Overview

• Handwriting samples provided by Ramon Morales-Reyes did not match the letter, leading federal agents to conclude he did not author the threat.
• Milwaukee police and the county district attorney’s office have opened identity theft and victim intimidation investigations into the alleged framing scheme.
• Recorded jail calls implicate Reyes’s alleged assailant in orchestrating the letter campaign to derail Reyes’s testimony in a separate assault case.
• Reyes remains held by ICE on immigration grounds and past convictions, despite having no charges linked to the assassination threat.
• Reyes’s attorneys are demanding a DHS correction after the public allegations endangered his family and raised due process concerns for undocumented crime victims.