In the 1990s, Yagman sued the IRS over violent conduct by one of its agents and was hired by an Idaho county to prosecute an FBI sniper in the RubyRidge shootings.
Weaver, whose wife and son were killed in a stand-off with federal agents four years ago in RubyRidge, Idaho, offered to help negotiate with the "Freemen, " who have been holed up on a ranch in east-central Montana since Monday.