Proud Boys conspiracy trial over Jan. 6 actions

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Proud Boys leader pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy over Jan. 6 actions

He's the first member of the group to admit to the charge stemming from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/06/proud-boys-leader-pleads-guilty-to-seditious-conspiracy-over-jan-6-actions-00060819?

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Fight over officer testimony roils Proud Boys sedition case

A legal fight has erupted over a Washington D.C. police officer who was communicating with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack that could shape the outcome of the upcoming trial of Tarrio and other far-right extremists.

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-proud-boys-government-and-politics-e490aa0e5ccf21555d86bd1c1fb4ec8c

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Jury selection for Proud Boys trial to resume next month

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jury selection for the seditious conspiracy trial of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants will resume in early January after a holiday break, according to court records.

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-biden-politics-timothy-kelly-967e0753d925ab51d48d3453fac228a9

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Proud Boys go to trial on sedition as Jan. 6 probe heats up

WASHINGTON (AP) — As members of the Proud Boys extremist group stormed past police lines and swarmed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, their leader cheered them on from afar, prosecutors say. “Do what must be done,” Enrique Tarrio wrote on social media. “So what do we do now?” someone asked later that day in a Proud Boys encrypted group chat.

https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-washington-state-government-district-of-columbia-legal-proceedings-merrick-garland-25247c2384b86c7ba3c248c897f82a57

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Prosecutor: Proud Boys attacked ‘heart’ of democracy on 1/6

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants led a coordinated attack on “the heart of our democracy” in a desperate attempt to keep Donald Trump in the White House, a federal prosecutor said Thursday at the start of their seditious conspiracy trial.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-violence-proud-boys-donald-trump-9db4507b29d7102e40f24af7262ae7d2

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Proud Boys expecting ‘civil war’ before Jan. 6, witness says

WASHINGTON (AP) — The month before the riot at the U.S. Capitol, members of the Proud Boys were growing increasingly angry about the outcome of the 2020 election and were expecting a “civil war,” a former member told jurors on Tuesday as he took the stand in the seditious conspiracy case against the group’s former leader.

https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-district-of-columbia-proud-boys-donald-trump-a7e5b9f263868239c06c3826b49bf0c0

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'Pig': The ugly scenes from Jan. 6 play out as another week in Proud Boys trial comes to end

U.S. Capitol Police Officer Shae Cooney told jurors this week at the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial, she was certain it was one of the defendants who called her a “pig” on Jan. 6, 2021, because he was looking right at her when he said it. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/3/2150864/--Pigs-and-traitors-Another-week-at-Proud-Boys-trial-ends-with-Capitol-Police-testimony?

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'Jubilation' when Trump called their name: Sedition trial starts to crack apart Proud Boys texts

“Jubilation” was the word that FBI Special Agent Peter Dubrowski used in court Wednesday to describe how Proud Boys reacted in their private communications when former President Donald Trump told them to “stand back and stand by” during a presidential debate in 2020. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/8/2151924/-Texts-start-to-emerge-at-sedition-trial-Trump-s-stand-back-stand-by-call-overjoyed-Proud-Boys?

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Ex-member: Proud Boys failed to carry out ‘revolution’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Proud Boys leaders plotted to violently prevent President Joe Biden from taking office because they were trying to “save the country” from what they feared would be a tyrannical government, a former member of the far-right extremist group told a jury on Wednesday.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-district-of-columbia-united-states-government-proud-boys-6ab48b3de424c00a6b4595fcac63b5cd

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Ex-member: Proud Boys were ‘tip of the spear’ after election

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Proud Boys member who pleaded guilty to plotting with group leaders to violently stop the transfer of presidential power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden told jurors Tuesday that he viewed their far-right extremist organization as “the tip of the spear” after the 2020 election.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-proud-boys-donald-trump-washington-b6f19086dd983c9a653ab83043c5523f

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Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial: Testimony emerges about 'all-out' revolution

As former President Donald Trump’s quest to overturn the results of the 2020 election at the U.S. Supreme Court failed in the weeks before Jan. 6, a dark shadow was cast over the Proud Boys and they became filled with profound anger.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/22/2154476/--All-out-revolution-Ex-Proud-Boy-leader-tells-jurors-of-desperate-road-to-Jan-6?

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Proud Boys deployed foot soldiers in sedition plot, Feds say

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are employing an unusual strategy to prove leaders of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group orchestrated a violent plot to keep President Joe Biden out of the White House, even though some of the defendants didn’t carry out the violence themselves.

https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-capitol-riot-tarrio-jan-6-09f5e86dd62580eaaef0f5413206c63e?

