In 2022, far-right militia supporter Ammon Bundy and his ally Diego Rodriguez turned their wrath on St. Luke’s Medical Center, accusing the Boise, Idaho hospital of wrongdoing in a child welfare case. St. Luke’s responded with a civil lawsuit, and on Monday, July 24, a jury awarded St. Luke’s more than $52 million in damages — including $26.5 million in compensatory damages and $26 million in punitive damages.
According to the Idaho Statesman’s Sally Krutzig, “The $500,000 extra in the compensatory category came as a result of the jury’s finding that violations of the Idaho Charitable Solicitation Act by Rodriguez and his Freedom Man Press business had harmed the plaintiffs.”