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
Oklahoma City bombing conspiracy theories militia movement and that their motive was to retaliate against the government's handling of the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents (the bombing occurred on the second anniversary of the Waco incident). McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001 while Nichols was sentenced to life in prison. Although the indictment against McVeigh and Nichols alleged that they conspired with "others unknown to the grand jury", prosecutors, and later McVeigh himself, said the bombing was solely the work of McVeigh and Nichols. In this scenario, the two obtained fertilizer and other explosive materials over a period of months and