My guess is that either his story is BS (entirely possible) or else they were trying to get him to incriminate himself or possibly other members of Anonymous. I

My guess is that either his story is BS (entirely possible) or else they were trying to get him to incriminate himself or possibly other members of Anonymous. I know the charges against him were trumped up, and based on what he was arrested for he didn't have any particular skills that would have piqued the interest of the FBI (ability to run nmap and write SQL injections that don't work aren't exactly world class skills) so the only thing they really would have been interested in him for is logically his Anonymous connections. As others have pointed out it also doesn't match the FBIs normal modus operandi, this smells more like an attempt at self incrimination to me. I will say though that if this story is BS he at least came up with it while he was going through the prosecution not after the fact. The fact that the lawyer (Ekeland) is making statements about it makes me believe that this guy was telling him the FBI was making these offers to him during the uh, pre-trial I guess? Not really sure what the actual term for that is.