The current Bishop legal footprint in the repo includes: reporting and self-description around the 2021-11-16 search of Bishop's home; trial reporting describing Bishop as a witness and as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Tina Peters case; reporting about the Lindell phone warrant naming Bishop among people of interest / alleged co-conspirators; and a public-source retrieval pass for new Eastern District of Texas Bishop civil dockets. The record remains incomplete and should not be flattened into a single legal conclusion.
CTR reported that on 2021-11-16 federal agents conducted searches connected to the Mesa County election-security investigation and that Peters told Lindell one searched home belonged to Bishop. CTR also reported an official district-attorney statement that FBI personnel conducted federally authorized law-enforcement actions at four locations in Mesa and Garfield counties, with no arrests and sealed documents.
The New Yorker later reported that FBI agents searched the homes of Peters and Bishop on 2021-11-16, and that Bishop said her digital devices were seized. The America's Mom site includes Bishop's own first-person account of agents entering her home and her family witnessing the search. Treat details of the search from Bishop's site as self-description unless corroborated by a court record.
CTR / Colorado Newsline trial coverage says prosecutors considered Bishop an unindicted co-conspirator and challenged her credibility after she testified for the defense. The current repo does not retain a trial transcript or court filing that independently verifies the exact wording. Use this phrase only with attribution, date, and case context.
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CTR reported in September 2022 that a DOJ/FBI warrant for Mike Lindell's phone named Bishop, Lindell, Frank, Peters, Knisley, Brown, and Hayes. CTR further reported that DOJ described them as co-conspirators in alleged copying/theft charges related to Mesa County election data. This remains high-value reporting but needs the underlying warrant or affidavit before exact legal language should be hardened into repo voice.
The 2026-04-16 public-source pass for Bishop v. Schoening, E.D. Tex. 2:26-cv-00300, did not locate a public Justia, CourtListener, RECAP, or search-indexed docket page. The complaint, exhibits, docket sheet, filing date, service status, and related-case notices remain unresolved.
The same pass found an adjacent public Justia docket for Bishop et al v. Oltmann, E.D. Tex. 2:2026cv00190, filed 2026-03-10, with plaintiffs Neil Bishop and Sherronna Bishop and defendant Joseph Oltmann. Treat it as adjacent unless a court filing proves formal relation to Bishop v. Schoening. Justia's search-visible docket text says Neil Bishop filed a non-prisoner pro se consent to electronic notice on 2026-03-10.
The same pass also noted Bishop (PS) et al v. USA, D. Colo. 1:2025cv03407, filed 2025-10-27, by Neil T. Bishop and Sherronna P. Bishop against the USA. Justia's search-visible docket text describes early pro se deficiency / response activity and an order directing a third amended complaint by 2025-12-10. Westword reporting described that suit as challenging the 2021 search of the Bishops' Silt home. The repo still needs the complaint and docket packet before summarizing the claims in detail.
Neil Bishop appears in the current repo only in narrow, source-supported roles: co-plaintiff with Sherronna Bishop in public federal docket leads and husband / household-search context in ally or local reporting. Intercessors for America describes Bishop's husband as present during the 2021 search and handcuffed then uncuffed; it does not name him in the retained text. Local/adversarial reporting identifies her husband as Neil and says the couple sold their Silt home and moved to Texas in 2022. America Out Loud's ally-media page describes Bishop as a wife and mother of four and says her family moved from Colorado to Texas.
This is enough to mention Neil in the legal/family context, but not enough to create a full Neil Bishop entity page or infer his political, business, or operational role.
CTR's 2025-03-14 article documents a public dispute among Tina Peters, Mike Lindell, Sherronna Bishop, and Joe Oltmann over whether Lindell / Bishop paid Peters-related legal bills and whether fundraising claims were accurate. CTR reports Lindell identified Bishop as executive director of the Lindell Offense Fund but said she did not control distributions. Bishop and Oltmann made conflicting public claims. Treat all legal-bill amount and motive claims as disputed until backed by fund records, contracts, invoices, or court filings.
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