Bernard J. McKeon

AKA: Bernard McKeon; Barney McKeon; Barney J. McKeon
Released
Date of death:30. 06. 1998
Era:1980s
State:New York
Support
Irish republican movement
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Biography

Bernard McKeon, known as Barney, was a Leitrim-born building contractor and Irish-American activist. He was jailed for resisting a grand jury and later served a separate federal term following an arms-export conspiracy conviction.

Cases

Charges: Civil contempt for refusing to cooperate with a federal grand jury investigating arms supplies to Ireland
Incarcerated: November 1979
Released: Mar 17, 1980
Sentence: Jailed after a November 1979 subpoena; released March 17, 1980 when the grand jury expired. The obituary describes five months, but no precise entry day or documented-month total is inferred from that rounded recollection.
Charges: Conspiracy to export firearms, 18 USC 371
Incarcerated: Sep 21, 1984
Sentence: After two mistrials, convicted on the third trial in 1983. Began a three-year prison sentence September 21, 1984. A June 1985 interview places him in federal prison at Oxford, Wisconsin; the obituary also describes Danbury and confirms completed imprisonment. Exact release day remains unresolved.

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