of a series we were developing called Prisoner X.
Prisoner X was, it still is, about forgotten people who are imprisoned here in America and around the world, but who shouldn't be. That shouldn't be forgotten or imprisoned. The podcast mission, tell these stories
in order to help make these prisoners X prisoners. We worked on this podcast in 2024, but after the election and the way Washington's politics swung, we decided to stick a pin in Prisoner X. Well, time has come to re-examine that pin.
That's in part because the politics in DC seemed to be shifting again. And podcasting has grown considerably and its power and influence even in this brief time. In a world where the truth itself is under constant threat,
people are seeking honest, clear, trustworthy voices. Podcasting is providing them.
“In an environment like that, a podcast like Prisoner X”
might actually help get some of the people whose stories we want to tell a legitimate shot at getting their freedom. One of the stories we worked on is about a man named Donny Reynolds Jr., a bright, talented, ambitious, young,
black entrepreneur who got swept up in the American government's fast and furious scandal. That was 25 years ago. And he's still a prisoner of that scandals corrupt aftermath today.
If anyone deserves to be an X prisoner, it's Donny Reynolds Jr. One could almost get nostalgic for the kind of corruption represented by the Fast and Furious scandal. It was truly terrible.
But perversely, it pales in comparison to the corruption happening every day right now. That doesn't reflect well on us. Originally called Project Gunrunner, Operation Fast and Furious got renamed after agents discovered
that several of the chief suspects in the case were all members of a car club. The US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the ATF ran Operation Fast and Furious from 2009 to 2011. The operation was designed, so to speak,
if we torture that word a little, to purchase and deliver firearms directly to Mexican drug cartels. The point was to track every single one of those incredibly dangerous weapons using GPS devices
secreted inside the firearms. Perhaps in some pi in the sky world, that idea pents a loud better. But here in reality, nothing one has planned. The GPS equipment, likely purchased from the lowest bitter,
was inadequate. The batteries inside the GPS lasted only a few days at best. And the tracker signals were notoriously weak. And heaven forbids somebody put the object being tracked inside a car's trunk, then the signal would just
completely vanish. This lack of technical sophistication and I'm being kind, and the other failure of the purchased GPS system has a tracker totally doomed fast and furious from the jump.
Of the 2000 firearms put into play by the FBI, only about 700 were ever recovered. While the number of straw purchasers have been arrested and indicted none, not one, of the targeted high-level cartel figures was ever prosecuted or even arrested.
It's quite a story that's still happening to Donny Reynolds Jr.
and we're truly happy to finally put Donny's story out
to the world. So without any further ado, here is Prisner X. Hi, I'm John Curriaco. Welcome to Prisner X. The podcast dedicated to helping turn prisoners
Who shouldn't be into X prisoners.
Sometimes people in power signal how afraid they are
by their actions.
“They do things that defy explanation and logic”
and human decency. That's what people in power have done to my friend Donny Reynolds Jr. In November 2007, Donny was 29. He was a successful young black entrepreneur
who owned and ran several different businesses. He bought and sold old cars. He was in the music business, live events. And he bought and sold antique weapons all very legally. In fact, Donny was one of a small group
of African Americans to have something called Class III Federal Stamps. Having and keeping those stamps meant
Donny could keep silenced, fully automatic firearms.
In other words, machine guns. In order to have and keep those stamps, Donny passed an extensive multi federal agency background check. The federal government knew about every weapon Donny owned.
“In fact, those weapons all sat in a federal database”
that allowed federal agents to browse such weapons as if they were shopping on Amazon. Stick a pin in that database. We will come back to it. Donny Reynolds kept his record spotless
in order to maintain those stamps. As Donny himself put it, they knew I was 100% legitimate. So was the rest of Donny's family. His dad, Donald Senior, worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for 40 years in security.
He served for two years in the army. His wife, Janice Donny's mother also did national service. The Reynolds were a respectable, respectful family. They were the kind of Americans we want all our kids to be. And yet, on June 19th, 2008, federal agents
led by IRS agent Brian Grove and Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracey Plow, along with local Knoxville Tennessee Police Department, swarmed Donny's home, looking for drugs.
