Martha Byrne ｜ 10-23-25
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Summary
Former NYPD Sergeant Michael McMahon is a distinguished and decorated New York City police sergeant, now retired, who served New Yorkers with honor during some of the most dangerous years of crime in America s largest city. After retiring from the department, he continued to serve through honest work as a private investigator in New Jersey. He was subsequently charged with a crime. His alleged crime was nothing more than accepting an assignment that involved surveillance for clients he had no reason to believe were connected to a sinister operation by the Chinese Communist Party known as Operation Fox Hunt.
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Michael McMahon is a distinguished and decorated New York City police sergeant,
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now retired, who served New Yorkers with honor during some of the most dangerous years of crime
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After retiring from the department, he continued to serve through honest work
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His alleged crime was nothing more than accepting an assignment that involved surveillance for clients
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he had no reason to believe were connected to a sinister operation by the Chinese Communist Party
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He performed perfectly lawful investigative work that private investigators across America perform every single day.
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Yet the U.S. Department of Justice under Joe Biden twisted these routine tasks into a theatrical display of espionage and conspiracy.
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They smeared him as if he was the one who was an enemy of the state,
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and they railroaded him into a false conviction.
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They sent Michael McMahon, a good and decent man, to prison while the true traitors of our republic walked free.
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Now at the center of this fight for an innocent man's rights stands his wife, actress and author Martha Byrne.
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She has shown courage that can only be described as incandescent.
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She has written, spoken, and now documented this horrific story in her book, An Interest of Justice,
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which exposes the corruption and cruelty of the system.
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And Martha Byrne joins us now in the Stone Zone.
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Now, if you saw Martha Byrne, you would definitely recognize her.
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She is an actress, well-known for her role in the soap opera As the World Turns, where she played the role of Lily,
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then twin sister Rose, for which she won the lead actress Emmy.
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After leaving As the World Turns, Martha starred on General Hospital, Crisis, wrote for the soap opera Bold and Beautiful,
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and she executive produced several award-winning and Emmy-nominated digital productions.
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But she joins us today not as an actress or a professional, but she joins us as a wife and a mother.
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She is married for over 30 years, 42 years, I believe, to retired New York Police Department Sergeant Michael McMahon.
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They have three children, Michael, Max, and Anne-Marie.
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And Michael, Max, and Anne-Marie need their father home with them.
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I met Mike when we were kids, and I was on As the World Turns, and he was this hero cop.
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He was an NYPD detective during the 90s, you know, with the street crime unit.
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Remember when Rudy Giuliani cleaned up New York City?
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My husband was right there at the front lines doing it, plainclothes, and earned 78 medals while he was on the NYPD.
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And then he actually got the combat cross, which is for a gang-related shooting in the Bronx from Rudy Giuliani.
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He actually put it on his neck at one police plaza and had an incredible career.
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And had a severe car accident during a police chase in the Bronx and hit a telephone pole at 50 miles an hour, which ended his career.
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And when he left and he retired from the NYPD, I was working full-time, and he was with the children, but I could see that he really missed the job.
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And he started working part-time as a private investigator, and he really enjoyed it.
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And his business took off, and he was doing some great jobs.
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And then in 2016, he got a routine phone call from a New York-based company in the fall of 16.
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The client wanted to find someone who had apparently stolen money, millions of dollars, from a family construction business.
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The construction business was in China, but the man had fled to the United States, apparently, and stolen all this money.
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And the client wanted to, you know, where's the money?
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And so my husband hired two NYPD retired detectives to work with him on this case and did basic work.
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You know, public records, found out the man had millions of dollars in real estate, LLCs, cars.
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And he did some surveillance, notified the local police every single day of surveillance with the other two NYPD officers, retired.
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He made a few thousand dollars on the case and then moved on with his life.
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All he knew about the subject that he was following was that the man was alleged to have stolen some money in China.
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And then on October 28th, 2020, you know this, Roger, the pre-dawn pounding at the door.
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And, you know, the first thing you think when you hear that knock is someone, your children, like, is everybody alive?
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It's the mother's worst nightmare to go to the door and hear Michael McMahon because it's my son's name, too.
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They were talking to my husband in the hallway.
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And my husband said, are you here about some other case he had worked on?
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They said, no, no, we know you from that case, which was weird.
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I'm what the hell just happens, you know, and I'm in this daze and I don't hear from him for hours and hours.
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And apparently when he went to be interrogated, he spoke freely.
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If something was wrong or something was, he wanted to be a part of the discussion.
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And as they're speaking to him, they're asking him strange questions.
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And then turns out he's being arrested for the Foreign Agents Registration Act, FARA, which was bizarre.
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He had no evidence that he found that he had in his possession that had anything.
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And interstate stalking, Roger, interstate stalking.
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So we're thinking, how could, this must be a mistake.
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There's a big article in the New York Post that he's China's muscle.
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And he's intimidating people and harassing people.
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So immediately, Roger, we went to his office and we started looking at all his emails.
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He had saved everything, every invoice, every text message.
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And we're trying to look and go, there's nothing here.
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It's a few days of work, a few hours of work from 2016 and 17.
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And, Roger, as you know, as soon as you take that position, you're done.
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I think it is abundantly clear in the case of retired New York police detective Michael McMahon,
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this is an upside-down crafted narrative that was developed where Michael McMahon became the villain
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while the U.S. government protected a rogue Chinese government official and his wife
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who lied to obtain residency in the U.S. while laundering tens of millions of dollars of embezzled dollars.
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There is no evidence whatsoever that Michael McMahon was ever paid by any foreign entity.
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And he's a fully licensed, fully licensed private investigator.
