Feds Jailed and Fined Husband for Digging Ponds on Own Land; Widow Seeks Relief

Feds Jailed and Fined Husband for Digging Ponds on Own Land; Widow Seeks Relief
Joseph D. Robertson. Courtesy Pacific Legal Foundation
Matthew Vadum
Matthew Vadum
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Lawyers for a recently deceased Montana man’s estate say, despite his death, they may yet have a chance to challenge his federal convictions for digging ponds on his property without the government’s permission.

“Congress hasn’t authorized the agencies to tramp around on people’s property just because there is a little water on it,” senior attorney Tony Francois of the Pacific Legal Foundation told The Epoch Times.