“They were sure they'd find a mother load.”
They invaded Donny's parents' house, too, and turned it upside down. Grove and Plowl didn't find any of the evidence they insisted they'd find. But that wasn't the beginning of it.
As you'll soon hear, not only is it unacceptable that Donny Reynolds Jr sits in prison. The prison he's in is even more unacceptable. For the past decade, Donny Reynolds Jr has been held at the Communications Management Unit
or CMU in Terra Hope, Indiana. Created by the federal bureau of prisons in 2006 as part of the George W. Bush administration's counterterrorism framework and shrouded in secrecy, these prisons are meant to isolate and segregate certain prisoners
from the rest of the federal prison population. These are supposed to be the hardest of the hardcore. I think El Chapo, John Gotti. Currently, there are two CMUs for men and another for women. Donny is being held at the CMU in Terra Hope.
Strangely, that's also the location of the federal prison system's death row. Donny being at that CMU makes telling a story especially tricky, but then, that is the point. Inbound Communication is severely restricted,
so is outbound communication. Prisoners get two 15-minute phone calls a week, unless the people running Terra Hope change their minds. Mail moves at a pony express-like pace, explanations for why or for pretty much anything else or a few in far between.
That we can tell Donny's story at all is a testament to the fearlessness and tenacity of several individuals who defiantly resisted these attempts to crush Donny and themselves. For four years, Marty Godisfeld was also an inmate
at the CMU in Terra Hope alongside Donny. Now free, but not entirely free to speak. Marty became a kind of legal eagle while at Terra Hope. One of the people whose causes Marty embraced was Donny Juniors.
As for Marty, and what he was doing at Terra Hope. In 2014, Marty, who associated himself with the decentralized hack-to-list group anonymous, shut down the Boston Children's Hospital's website and its ability to fundraise.
Marty was protesting the care of a patient named Christine Pelleteer, a teenager at the center of a high-profile custody battle. Marty's actions cost the hospital tens of thousands of dollars and disrupted operations for days, but no patients were directly impacted by the shutdown.
I've been in computer technology since very young age. My dad was a Apollo program rocket scientist, computer programmer, taught me to code on his knee when I was three years old.
I wrote my first program when I was five.
My first program when I was 12 was a full-time engineer
to tech company at 18, working on network infrastructure and data security kind of topics.
“So I was intimately familiar with that work in data security”
from the other side from the defensive side. Before the attack, I was a data security coordinator at a Massachusetts biotech county. And I did business continuity disaster recovery planning for health and other organizations
wrapped through the Fortune 500. So I knew what would and would not be a risk to human life. And my jury refused to convict me. The government charged me with impacting or potentially impacting the medical diagnosis treatment or care of one or more individuals.
And the jury ultimately refused to convict me on that account.
So they got me for just financial damage. But that was the kind of the narrative the government used as a cudgel. This guy risked children's lives. But at the end of the day, they failed to prove that to a jury in a courtroom where they had every advantage where
I wasn't even allowed to argue that I acted in the defense of another person's life. These two prosecutors, David Diario and Seth Costo,
“were unable to prove the ethical core of their case to a jury.”
When the health care situation came to my attention, and it was obvious to me that this girl was going to die if something was not done. I figured out, rather, running the rapids, then deal with my conscience if something happened to her.
And I knew that I could have done something and chose not to do so.
Done he Reynolds and his circumstances.
Likewise, became a focus of Marty's conscience. Once they met and became appointed a terror hote. Once again, Marty saw an abusive power and chose to do something about it. I had told, I did four companies. He was involved with trucking.
He was involved with some high-end cars. So it looks like, to me, that through the high-end car stuff, some of the original informants on fast and furious, came to learn about money and came to learn about his firearms permits.
