Leroy N. Soetoro
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When Zach Schoffstall, a former supervisory senior resident agent in the
FBIs Salt Lake City Division, heard his bosses wanted to focus more on
domestic terrorism and hate crimes, he tried to work with them. He
brought the U.S. Attorney in Idaho two hate crime cases.
The U.S. Attorneys Office (USAO) declined to prosecute both. Instead,
Schoffstall told the Daily Caller, the Attorney for the District of Idaho,
Josh Hurwit, said he was more interested in appeasing the Biden
administration by hosting seminars to talk about hate crimes. Later on,
when the FBI pushed Schoffstall to execute a search warrant against a
domestic extremist group protesting LGBTQ activists, he refused. It
eventually cost him his career.
I had been told I brought embarrassment to the bureau because of all the
pressure that DOJ placed on the bureau to get that warrant, Schoffstall
told the Caller.
In June of 2022, 31 Patriot Front members were arrested and charged with
conspiracy to riot after they were found carrying poles and shields in a
U-Haul at a Coeur dAlene Pride in the Park event. Schoffstall said the
group is known to protest BLM, LGBTQ, and anti-Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) events.
Pride in the Park generated outrage after it was revealed that Idahos
Satanic Temple chapter and sexualized drag queens would be present at the
family-friendly event. Christian pastors, however, were removed for
allegedly trespassing. The Kootenai County Sheriffs Office said that
month that it was investigating whether a performers genitals were
potentially exposed, according to the Idaho Dispatch.
At least one member of Antifa was also arrested at the pride event, Andy
Ngo reported.
It would appear from our investigation, [Patriot Font] went to great
lengths to prevent anyone from committing an act of violence, Schoffstall
said. They would suspend people for talking about it. Theyd kick them
out.
While he said the groups message was pretty stupid, Schoffstall
emphasized that he never saw any calls for violence.
Still, the USAO and executive management at the FBI were determined to
execute a federal search warrant, even pushing Schoffstall to give the
warrant to an agent with no knowledge of the investigation.
After he refused, Schoffstall was removed and transferred to West Virginia
to work in the Criminal Justice Information Services Division. Despite
receiving feedback that he performed at an exemplary level, Schoffstall
was dismissed in 2024 because of how he handled the 2022 investigation, he
said.
The Patriot Front case was transferred to an LGBTQ FBI supervisor in
Boise, according to Schoffstall. Additionally, Coeur dAlenes USAO branch
manager had a child who was transitioning at the time of the Boise Pride
event, Schoffstall said. He speculated there was a combination of
personal and political agendas.
You had obviously an [assistant U.S. attorney] with a personal interest
in the LGBTQ movement, Schoffstall said. And you had a brand new U.S.
attorney who stated he was looking to appease DOJ.
Josh Hurwit was looking to appear to be in the good graces of [DOJ],
Schoffstall told the Caller. Hurwit was nominated by President Joe Biden,
and FEC filings show he donated to Biden and Harriss presidential
campaigns. He is also a supporter of the LGBTQ movement and attended a
Boise Pride event in December 2022.
The Biden administration made advancing racial equity, a euphemism for
discarding merit to judge individuals based on their race, a key tenet of
its executive brand policy. At the DOJ, this manifested in the form of an
annual equity action plan.
Hurwit reportedly told Schoffstall that one of his priorities as attorney
for the District of Idaho would be combating hate crimes.
Schoffstall told the Caller he notified the USAO of two potential hate
crimes. In one instance, a white male allegedly assaulted a black man with
a knife and used racial slurs. In another, a Hispanic man was allegedly
punched by a white man using racial slurs.
The USAO declined to prosecute both cases. Schoffstall later informed
Hurwit about the potential hate crimes.
He said, Oh, I wasnt aware, but I was more thinking we would do some
conferences and so forth on the hate crime issues,' Schoffstall stated.
I think my takeaway from that was Mr. Hurwit, as the new U.S. Attorney,
was very much just looking to appear to be in the good graces of main
justice and parrot whatever they wanted him to parrot, but they werent
necessarily looking for basic criminal prosecutions.
The Caller reached out to Hurwits office for comment on the above but has
not yet heard back.
Hurwit did establish a COVID-19 Fraud Task Force in 2023 to prosecute
individuals who exploited various pandemic-related programs for fraud
purposes. (RELATED: Kamalas Last-Ditch Pitch To Black Men Is A Dream For
Scammers, Fraudsters)
The DOJ launched a United Against Hate (UAH) initiative under Biden in
2022 to combat hate crimes. The program partnered nonprofits and USAOs
with the DOJ and FBI to combat hate.
UAH shares resources to combat hate and encourages discussion between
representatives from law enforcement, community organizations, and members
of the public, a DOJ press release stated.
Rather than prosecute hate crimes, Hurwit cosponsored a UAH event with
Idaho State University in 2023 which included presentations about how to
report them. He also participated in an event with the DOJ, FBI, and the
Idaho nonprofit Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, in 2022.
The City of Coeur dAlene passed an anti-hate crime ordinance in July
2024. One of the citys councilmembers, Christie Wood, is on the board of
the Task Force involved in the DOJs UAH program.
The new U.S. attorney, you know, told me that he was wanting to parrot
the priorities of DOJ main, and that included having conferences and at
least making the appearance they were trying to do something about hate
crimes, Schoffstall said.
Hurwit spoke at the Task Forces banquet in 2024. The group is based in
Coeur dAlene and worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to
bankrupt the white-nationalist Aryan Nations, according to The Spokesman
Review. Idahos USAO also co-sponsored a 2023 UAH event at Boise State
University with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of the Pacific Northwest.
I think this goes back to the Patriot Front issue, Schoffstall told the
Caller.
They quickly realized they couldnt charge these guys with a federal
crime, right? But I think the facts would indicate that they wanted to
make the appearance that they were leaning heavily into this and they were
going to do something about it.
In the end, the Patriot Front case amounted to almost nothing the
groups leader walked free, and a handful were convicted of conspiracy to
riot, bringing jail sentences of a few days and modest fines. The others
pled guilty and received even softer punishments.
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