United States v. Robert E. Cook

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

While employed by Wisconsin Armored Transport, Robert Cook hijacked an armored car containing some $260,000 bound for a federally-insured bank. He parked some of *250the proceeds in a Cayman Islands bank under an assumed name for use in raising a private army to wage war on abortion clinics. Cook attempted to hire Joseph Martino to serve in the campaign, which as Cook recounted into Martino’s tape recorder (he was in the pay of the FBI) would include a raid on a National Guard Armory to obtain military weapons, to be used to slaughter workers and patients at the climes.…