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FBI agent W. Joseph Astarita and several colleagues on the bureau's elite Hostage Rescue Team are under investigation for alleged "lack of candor'' in their statements after the shooting of refuge occupation leader Robert "LaVoy" Finicum in January 2016, according to a new court filing.

The federal agents are the subject of an ongoing administrative investigation and review by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General, federal prosecutors noted in the document filed in court Wednesday.

Astarita was among FBI agents and state police officers trying to arrest leaders of the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge as they drove off the bird sanctuary to a community meeting 100 miles away along remote U.S. 395.

Prosecutors had alleged that Astarita covered up that he fired at Finicum's truck after it swerved into a snowbank at a police roadblock off the highway on Jan. 26, 2016. They also alleged Astarita and his colleagues on the Hostage Rescue Team picked up and removed shell casings from the shooting scene.

One shot hit the roof of the truck's cab and shattered the rear driver's side window and the other missed entirely -- both distinctly audible on the video captured by rear seat passenger Shawna Cox.

In August, a jury acquitted Astarita of all federal charges.

While Justice Department officials had confirmed in the past that the agents would be investigated for alleged misconduct, the legal brief that prosecutors wrote mentions for the first time that the inquiry regards their alleged "lack of candor.''

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https://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-stando...nvestigate.html

I hope a new investigation of these events along Hwy 395 will expose the truth of what happened that day. I have always suspected LaVoy was assassinated in the same manner as was Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge. There is even some evidence this same group of legal thugs, the Hostage Rescue Team of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was present at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco and had some secretive role.

We will see.