McVeigh’s Sister Said to Testify for Government in Bomb Case

Jennifer McVeigh will testify for the government when she appears before the grand jury investigating the Oklahoma City bombing, sources said Friday.

“She’s cut a deal,” a federal law enforcement source told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. “She’s now considered a friendly witness.”

Jennifer McVeigh, who is thought to share the anti-government views of her brother, bombing suspect Timothy J. McVeigh, was subpoenaed Thursday and is to testify next Wednesday, according to unidentified sources quoted in the Buffalo News.

FBI agents have questioned Jennifer McVeigh at length since the April 19 explosion that killed 168 people and injured more than 500. Her brother and Terry L. Nichols are the only people charged in the bombing.

The 21-year-old community college student is believed to have information about her brother’s involvement with explosives, his political views and his anger over the government’s handling of the Branch Davidian standoff near Waco, Tex., sources told the News.

The Washington Post reported last month that she told the FBI her brother once asked her to exchange two $100 bills from a bank robbery for smaller denominations. That would bolster investigators’ theory that McVeigh supported himself and financed the bombing with robberies.

The Post’s unidentified sources also said she told the FBI that her brother told her he narrowly avoided a car crash last year that could have killed him because he was carrying explosives.

Jennifer McVeigh ducked inside her family’s house in Pendleton, N.Y., on Friday when a photographer drove up. Her lawyer refused to take a call from the Associated Press. An FBI official in Buffalo declined to comment.