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So, the media here has glossed over the failure to provide due process
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and a willful January 6th-style behavior by the U.S. government
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to deny key exculpatory information to defense counsel for Michael McMahon
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and to possible manipulation of the U.S. government by the victims
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who happened to be connected to the Chinese Communist Party
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who made false statements to enter the country.
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If I hadn't experienced this myself in the District of Columbia,
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And, you know, I think, you know, there's some things about this case which are truly shocking.
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So, if, back in 2017, the FBI knew Mike was, they had enough evidence that Mike was innocent.
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And yet they were, they obtained illegal search warrants for years
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Now, the four years that this investigation went on between the FBI and New Jersey,
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the New Jersey FBI Red Bank office, and the EDNY,
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the FBI, the FBI never spoke to the three NYPD detectives,
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my husband or the two other NYPD detectives retired who were intelligence officers.
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But yet, the FBI was speaking to the Chinese agents all the time, interviewing them,
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There's communications between Robert Riley, who was an FBI agent retired in New Jersey,
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and the alleged victim regarding their immigration, a civil lawsuit against them.
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There was so much collusion going on between the actual criminals in this case,
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Roger, if these people were as dangerous as they're claiming they were,
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When you have been targeted by any foreign entity,
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you must alert the person that they have been targeted.
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And instead, they protected the enemy in this case.
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We're not allowed to talk about Mike's career on the NYPD.
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We cannot tell the jury why this man would never, ever hurt anybody.
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In my case, I was specifically prohibited from the judge from arguing that I had either been
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selectively prosecuted or that there were political motivations behind my prosecution.
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I was also prohibited from saying that the prosecutors in my case offered me a deal
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where they would have recommended no jail time if I had just agreed to testify falsely
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against President Donald Trump, which, of course, I refused to do.
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The essence of the U.S. government's case against Mike McMahon is that he didn't file
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But to be guilty of failing to file under that law, one must factually know that their clients
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The FBI and the DOJ failed to demonstrate in this case, based on what I read in your book,
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that Mike McMahon factually knew that his co-defendants were part of the Chinese Operation
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There's no legal requirement in FAR for someone to obtain a signed deposition from a client
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stating under penalty perjury that they're not an over or class nine member of the foreign
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He was doing legal work, and the government never proved that he was acting on behalf of
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On the other hand, he was persecuted by a politicized Justice Department.
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When we come back, I'm going to ask Martha Byrne about where Mike McMahon is now and what the
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next step is in terms of getting true justice in his case.
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You're listening to The Stone Zone here on the Red Apple Audio Networks, talking to mother
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and wife of Martha Byrne, who is married to the former New York Police Department Sergeant
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When we come back, we're going to ask Martha Byrne where the case stands now and what you
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can do to help Martha Byrne and her husband, Michael McMahon, and their children get justice
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She's a three-time Emmy Award winning actress, writer, and producer with a career spanning over
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At the age of 10, Martha starred on Broadway in the hit show Annie, and she's had a successful
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career, but she joins us today, not as an actress, not as a professional, but as a wife and mother
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to tell the horrific story of persecution of her husband, former New York City police detective
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She has memorialized this incredible story in a book entitled In the Interest of Justice
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It is a book that every American should read because it is shocking.
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It details the attacks on her family by the Obama-Biden Justice Department and the unrelenting
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fight by Mytha Byrne to clear her husband's name.
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Well, he was in a federal prison in Michigan, a low-security prison.
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They sent him 600 miles away, even at the sentencing.
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By the way, Roger, at the trial, nobody testified against my husband.
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The victims couldn't identify my husband in court, and the victims asked for no jail time
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And the judge gave him 18 months in federal prison because he had no remorse for the victims.
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Roger, we've just explained who these victims are.
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These people perjured themselves to put my husband in federal prison, and they sent him
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600 miles away as a retired cop into general population.
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You know, Donald Trump, when he hears this story, he is going, first of all, talk about
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They took it, and they made it look nefarious for the jury, and they lied to the jury every
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I think it's abundantly clear his real crime here is that he stumbled much too close to
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the nefarious illegal operations of the Chinese Communist Party right here inside the United
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States, where they have set up their own police stations and where Chinese special operators
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are monitoring their own citizens here in the U.S.
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As a private investigator and a decorated police officer, Mike McMahon stumbled into that operation, and that had to be covered up because it made those in power look very, very bad.
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I urge you to get to Martha Byrne's terrific book, In the Interest of Justice.
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But beyond that, I urge everyone out there to pray for justice in this matter.
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I learned in my own trial, in my own horrific fight for justice in which I was targeted at
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the Justice Department, I could have walked away free, no problem at all.
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All I had to do was agree to lie under oath and incriminate Donald Trump.
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I would have had to make it up, by the way, because I'm not aware of anything the president
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In fact, Robert Mueller's final report, which the judge refused to give my attorneys, my defense
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attorneys at trial, on page 178, we later learned, becomes very clear that they found no evidence
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of Russian collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration, or any other crime on my part.
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Yet, a jury and a judge who essentially prohibited me from having any defense whatsoever, a judge
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who withheld exculpatory evidence, very much like the judge in Mike McMahon's case, was
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So I have lived this, and this story should be shocking for every American.
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Martha, other than buying and reading a great book, which I strongly recommend, what can
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I was visited by the Blessed Mother right before my husband was arrested, and she came into my
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The Blessed Mother has gotten us through this of prayers.
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I would also encourage everyone to, if you don't mind, I know Eddie Gallagher, the Navy
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SEAL captain who was also falsely arrested for murder, who started the Pipe Hitter Foundation,
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They support first responders who are falsely accused and arrested, and lives are destroyed.
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So pipehitterfoundation.org, there's a page direct just for Mike, and we're so grateful.
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Please join us in praying for Michael McMahon, his wife of 32 years, Martha Byrne, and their
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