Michael William Brescia Michael William Brescia Michael William Brescia is a convicted bank robber who has also been alleged to have been involved in the Oklahoma City bombing. Born to a firefighter father and accountant mother in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Brescia was both a member of the Aryan Republican Army and a part-time student at La Salle University, at the time of his arrest. He was also an army buddy of Timothy McVeigh and one-time resident of Elohim City. Michael William Brescia was recruited for the Aryan Republican Army by Aryan Nations Pennsylvania state leader, Mark W. Thomas. Private lawsuits by Edye Smith and
McVeigh v. Cohen McVeigh v. Cohen McVeigh v. Cohen was a 1998 lawsuit in U.S. federal court in which a member of the U.S. Armed Forces challenged the military's application of its "Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) policy, which established guidelines for service by gays and lesbians in the U.S. military. The U.S. Navy sought to discharge Timothy R. McVeigh for declaring his homosexuality. McVeigh's suit denied he had made such a declaration and charged the Navy with failure to adhere to its own DADT policy and, in the course of investigating him, with violating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. McVeigh won a