And this was around the time when they were looking for straw band purchasers for fast and furious. Operation fast and furious was originally known as the ATF gun-walking scandal. Back in 2006, the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms
was under pressure because of its focus on arresting low-level dealers and sellers of unregistered or unlicensed guns. Many of those guns ended up in the hands of members of Mexican drug cartels. So the pressure was on ATF to overlook those initial gun sales. And then track the movement of the guns up the chain of command
to see where they ended up. That's what the bureau did. They traced the guns movement, but then didn't really do anything about it. Here are some of the details.
Beginning in 2006, ATF agents in Arizona began allowing licensed gun dealers to make technically illegal sales to straw buyers hoping to track the sales back to the cartels and then make high-level arrests. By 2011, after the sale of 2000 guns, not a single cartel member
had been arrested. And only 710 of the guns had been recovered. The rest were just missing. To make matters worse, several of the guns were found near the scene of the murder of a border patrol agent
and Congress was calling for heads to roll. Without any ability to get to the cartels, ATF and the justice department began focusing on the little guys again. By then, it was all about the justice department saving face. Dozens of arrests came out of fasting furious largely
over the violation of three different gun sales laws and most of the sentences for those offenses were in the range of three years probation up to eight years in prison. By all accounts, ATF agents hated the operation from the start. Their job, after all, is to indredict weapons,
not to let them just walk into the arms of the cartels. But that was the order from the justice department. In the end, when everything fell apart, when Congress demanded answers, the department began looking for skate goats. And if that skate goat could take the fall for the murder
of a federal agent, so much the better. And that is how Donny Reynolds Jr. showed up on the department of justices fast and furious radar. Well, I think it's the war on Toronto.
This is what made these cartels powerful.
“I think it was two customs and border protection”
in one border patrol agent and untold numbers of civilians south of the border. And the Mexican government's still looking for answers in terms of, like, how this all kind of happened. The Obama administration asserted executive privilege
to quash a legislative subpoena from the House of the House was investigating the operation. Biden was potentially involved because he was there at the time in the Obama administration. You know, Donny, if he gets his Brady material
is discovery material, potentially there are some very interesting answers.
In that material that Donny's defense was owed before trial
to talk about the credibility of some of these witnesses
“who testified were produced to trial the testify against him.”
Were some of the same names and same surnames that we see mentioned. And some of the very limited-fast and furious stuff that has since surfaced. Now, it looks like Donny was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. They needed people who would look authentic to the cartels
as the people to pass off these weapons. And now you have Donny. He's got a deal with universal records, right? He's an antique firearms collector. He's in the high end cars, right?
He's a great guy potentially for the justice department to try to put undercover to the cartels as the source for these weapons. He's got a great story, a great front that they would not have been able to build otherwise with a different person. But Donny refuses to play ball.
And so they bury Donny. Now, just a reminder, what Marty is saying is conjecture. We don't have notarized receipts that say this is what the Justice Department did. We just have the end result. An innocent man, a trial where Donny Rhodes wasn't given the opportunity
to defend himself adequately and a sentence that defies explanation. Unless you factor in corruption. Let's dig into each of those end results and point to the corruption. First, Donny's innocence. Prior to this moment in his life had Donny Reynolds ever been in trouble,
or even been in trouble with his parents. Donny's dad, Donald Senior, is unequivocal.
Wow, he never gives us any problems that it's good or anything.
In fact, he was an athlete and he did everything he could do to run the business.
“Marty got us felt, and I think they assumed, you know, black,”
chepop, mogul, with guns, they were going to find drugs, which they didn't. Funny thing, as these law enforcement officers tossed the Reynolds houses and violated their privacy and their rights, they did so without a search warrant. Oh, they had a search warrant with them. It just wasn't filled out or signed by a judge or legitimate, therefore.
Donald Reynolds Senior. The search warrant were pleasant signed by a judge, and later the search warrant was signed by a judge. They made the search warrant up at my kitchen table. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know much about that, but I would think that if you gave me a search warrant, at my house, that search warrant would be the same as if I went pick it up at the courthouse.
