Hello mulberry, the 5 man panel was formed when they first got detained.. brown was on it, not after conviction, if you remember which informants said that? thank you.
Immediately after they were arrested, informants told the FBI Brown was appointed acting boss. That was before any panel was set up. They were informants, not rats, so the FBI wouldn't say who told them. That's what the FBI said. They could have been wrong. I don't think a ruling panel could have been set up that quickly to be in place immediately after the arrests, so somebody had to be in charge while the entire administration was at the MCC
