Riley Troy Graham is Innocent

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Contact: Starr Wasler Foundation for Riley Troy Graham

Email: RileyTroyGraham@gmail.com

Date: 06/30/2025

Federal Indictment Strategy Called Into Question: Riley Troy Graham Declares Complete Innocence, Exposes Systemic Prosecutorial Overreach in 2000 Drug Case

Washington DC – In a powerful new statement, Riley Troy Graham is speaking out to expose what he calls a deliberate manipulation of federal statutes in a 2000 five-count indictment brought against him—an indictment that, according to Graham, was built on fictional constructs of criminal conduct, not facts or lawful application of the law.

> “Let me be clear,” Graham states. “I am unequivocally innocent of every charge brought against me. There is no gray area, no inference, and no hidden admission—the crimes the government alleged did not occur as charged, and in some cases, not at all.”

Graham was charged under multiple federal statutes, including:

21 U.S.C. § 848 – Continuing Criminal Enterprise (CCE)

21 U.S.C. § 846 – Drug Conspiracy

21 U.S.C. § 841 – Attempted Possession

Attempted Murder of a Federal Witness

18 U.S.C. § 1956 – Money Laundering Conspiracy

While the indictment mirrored statutory language, Graham argues the prosecution constructed composite charges that defied the congressionally defined “unit of prosecution”—the legal standard that determines how and when separate crimes can be charged. The government, he alleges, stacked redundant charges, stretched unrelated activities across multiple jurisdictions, and charged him with overlapping crimes for the same conduct—none of which involved tangible, provable criminal acts.

> “At the time of the indictment, the government did not possess even a single verified drug violation involving me,” Graham asserts. “Instead, they bundled unrelated financial transactions, international remittances, and activities of others into an imagined conspiracy, weaponizing their prosecutorial discretion to create a crime that simply did not exist.”

A Pattern with National Implications

This case, Graham says, is not an isolated injustice—it is part of a documented federal strategy disproportionately applied to Black defendants across the United States for over 75 years. By aggregating unconnected conduct and applying inflated conspiracy laws, federal prosecutors have repeatedly been able to transform non-criminal behavior into multi-count federal indictments, resulting in excessive sentences and wrongful convictions.

> “It’s time to call it what it is,” says Graham. “This is not justice. It’s legal engineering designed to imprison people who look like me.”

Call to Action: Demand Oversight and Reform

Graham is calling on civil rights organizations, legal research institutions, media outlets, and public officials to:

Examine the abuse of “course-of-conduct” indictments that undermine due process.

Reassess convictions based on layered or duplicated charges for the same acts.

Address systemic racial disparities in federal prosecutorial practices.

Demand legislative reforms to clarify and limit the use of conspiracy statutes.

A full blog post and legal white paper will be released in the coming weeks, with detailed analysis of the indictment, the misapplication of statutes, and a roadmap for systemic reform.

For media inquiries, interviews, or access to legal records and background, contact Starr Wasler Foundation at RileyTroyGraham@gmail.com