
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Ammon Bundy, the far-right activist who led the takeover of a federal wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon, has declared bankruptcy after loss in a defamation suit against an Idaho hospital last year required him to pay over $50 million in damages.
As reported by the Columbian, in the year since, Bundy had reportedly lost his home and went into hiding in Utah.
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The defamation suit filed by St. Luke’s Regional Health accused Bundy and Diego Rodriguez of making defamatory statements against the hospital and its employees after Rodriguez’s infant grandson was removed from his family for several days and taken to St. Luke’s, due to severe…