people crazy. i do have a fair amount of litigation experience. i have not had courtroom experience. it s a little unclear as to why schieffer decided to seize sue or become interested in it at all. whether it began with morris williams or complaints from the tribe. ultimately the decision was kevin schieffer s to decide that this was something they wanted to do. also shocking from a scientific standpoint that anybody would behave so recklessly with the greatest paleontological find of all time. if the dinosaur seizure wasn t a publicity stunt i don t know what is. there could be a gang in this town with a pairhouse holding a ton of cocaine and human bodies hanging from the rafters and the federal government would not have sent 35 agents and the national guard. sue wasn t a part of what we were looking at or what was being looked at as far as
started this business called black hills minerals as this earth science supply house. eventually my younger brother neal, who was also a student at the school of mines, and bob farrar, one of his classmates, started working with us as well. with the three of us all going to the school of mines, we were problems there, because all of us chose not to go into industry. the first year was terrible, the second year was not so good but it was sort of turning into a business. as we kept going, we kept collecting more and more fossils and had the idea of it probably would work to sell these as display specimens. in 1978, we were going pretty strong. we were selling mostly fossils. we were going out and doing geological exploration. so by 1979, we created this new entity called black hills institute of geological research, incorporated, in the center of the black hills. we got sue back to hill city. we moved the big blocks into the warehouse, actually built a room around where we had put
it wasn t tribal land. it wasn t federal land. it was a really sue came out from an absolute legal netherworld. netherworld. thank you for being my hero and my dad. military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa auto insurance could be one of them. if you re a current or former military member or their family, get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life.
evidence around that fossil to see whether there s something there that s wrong, chargeable, what more needs to be investigated. fbi agents arrived here in hill city. they presented the black hills institute with a court order. that order demanded the release of more information. but the people at the institute have another name for it. they call it harassment. it should not be allowed to happen. this is the united states of america. so far, no criminal charges have been filed in the case. members of the institute say they re innocent and are hoping that a new administration will put an end to their legal fight over sue. institute officials thought their problems were over when kevin schieffer was replaced as u.s. attorney, but apparently they continue to be the target of the federal government. we have a federal search warrant issued by the u.s. district court and we re serving a search warrant. the enormous amount of money the government is spending to put one person or o
when the buzzer went off. we were met by two fbi agents with a search warrant to take sue and all records belonging to sue. they showed up expecting to seal off the building and keep anybody from going on. just wait here. we have to get pete. they sent me to get pete, and i was running. i lived in a trailer house behind the institute. the fbi s here. they re all over the place. they ve got yellow police tape around the main building. do not cross. police line. do not cross. it was hard to know what was really happening at that point. i go down to the office, and there s two fbi agents sitting there. you ve stolen this from federal land, and we re coming here to seize this. i got a phone call from peter larson, because it wasn t just the fbi. it was personnel from south dakota tech. it was personnel from other