New update on Daniel McGowan

From:    "Family + Friends of Daniel McG" <friendsofdanielmcg@yahoo.com>
Date:    Thu, July 31, 2008

Hi friends,

A lot has been going on over the last few weeks with Daniel and this is
our attempt to catch everyone up. Daniel was in the process of
transferring to another federal facility when he was subpoenaed to a grand
jury in Madison, Wisconsin. He went from Columbia County Jail in Portage,
Wisconsin to Dane County Jail in Madison and then later back to Portage,
all during the period of June 11 - July 24.

Daniel appeared before the grand jury in Madison twice during this time.
He did  not in fact "resist" the grand jury since he did answer questions
about himself - his name, his charges, if statements about himself and his
actions in  his plea agreement were correct - but when the government
asked that he confirm the names of others they were intending to indict in
connection with the actions, Daniel did not respond to this. He cited his
own plea agreement with the government from his case and said that having
to discuss other's actions was in violation of this agreement.  He was
later brought back into court and was given a chance  to purge (answer the
question he did not answer) and again refused to do so. The court charged
him with civil contempt because of this. He was held in contempt for
around a week, which for him meant that that time did not count towards
his existing sentence.

Last Monday, July 21st, the government filed a motion to lift the civil
contempt. The US Attorney (gov't) moved to dismiss the contempt order
after indicting two to three others and after the statute of limitation
had expired with respect to crimes committed in Wisconsin.  At that point,
Daniel could be of no help to the government even had he been inclined to
do so, which he was not. The judge signed signed the order releasing
Daniel from contempt on July 23rd.

We have learned that Daniel has been designated to a special unit in the
federal prison in Marion, Illinois. He is currently still at FCI Terre
Haute in Indiana but we are under the assumption he will be moving within
the next week or so. We will provide more information on this as it comes.

Please continue to write to Daniel along his route. You can reach him now at:

Daniel McGowan #63794-053
FCI Terre Haute
Federal Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 33
Terre Haute, IN 47808

Thanks so much,
Family & Friends of Daniel McGowan


      -------------------------------------------------------------------
Support Daniel McGowan: http://www.supportdaniel.org
Daniel on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/danielmcgowan

Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan
PO Box 106, NY, NY 10156
friendsofdanielmcg@yahoo.com

Donations:checks or money orders can be made out to "Lisa McGowan" and
sent to the above PO Box or online at http://tinyurl.com/8blde