Alex Rienzie

Lawyer, filmmaker and investor

[Right On Crime @RightOnCrime]

Attorney @AlexRienzie joined ROC’s @RachelWrightROC on a brand new episode of The ROC Podcast to break down how a well-intentioned regulation was stretched beyond its purpose — turning a simple trail-running error into a federal charge: https://t.co/52LbBoHCfW

[Alex Rienzie @AlexRienzie]

@TMZ @TMZLive shout out from Michelino Sunseri ❤️ thank you @POTUS and U.S. Attorney Darin Smith for your efforts to resolve this absurd case!

Stayed tuned for upcoming bills to fix this pervasive overcriminalization problem: the Count the Crimes to Cut and Mens Rea Acts (through @JudiciaryGOP committee) and an upcoming bill to expand federal expungements — the Feds are way behind most states on the latter.

Props to @RightOnCrime @tolmanbrett @RepAndyBiggsAZ @RepHageman @chiproytx @Cato and so many others for leading the charge!

[Alex Rienzie @AlexRienzie]

Thank you @POTUS for putting a just end to this wasteful prosecution 🙏

[Alex Rienzie @AlexRienzie]

Well, my first case just resolved with a @POTUS Pardon. With the legal saga of Michelino Sunseri behind us, Connor Burkesmith and I are kicking off post-production on Racing Grand Teton, a feature-length documentary covering the speed record and legal fall-out, slated for 2026 release.

So many individuals and groups contributed to this outcome: co-counsel Ed Bushnell and @PacificLegal’s Damien Schiff and Michael Poon;@RepHageman (WY), @RepAndyBiggsAZ and their staff; House @JudiciaryGOP’s Crime Subcommittee; Office of White House Counsel and Interior Solicitor; @Cato’s Michael Fox and Clark Neily; @RightOnCrime and @tolmanbrett; @TheFIREorg and @NPPA (who supported our first-amendment lawsuit last winter); @NCLAlegal; and many @Harvard_Law friends / classmates who tolerated this rookie's endless questions.

https://t.co/yAjHOOd6kF

[Brett L. Tolman @tolmanbrett]

So great. Proud to join many in advocating for justice.

[Right On Crime @RightOnCrime]

Right On Crime applauds the U.S. House Judiciary Committee for passing three essential bills out of committee representing significant progress in addressing the federal overcriminalization crisis: the Count the Crimes to Cut Act of 2025, the Mens Rea Reform Act, and the End Endless Criminal Statutes Act.
@RepChipRoy
@RepAndyBiggsAZ
@RepLucyMcBath
@JudiciaryGOP

@tolmanbrett
@RachelWrightROC

See ROC’s full press release and read more about the Count the Crimes to Cut Act of 2025, the Mens Rea Reform Act, and the End Endless Criminal Statutes Act. 👇

[alexandriabrown @alexthechick]

🧵 I went looking for the actual text of the EO on prescription drug prices since no one is actually linking that and I have to do everything around here and I found this that was issued on Friday and I missed it.

I cannot stress how important this is.

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[Audrey Fahlberg @AudreyFahlberg]

Scoop: Trump to sign executive order discouraging "criminal enforcement of regulatory offenses, prioritizing prosecutions only for those who knowingly violate regulations and cause significant harm," a White House official tells @NRO

[New Civil Liberties Alliance @NCLAlegal]

Can Congress give unelected bureaucrats the power to send you to jail?

The National Park Service is criminalizing BASE jumping across 85 million acres of public land—without any real law from Congress. Our 100th case takes this abuse head-on.

🎥 Watch this short clip to see how absurd it gets—and how NCLA is fighting back.

👉 Then check out the full episode of Courtside Commentary for the full story: https://t.co/2PSYLLmll1

[Alex Rienzie @AlexRienzie]

Look forward to officially assisting Michelino Sunseri on his pending criminal trial in U.S. District Court

Taking a step back from my docuseries Racing Grand Teton with @CONNORBURKESMTH while the case is ongoing

[Alex Rienzie @AlexRienzie]

@foxmike90 Thanks for the support @foxmike90

🧵👇🏼 on Michelino’s story

[Alex Rienzie @AlexRienzie]

1/ Trailer drop for Racing Grand Teton: a docuseries about personal resilience, an impossible physical feat in breathtaking terrain, and unexpectedly, political drama

@CONNORBURKESMTH

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[Pirate Wires @PirateWires]

On June 8th, 2001, Frank Gambalie III hiked for 20 miles to the summit of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and set up camp. After waking up the next morning, he put his BASE jumping suit on, jumped off El Capitan's steep face, and flew.

On the ground, park rangers were waiting to arrest him. Instead of surrendering, Gambalie ran to the nearby Merced River, ditched his gear, flipped the rangers off, and dove head first into the water. Nearly a month later, the 28-year-old’s body was recovered by Yosemite divers 300 yards from where he had entered.

While there is no law against recreational wingsuit jumping on the books, criminal charges are based on a National Park Service attorney’s interpretation of a 34-word subsection of a 1966 regulation known as the “aerial delivery rule”, which was written to prevent supply drops by aircraft within the parks. Explanations for the enforcement range from aesthetics – since the 1980s the NPS has maintained that the sport is “too free-spirited and unmanageable” – to public safety, though the fatality rate for BASE jumping in the U.S. in 2023 was zero.

The full story, however, is more complex, and darker.

Today in Pirate Wires, wingsuit adventurer and BASE Access Board President @elbrendan chronicles the ‘Yosemite Mafia’ –a corrupt group of agents within the National Parks Service whose crimes include kidnapping and child molestation– and the ongoing war against the sport he loves.

Read the full story on our site 👇

[Alex Rienzie @AlexRienzie]

@TheFIREorg @NPPA @SenateGOP @SenateDems @elonmusk @DOGE @PamBondi @DonaldJTrumpJr @joerogan @charliekirk11 @realDonaldTrump @BaseAccess @NCLAlegal @elbrendan 10/ Follow along here or on Instagram for updates (social links at our film website, below)

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[Alex Rienzie @AlexRienzie]

1/ Trailer drop for Racing Grand Teton: a docuseries about personal resilience, an impossible physical feat in breathtaking terrain, and unexpectedly, political drama

@CONNORBURKESMTH

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[Alex Rienzie @AlexRienzie]

@TheFIREorg @NPPA @SenateGOP @SenateDems @elonmusk @DOGE @PamBondi @DonaldJTrumpJr @joerogan @charliekirk11 @realDonaldTrump 9/ We’re not the only ones facing prosecution for recreation — check out @BaseAccess v. NPS and Lesh v. US, both represented by @NCLAlegal the force behind Chevron-repeal

Props to @elbrendan for leading the charge

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