Gregory Rodvelt has been charged with rigging the house with explosives.

By Steve Neavling
Ticklethewire.com

An FBI special agent was shot by a booby-trapped wheelchair in a house rigged with explosive devices in southern Oregon.

“I’m hit!” the federal agent yelled as he profusely bled from his leg, the Oregonian reports, citing court records that described the house as “a scene from the movie ‘Indiana Jones.’” 

The agent and three Oregon state police bomb technicians were called to the house by a real estate lawyer who was responsible for selling the property in Williams, a town of 2,200 people.

Gregory Rodvelt, the 66-year-old man accused of placing elaborate and deadly booby traps throughout the house, has been charged in federal court with a felony count of assault on a federal officer.

The agent was injured when one of the law enforcement officials moved a wheelchair near the door, causing it fire a shotgun blast.

The driveway, mini-van and garage also were rigged with booby-traps.

Ex-Trump campaign leader Paul Manafort.

By Steve Neavling
Ticklethewire.com

The once-defiant Paul Manafort met Monday with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team less than a month after he reached a cooperation agreement with prosecutors.

As part of a plea deal reached last month, Manafort agreed to cooperate with the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Manafort and his lawyers sat down with Mueller’s prosecutors, but neither side would comment on the substance of the meeting.

Under the plea deal, Manafort must cooperate “fully, truthfully, completely, and forthrightly…in any and all matters as to which the government deems the cooperation relevant.”

Manafort is expected to be sentenced after the November midterm elections. 

Manafort served as the Trump campaign chairman in the 2016 presidential election.

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