Still doesn't sound correct, but then again everything I'm finding about the Inslaw case says it's an absolute maze of craziness, in both the official version and the conspiracies.
Thanks for some fun reading on a weird corner of history!
Yeah, it would make a great basis for a movie / miniseries / 7 season flagship TV drama blockbuster.. ;)
The really weird thing about it, I guess, is that in the original Inslaw complaint an actual judge actually ruled in an actual court case that the actual frickin' Justice Department illegally obtained software by "trickery fraud and deceit!"
Anyway, muckrock.com has some sober and very well sourced and informed reading on the topic - the pages I linked are a sample of that - but of course it's the wilder end that would provide the best subplots in an adaptation.
One version was that the Cabazon immunity
> made it feasible to pursue on the reservation the development and/or manufacture of materials whose development or manufacture would be subject to stringent controls off the reservation.
- from Michael Riconosciuto's affidavit in the Inslaw case, which can be found at http://www.larsschall.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Riconos...
The claims in this document were elaborated in various ways through the 90s and beyond by all shades of conspiracy-inclined folk, and I wouldn't put too much stock in any particular thing Riconosciuto says, let alone the elaborations of others, though the literature flowing from his various claims remains interesting to me personally.