At the VERY end of 2025, Montana’s Attorney General, Austin Knudsen, had his future political career saved from destruction when a case against him–referred to by the Montana Free Press as a “misconduct saga”–was officially “laid to rest”:
Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s 41-count professional misconduct saga was laid to rest Dec. 31 in the final work hours of the final day of the fifth year since anonymous complaints triggered a high-stakes attorney discipline proceeding by accusing him of defying a Montana Supreme Court order and disparaging the system of justice.
The New Year’s Eve ruling was greeted by a flood of prepared statements from Republican elected officials and Knudsen himself, some issued minutes before the 149-page state supreme court order on the matter was posted online for public consumption.
A judicial panel technically dismissed the case but wrote that some of the misconduct charges were justified — in effect declining to deliver punishment beyond stern words.
Yes, despite the fact a judicial panel CONFIRMED that “some of the misconduct charges were justified”, Austin Knudsen faced no actual consequences for that misconduct.
I wonder why?
If Austin Knudsen had something that gave him insurance, like dirt on a Supreme Court Justice, who could that be? And what kind of dirt?
At the beginning of 2025 (Austin’s tough legal year), Supreme Court Justice, Mike McGrath, retired. For a little context on McGrath’s career trajectory, here’s some perspective on his tenure as a prosecutor:
Chief Justice McGrath was raised in Butte. A veteran, he served in the United States Air Force from 1970-1972. He earned a BA in business administration from the University of Montana in 1970 and graduated from Gonzaga University School of Law in 1975.
Following graduation from law school, Chief Justice McGrath worked as a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellow in Reno, Nevada, providing legal services to low-income clients. He returned to Montana as a Montana Assistant Attorney General from 1977 to 1982.
In 1982 he was elected as Lewis and Clark County Attorney in Helena and in his 18 years as the lead prosecutor for the County, he emphasized the prosecution of child abuse and neglect, sexual assault and DUI cases. He served as president of the Montana County Attorneys Association in 1992-1993.
The rumor I’ve heard is that McGrath was being investigated for misconduct with a minor and that Jason Ellsworth had this dirt, which he gave to Austin Knudsen, who then turned on Ellsworth and helped pull strings to get him investigated for corruption, and we all know how that went.
While this is just a conspiracy theory, it’s one of the angles I’m looking at in order to better understand the obvious lawfare against Sam Redfern, who I wrote an emergency post about yesterday after speaking with a member of his family and someone who saw the “aggressive” arrest go down.
The official story, as told by Griffin Smith at the Missoulian, is that the February raid by the ATF and the “Fed Hold” arrest on Sunday by the FBI and the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office is ONLY about an alleged violation of a protection order.
Does anyone really believe this?
Violations of protection orders are NOT usually investigated by the ATF and the FBI, so obviously there is more to the story than what we are being told, like how does this “X” account always get such quality inside info?
Who you working for, “Montana Muckraker”?
If the origin of Sam Redfern’s arrest on Sunday was a protection order, I wanted to know who opposing counsel could have been back then, so I scanned Redfern’s Facebook account for clues and found this:
Seeing that were four ladies of “justice” and one aspiring future Governor comprising this list, I wondered if, perhaps, the lady lawyers were as politically active as Sam was.
The answer? Yep!
A bill that would have Montana courts take into consideration adultery or physical abuse when considering division of property during a couple’s divorce could harm abuse victims and cost them even more in attorney’s fees, a prosecutor and family law attorneys said Friday.
“This bill is giving abusive partners a legal tool to use allegations of adultery in a public forum against their spouse to harass, humiliate and intimidate them into staying in a violent relationship,” said Emily Lucas, a Missoula family law attorney who testified in opposition to House Bill 237.
Emily Lucas is doing us ALL a favor by helping me make the case that there’s an INDUSTRY involved in “supporting” “victims”, which means that, yes, there are PROFESSIONAL VICTIMS, and they are so good at leveraging their victim status for personal, financial, and political gain that the good ones ensure you cannot even write their names without risking felony charges.
To unpack what Emily Lucas is saying in the above quote, if women are found to be lying, cheating home-wreckers, then it’s important for the Victim Industry to insulate them, legally, from financially experiencing the consequences.
Men, I hate to say this, but we are at war with this industry, whether you want to be or not.
While I prepare to face a felony criminal charge tomorrow, possibly in Landee Holloway’s court–the female judge who is up for reelection and who should be, at the very least, a little embarrassed I’m asking Epstein questions about her time with Missoula Probation and Parole–I figure now is as good a time as any to take MY investigation into the case of my missing Lego sign to the next level by releasing a still image from video footage acquired in pursuit of defending myself.
If you were at the Great Burn Brewery on June 19th from 5-6pm, I would love to speak with you, so contact me at willskink at yahoo dot com.
While Officer Castro is reportedly reserving 10am to call my PD to see the video evidence, which is of course the WORST time to call a Public Defender, my sense of time is getting more and more urgent, which doesn’t help my PTSD, currently untreated with counseling because I made Daddy angry and he uses money to control people, like our system does.
Because Sam Redfern’s case intersects with mine in ways I can’t disclose, I will be following what happens closely, and writing carefully, about only the things I feel necessary to disclose at this point, and for my own safety.
People who haven’t experienced lawfare have no idea the toll it takes as it grinds on for MONTHS and YEARS, and that’s by design. If people like me, who attended the University to be a writer, then created an LLC to be a content creator before Hurrican Harri____ hit, have to be made an example of, then I will take any more jail time this system feels necessary to give me and find MORE stories of weaponized restraining orders INSIDE those concrete walls in order to show how the new prisons and renovated jails, run by the same CORRUPT SHERIFFS, will be filled by this civil/criminal/psycho-bitch pipeline.
#HeToo
*a special thanks to all the readers and supporters I know who are NOT a part of the Victim Industry, it’s going to take both sides of the gender divide to stop lawfare and protect ACTUAL victims of abuse.