Day up to later, I went to get a copy of the search warrant. My search warrant was different from the search warrant they had on file. There I mentioned earlier, I was in the military, and I grew up, told to respect, but the authorities, the government, everything, and one of the things I did was went to the military. I was really surprised that the government would use such tactics.
This ground, and I'm getting more surprised, as it has time went along. Ingrid and Indie present, Jobs, by whom you don't have a lot of words, "Hey, stay in here, how do you feel about the circumstances?" Super-neudigated, they knew they wouldn't be able to stand up.
“"How do I write down your thoughts? That's what you have to respect."”
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Because Donnie Jr. had kids, his parents had bottom a large heavy gunsafe. The law enforcement officers made Donnie Jr. open it for them. Donnie Jr.'s mother, Janice Reynolds. And when they found the gun, he had an open and safe and they looked and they opened it up. All those out certificates there. And they went and lay it into the garage, where you kept the safe because to be upstairs kind of hard. It was really heavy. They put it on a
ground, went through it. And it took whatever they went out of it. And they loved what he had.
He had some he had seen it. I gave special special color like gold to it and everything. And they fascinated all those older guns. You know, he's just like most American whites do. And they moved more than we do. And but he did it by law. He took the class and got it done.
“And he said he got the stamps and stuff. He really proud of himself. Because it's, I think it was”
great for him to do on stuff. He would try to do and show, show people that everybody can kneel within the law to make a difference. And we were taught what he got.
At trial, Donnie Jr.'s case was further complicated by a trial unusually biased
in favor of law enforcement. Judge Dennis Inman had worked for the Knoxville Police Department. Marty got us filled. Donnie's judge used to represent the Knoxville Police Department. The same police department that was part of the federal task force. Yes, prior to that was a state level attorney who represented Knoxville Police Department. When they would get sued for police brutality. So he's not with the cover of the
“House of the Police Department. When the police department did bad things. Judge Dennis Inman refused”
to let Donnie tell the jury anything about his legitimate businesses like the live music business to explain why he had large amounts of cash on him. Instead, the prosecution leaned on other witnesses, drug dealers and gun runners who'd also been caught up in the fast and furious investigation. Most of them were actual criminals who understood that when law enforcement wants to bury an innocent person like Donnie Reynolds with your help, you help. Because putting Donnie Reynolds
on the hook got them off the hook. The truth has no place in it. Donnie's case wasn't helped by his legal representation either. For a while, Donnie Sr. paid for the best lawyers he could afford. But they too seemed to think Donnie was guilty. I paid the lawyers to do a job for me. I paid lawyers. And they told me at the time that they were experienced in the type of case that my son was doing. But yet when the trial came, it was obvious to me that they didn't
hadn't done the homework and that they were operating with the government. I kept pushing the search warrant and they did not want to go that route. So that to me was saying, okay, if you guys don't want to push the search warrant, you're not trying to help solve this case. Harrison and Swartz was in it. Why do you think it is that these lawyers, not just the ones that you've paid for, but string of lawyers have been either unwilling or unable
to provide Donnie with documents from his trial, including transcripts. Now, these are these are documents that should be freely available to the public. You go to the courthouse, you pay 25 cents a page or whatever it is and they should give you copies of these documents. For some reason these documents seem to either not exist or they are not available to Donnie to try to let's say launch an appeal. Why is it that the people who are supposed to be on his
side have been so unwilling to help? That's been a mystery to us also that because we've been reaching out to people every since this began and the story remains the same that he is or whatever reason not able to do that, I don't know. We hadn't told us when this thing started,
It just kept getting bigger and deeper and deeper and deeper and as it has pr...
