ATF fictional sting operations

Between 2011 and 2014, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), part of the United States Department of Justice, engaged in a campaign of sting operations in which individuals were enticed to participate in gun and drug related crimes against fictitious stash house targets for which they were then arrested and convicted. The made-up crimes were in fact entirely the creation of ATF, and as described by two federal judges, carried severe sentences (typically 15 years), but were likely to cause grave unfairness and miscarriage of justice.

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