Breider v. United States

DECISION and ORDER

TERENCE T. EVANS, District Judge.

Curtis Breider had a secret room. Not as elaborate as some — no removing of a book that causes a bookcase to slide, exposing a passageway through a dingy tunnel to a real secret kind of room — but a secret room nonetheless.

Breider’s secret room was in the basement of his home on Imperial Drive in Franklin, Wisconsin. It was hidden behind a pegboard wall, the door to which was camouflaged by hanging tennis rackets, snow shovels, and tools. Breider conducted business in his secret room. At least he conducted business there until November 10,…