With the deaths of Conspirators Mark Brnovich, former Arizona Attorney General, and recently Robert Mueller the Director of the FBI I would be remiss if I didn’t inform the public of the first conspirator to escape prosecution.
“Reverend Joseph Anthom Darby Jr. [1] was a prominent civil rights activist and pastor in South Carolina who passed away on August 8, 2025, at the age of 74, one day after his birthday. A fourth-generation minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, he served as pastor at several churches across the state, most recently at Nichols Chapel AME Church in Charleston.
Joseph Darby Jr. was a respected social justice advocate, serving as First Vice President of both the Charleston Branch and the South Carolina Conference of Branches of the NAACP. He played a key role in advancing civil rights, including authoring the initial draft of economic and tourism sanctions that contributed to the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina State House dome in 2015.
He was also active in interfaith and community leadership, serving as president of the Greater Columbia Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance and the Greater Columbia Interfaith Clergy Association. Reverend Darby was honored with numerous awards, including induction into the South Carolina Black Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Richland School District One Hall of Fame in 2004.
It is important to distinguish him from Joe Darby, the U.S. Army whistleblower in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, who is a different individual.” [2]
The Reverend Darby was responsible for starting the extortion scheme that has been hanging over heads of many co-conspirators for nearly 24 years.
His death in 2025 was a travesty as he was the first of four co-conspirators to die before the case is released. Robert Mueller, Mark Brnovich and Bruce Musso are the others. Musso was the engineer at WCOO in Charleston South Carolina and was to be a prominent witness in the Fourth Circuit case until his mysterious demise. My understanding is that he died on the steps leading to a hospital. Everyone knew he had a weak heart. Nobody ever told the Charleston District Court that a major defendant had died during trial and would not be able to be deposed.
I am quite sure the Reverend Darby did a lot of good things in his life. NAACP Extortion was not one of them.
[1] https://www.pasleysmortuary.com/obituaries/revjoseph-darby-jr