A Milwaukee jury convicted a Wisconsin man of forging letters that threatened President Trump’s life to get a key witness in a case against the man deported. Before investigators uncovered the ruse, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem publicly praised ICE for arresting the supposed letter-writer.
At trial, investigators proved the letters were fake, identifying them as part of Demetric Scott’s wider effort to derail his own criminal case. Prosecutors alleged that the 52-year-old Scott sent forged, handwritten letters under the name of Ramon Morales Reyes. Morales Reyes is a Mexican immigrant. who, at that time, prosecutors expected to testify against Scott in a Milwaukee robbery case.
