On February 20th, 2024, I was arrested by the FBI/LAPD, while working in Los Angeles, California. I was served with a $750,000 Fugitive Warrant that was issued by Missoula, Montana County Attorney Matt Jennings. After fighting extradition for 4 months in LA County Jail, I was extradited 1200 miles to Missoula, MT. On March 20, 2025, I was released – “not guilty” – after spending a total of 400 days in County Jail.
Anyone that’s been following the startup of my business since 2016, knows that legal and social attacks – in the form of defamation and false allegations – are nothing new. I wrote about this phenomenon in my Prison Release Statement 2021. What is new, is that for the first time in almost a decade, my lawyers have evidence of defamation; a cover-up; perjury; illegal orders; unlawful arrest; illegal seizure; unlawful extradition; violations of free speech; speedy trial; excessive bail; and multiple due process violations.
A) Miscarraige of Justice:
- 9-year malicious prosecution
- 1100+ days locked in (4) Jails and Prisons
- Violations of Montana and California state laws
- Violations of Constitutional rights (1st; 4th; 5th; 6th; 8th; 14th Amendments)
When I landed in Missoula, Montana, prosecutors attempted to revoke my probation, and imprison me for 12 years. Not only did I not violate probation, I wasn’t even on probation… I had discharged from probation and moved to California in 2022.
B) Order granting motion to dismiss and strike: (DC-17–715)(2025)
- In 2025, the Honorable Judge John Larson dismissed the illegal revocation of my discharged sentence.
- He also reversed Judge Halligan’s illegal order reimposing probation, and struck it from the record.
Then Prosecutors accused me of “threatening to kill multiple people“. It was discovered that these allegations originated in 2016, but were covered-up and hidden from court records/news media for seven years (2016-2023). Poor Matt Jennings’ ridiculous position after nine years (2016-2025), is that he’s finally caught me – working on a brand new $100K custom built car in Beverly Hills – talking about how I’m going to file a Federal Lawsuit, because I never threatened to kill anyone.
There is a gag order in place preventing me from publishing specific information about this case. Supreme Court appeals and civil litigation are pending.
C) Illegal Orders ~ Perjury ~ Unlawful Extradition:
- Judge Halligan made illegal orders (2019-2023)
- Illegally reimposed a discharged sentence (2023)
- Illegal orders censoring social media/website
- Probation conditions (2019)
- Protection order (2023)
- >>> Redacted per gag order. Supreme Court appeals and civil litigation pending <<<
- Missoula County Attorney Matt Jennings maliciously prosecuted me for crimes outside his jurisdiction.
- Committed Perjury and lied about my location in a Governor’s extradition warrant (2024)
- Enforced illegal censorship on social media/website (2023)
- Illegally filed for reimposition of a discharged sentence (January 2023)
- Illegally filed for revocation of that discharged sentence (December 2023)
- Signed his end of a 12-year Prison agreement (2024)
- Signed his end of a 12-year Prison agreement (2024)
- Probation Officer Jeremy Lizotte illegally filed for revocation of a discharged sentence (2023)
- Signed his end of a 10-year Prison sentence (2024)
D) Cover-Up ~ Conspiracy ~ Defamation ~ Smear Campaign:
- >>> Redacted per gag order. Supreme Court appeals and civil litigation pending <<< …allegations were covered-up and hidden from Court records/news media for 7 years (2016-2023)
- Former Missoulian reporter Dillon Kato published a cover-up story on the internet and in the local newspaper (2018)
- I was Prosecuted for multiple crimes I didn’t commit (2016-2025)
- “Threatening to kill multiple people”
- ”Running a car off the road”
- ”Beating up my ex-girlfriend”
- ”Absconding from Probation”
- ”Violating conditional discharge from supervision”
- ”Violating a protection order”
- ”Weapons violations”
- ”Using/Selling Drugs”
- ”Violence”
- ”Resisting”
- My Instagram Business account was taken down and deleted due to reported “threats” (2023)
- Monitized advertising account had 3500 followers
- Celebrity contacts
- 300 posts covered the entire startup of my business and all of my work/travels (2016-2023)
- Missoula Law Enforcement entered false data and illegal orders into my FBI NCIS record
- $750K Fugitive Warrant
- ”Violence”
- ”Weapons”
- ”Resisting”
E) Unlawful Arrest ~ Illegal Seizure ~ Unlawful Extradition:
- The FBI/LAPD arrested me and illegally seized/destroyed 100% of my business property (2024)
- Business vehicle/property worth $107,500.00
- iPad – Macbook – Photos – Music – Data
- 25+ years of published/unpublished work
- All of my brand new clothing
- My brand new memory foam bed, pillows, and bedding
- Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed my extradition warrant (2024)
- Warrant contained Perjury about my location from Missoula County Attorney Matt Jennings
- California Governor Gavin Newsome signed my extradition warrant (2024)
- Warrant contained Perjury about my location from Missoula County Attorney Matt Jennings
I contacted the FBI, the the United States Department of Justice, the Montana Attorney General‘s office, the California Attorney General‘s office, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte’s office, and California Governor Gavin Newsome‘s office… None of them took any action to assist or to stop these illegal acts of Government. (2023-2025)
My name is Andrew Emmings. I am a 44-year old Jewish civil rights activist and small business startup entrepreneur, living in Los Angeles. I want to thank everyone for their continuing support over the last 10 years. Business is shutdown and will remain shutdown until these idiots write me a check.
I’ll leave you with Hunter Thompson quoting Clarence Darrow (1920):
”Gentlemen, nature works in a mysterious way. When a new truth comes upon the Earth, or a great idea necessary for mankind is born, where does it come from? Not from the Police Force or the Prosecuting Attorneys or the Judges or the Lawyers or the Doctors; not there. It comes from the despised and the outcast; it comes perhaps from Jails and Prisons; it comes from men who have dared to be rebels and think their thoughts; and their fate has been the fate of rebels. This generation gives them graves while another builds them monuments; and there’s no exception to it. It has been true since the world began, and it will be true no doubt forever.”