we are where we are right now. It did get bigger and bigger and bigger and in part it became bigger
because Donnie would not flip. There was nobody to flip on, right? We all believe he's innocent. They kept saying, well, we'll give you a deal. If you flip, he didn't flip and then the prosecution made a recommendation of something like 15 years or 20 years and then he gets essentially a life sentence and in the federal system there is no parole or probation. You get 15% off for good behavior but 15% off 75 years. Big deal. He'll be 100 years old. How did that happen and why do you think that
happened? One thing happened in the court. She mentioned the court. We didn't get to hear a lot. We weren't right up front with the testimony because they said she had sent something to Donnie or
“something and we had to go outside of the court room, done part of the trial and I think that was a”
by design. We couldn't hear and see the gestures and everything that was going on and that's one thing that I can't answer your question to point. Life plus 75 years. Why on earth did Donnie Reynolds with no previous offenses of any kind? No record whatsoever. Get such a staggeringly harsh
prison sentence. Life plus 75 years. Yeah, longer than El Chapo. Marty God has failed. But they never
found any drugs on Donnie and there's no accusation that he ever hurt anybody. He's more dangerous to them than El Chapo in some ways because she stands to implicate them. If his stuff comes out people in power are going out of power potentially going to prison, so they view Donnie as a bigger threat than El Chapo. And they're just desperately hoping that the whole thing doesn't
“bust open and all of the scandal come out because like Donnie's case is not the only case there”
that stands to implicate some very high of people. When the police came at first they attended the kicked the door in but whoever was attempting to kick the door I guess they didn't know what they were doing. And then get the door to open up so that when they proceeded to enter the home they had my father lay on the ground and the agent proceeded to put his nine millimeter handguns to the back of my head. That's the voice of Adonis Reynolds, Donnie Jr. son. He might be this terrible story's most
heartbreaking victim. Consider the repercussions of being eight. Eight. And having federal law enforcement point a gun at your head while barking at you to get on the floor. When you're not the son of a drug lord, not living the life of an actual crime family, it can be pretty shocking when the authorities
“crash into your house looking for drugs that aren't there. Had his father's trial been fair,”
it still would probably have impacted young Adonis. They pointed a gun at his head, but nothing about the trial or anything surrounding it or anything since the night they rated his father's and his grandparents' houses has been even remotely fair, not to Donnie Reynolds or his parents or his children. Adonis went from a future filled with athletic promise to a future filled with
uncertainty instead. Before they came to the house, my life was amazing. I've always been in
the sports. Like I ran a-a-u track. I was in multiple different tournaments. I was doing things with football tracks, soccer, growing up. So my dad never missed to beat when it came to that. Any type of organized sports or any type of school activities or anything that he could be present for he was there for. I have four championship. I have four state ranks. I have this judge right here from the SCF championship in my XFL trials with the Orlando Guardians. I've done an excellent athletic
career issues. Different circumstances prevented me from excelling to where I wanted to be. With everything that happened with my father's situation, it pulled a lot of my college scholarship offers off of the table. My dad and my grandmother's would really kept their family close in it together. On a daily basis, I know that my family is struggling mentally with having to deal with this. But I just feel like sometimes I have to try to carry the weight on my back to absorb a lot of the stress it was going on.
It's hard for me to find meaningful employment to keep myself afloat and McDonald's won even higherly. It's the way it's just like I work specific jobs that I can work as long as I can
Do the term in each.
attracting the undue attention of local law enforcement because of who he was. I've been beat on
“by the police on multiple different occasions in incarceration from getting pulled over traffic stops.”
I've been pulled over by undercover police officers in Knox through this one of the main reasons why I live. Because I value my safety and I value my life a lot and I'm going to allow myself to be unalive by police officer in Knox County. Unalive by a police officer. That's a chilling way to put it. Don't you think? Don't you and I are in pretty regular touch. He'll send me an email and sometimes it'll take a day. He gets me. Sometimes it'll take 10 days to get to me. He'll send me
mail. Sometimes it arrives. Sometimes it just disappears into the air as though he never sent it.
Even though it has a tracking number on it. Sometimes it's emails. We don't get them and his phone calls are just must a week. Sometimes twice a week. I don't know what they have privileges of whatever anyway, but it's really restricted on his phone conversations and stuff. Ingrid and in deed present. Jobs, by which you don't have any email,
“you have to pay attention to the fact that he's a criminal. And I see that it's a criminal.”
