EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — An FBI agent says it was just a mistake when he failed to disclose payments to an Ashland couple who provided information and testimony in the long-running legal battle over an Islamic charity and its leader.
Agent David Carroll said Tuesday in federal court in Eugene he believes that disclosing the payments wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the tax-fraud trial of Pete Seda.
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