Bundy Terrorist takes deal for 2 and a half years in jail for the Malheur takeover.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/miltant-who-joined-ammon-bundys-oregon-standoff-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy/

articipant in the Oregon militia standoff at a wildlife refuge pleaded guilty to conspiring against the federal government on Thursday, making him the first of 26 jailed protesters to accept a deal with US prosecutors.

Corey Lequieu, 46, pleaded guilty to using force, intimidation and threats to impede federal officers at the Malheur national wildlife refuge, where a group of activists, some heavily armed, staged an occupation in January to protest the government’s treatment of ranchers.

Brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy, who helped lead the protests, refused to enter pleas at their arraignments, resulting in a a judge entering a “not guilty” plea on their behalf, paving the way for a high-profile trial.

“It was the best option available,” Lequieu’s girlfriend Debra Carter Pope said in an interview Thursday. “What’s important to him and to me is family. … It’s better than being in there for years and years.”

Federal prosecutors have recommended that Lequieu spend two-and-a-half years in prison and have agreed not to level any additional charges against him, according to the Oregonian. In the government’s indictment he had originally faced two additional charges related to his possession of firearms at the bird sanctuary.