And now the drop. That's the job for premiums. With real profits, that's not passed. For trawing greed, forsoothing, and funded by the police, with premiums. [Music] Do you get the feeling that apartment of justice and various people in the federal government want Donnie, his family, and his situation to be hopeless? Well, we don't believe in hopeless here at
Prisoner X. I know from experience that hope and struggle go hand in hand. So what can we do to help Donnie Reynolds, other than tell his story? Well, if you can write an email, short and sweet, it's okay. Then you can help make Donnie Reynolds an ex-prisoner.
“Marty got us filled. I think it would be great if a lot of people just wrote to him,”
and started opening up communications with them so that the prisons or the CMU would know that his situation with his males being watched. And if they clamp down people are going to notice, for the size of the case that he has for what's at stake, he's really obscure, he's not really well known. And that's kind of their number one goal, right? As long as he is the obscure individual, they can keep doing this to him, and they can keep this evidence
from ever being presented in court. So I think one thing would be just to have a thousand people write him a letter, and to have the CMU have to deal with that, and know that there are people on the
outside watching. But even like the Cartel people are like we never knew him, we never met him,
like his trial transcripts are out of this world. And if you've not read the trial transcripts, really, I commend them to your reading. Because that's where they mentioned some of the Cartel people, they mentioned El Chapo, they mentioned the cop killer guns, they mentioned, you know, all of this, but then these these Cartel people, they're like, no, we never met him. And these Cartel people, like, one of them ordered a hit on American soil,
and this person who ordered this this murder, contract for higher murder on American soil, is coming and testify against Donnie, free on bail, and gets sentenced to a lot less than Donnie did, even though he admitted to him, it's a higher drug weight than they even charged Donnie for. And Donnie gets life plus 75. They've got to keep him quiet. On our website, you'll find a list of email addresses. You know what they say about sunshine and
bullshit? In the matter of Donnie Reynolds Jr., they didn't just criminalize a man. They criminalized his entire family. The people behind Fast and Furious are all walking around free today,
as they always have. They've got their lives and their homes and their relationships and their wealth.
They still have their futures. The same isn't true of the Reynolds family. 25 years after the fact, and the Reynolds family remains as much a prisoner of this madness as does Donnie. It's just a stone cold fact, what the DOJ did to Donnie Reynolds was criminal, what they did to his family. That was even worse. Like I said at the beginning,
Sometimes people in power signal how afraid they are of by their actions.
responsible for the disastrous Fast and Furious scandal have blood on their hands.
“If innocence could bleed, those people would have Donnie Reynolds' innocence on their hands, too.”
We hope you found Donnie Reynolds Jr. story compelling. We have an update.
Donnie was transferred from the maximum security CMU in Terra-Hote, Indiana to the medium security
CMU which is now located in Comberland, Maryland. While that may sound like good news, it actually isn't. As Donnie senior told me, when he updated me about six months ago, the CMU itself was transferred. It's still a CMU and the level of prison security is, well, it's pretty much irrelevant. Donnie still has no access to the outside world.
“And the outside world has limited access to him. But that's why we have got to go at it.”
Here's Donnie's new address and it'll be in the show notes, too. Donald Ray Reynolds Jr. Prisoner number 32349-074-FCI Comberland 14601 Burbridge Road, southeast Comberland, Maryland 21502. On the Bureau of Prison's website, which I'm looking at
“right now, it says name Donald Ray Reynolds, register number 32349-074, age 47, race, black,”
sex, male, release date, and in all capital letters, it says life. We need to fix that. We need to make Donnie Reynolds Jr. an ex-prisoner. Like I said, prisoner ex is one of several podcasts we're working on. Please let us know in the comments what you thought about it. As if you weren't going to anyway, in our next episode, fingers crossed, we'll begin the next part of my saga. How am I training as a spy prepped me
for life in prison? You're about to meet some truly amazing characters, and we think you'll enjoy them.
Until next time, I'm John Kiryaku. Dead drop is written by John Kiryaku and Alan Katz, cost-art and touchstone productions produces the podcast, and John Kiryaku, Alan Katz, and Nick McKenak are its executive producers.