Proud Boy member found guilty on assault, riot charges

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A member of the far right-wing group the Proud Boys was convicted Thursday of inciting and then participating in a brawl in east Portland in 2021.

https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-tiny-toese-guilty-assault-riot-3d58ff19a729325c7ae1bc3f6aad9e95

Messages: Officer often fed information to Proud Boys leader

WASHINGTON (AP) — A police officer frequently provided Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio with internal information about law enforcement operations in the weeks before other members of his far-right extremist group stormed the U.S. Capitol, according to messages shown Wednesday at the trial of Tarrio and four associates.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-proud-boys-washington-law-enforcement-capitol-siege-07b606c578399a4e24cc382a17f6f470

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Informant didn’t spy on Proud Boys defense, prosecutors say

WASHINGTON (AP) — As revelations that a defense witness was also an FBI informant roil the already contentious Capitol riot trial of members of the far-right Proud Boys group, prosecutors said Thursday that the informant was never told to gather information about the defendants or their lawyers.

https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-jan-6-capitol-riot-informant-22492fa90fc83fde9fea6a1b93ae011e

Prosecutors rest in sedition case against Proud Boys leaders

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Monday rested their seditious conspiracy case against former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants charged with plotting to stop the transfer of presidential power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election.

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-proud-boys-enrique-tarrio-trial-bbaac6ea3f710a4f1b5e6555821510ee

Federal prosecutors reveal Proud Boys witness was informant

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors disclosed Wednesday that a witness expected to testify for the defense at the seditious conspiracy trial of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four associates was secretly acting as a government informant for nearly two years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, a defense lawyer said in a court filing.

https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-enrique-tarrio-capitol-riot-informant-ce0a1cf20c17c95b1ea3306fb70d93c4

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Proud Boy testifies that talk of ‘stacking bodies’ was locker-room banter

Proud Boys member Fernando Alonso, who was with members of the group in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021, testified on Monday that text messages about “stacking bodies” on the White House lawn were akin to locker-room banter and that members of the group were simply “knuckleheads.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/27/politics/proud-boys-locker-room-talk?

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Capitol riot: FBI informant testifies for Proud Boys defense

WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI informant who marched to the U.S. Capitol with fellow Proud Boys members on Jan. 6 testified on Wednesday that he didn’t know of any plans for the far-right extremist group to invade the building and didn’t think they inspired the violence that day.

https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-capitol-riot-jan-6-informant-3324d58c9f7ba9b3c2f4b2fe7743c920

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Proud Boys leaders’ Jan. 6 sedition trial inches to a close

WASHINGTON (AP) — After almost three months of testimony, dozens of witnesses and countless legal fights, a jury will soon decide whether the onetime leader of the Proud Boys extremist group is guilty in one of the most serious cases brought in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-seditious-conspiracy-trial-enrique-tarrio-43f54932920c1fb38ac96c4aae737a1e?

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Judge in Proud Boys trial rejects claims of government misconduct

Prosecutors did not withhold or “suppress” Jan. 6 security footage — aired in February by Tucker Carlson — from the Proud Boys now on trial for seditious conspiracy, a federal judge ruled late Sunday.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/16/judge-proud-boys-trial-ruling-00092276?

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Justice Department seeks 33 years in prison for ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio in Jan. 6 case

The Justice Department is seeking 33 years in prison for Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in one of the most serious cases to emerge from attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents.

https://apnews.com/article/enrique-tarrio-capitol-riot-proud-boys-sentencing-aa8fd5e8acbc5d173e6e462974014bc7?

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Proud Boy on house arrest in Jan. 6 case disappears ahead of sentencing

WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities are searching for a member of the Proud Boys extremist group who disappeared days before his sentencing in a U.S. Capitol riot case, where prosecutors are seeking more than a decade in prison, according to a warrant made public Friday.

https://local.newsbreak.com/naples-fl/3127877210041-proud-boy-on-house-arrest-in-jan-6-case-disappears-ahead-of-sentencing?

Proud Boy on house arrest in Jan. 6 case disappears ahead of sentencing

WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities are searching for a member of the Proud Boys extremist group who disappeared days before his sentencing in a U.S. Capitol riot case, where prosecutors are seeking more than a decade in prison, according to a warrant made public Friday.

https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-capitol-attack-proud-boy-1341d4596fb96ee2828b54d70ef7e126?

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Judge’s illness delays sentencing for ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio in Jan. 6 case

WASHINGTON (AP) — The sentencing for former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted of orchestrating the far-right extremist group’s attack on the U.S. Capitol after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, has been delayed until next week because the judge hearing the case became sick.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-sentencing-proud-boys-capitol-riot-1ab0567db6209a5a653beb4292ff6a91?

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Two ex-Proud Boys leaders get among the longest sentences in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former leaders of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group were sentenced to more than a decade each in prison Thursday for spearheading an attack on the U.S. Capitol to try to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 presidential election.

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-proud-boys-sentencing-seditious-conspiracy-5c8bf8a8e5dc6381e7387e31e554cee6?

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Proud Boy convicted of helping spearhead Capitol attack ties Jan. 6 sentence record with 18 years

WASHINGTON (AP) — A one-time leader in the Proud Boys far-right extremist group was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, tying the record for the longest sentence in the attack.

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-jan-6-proud-boys-prison-sentence-58173200af1664716cbaec8ed2c2a145?

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Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in prison for orchestrating a failed plot to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 election, capping the case with the stiffest punishment that has been handed down yet for the U.S. Capitol attack.

https://apnews.com/article/enrique-tarrio-capitol-riot-seditious-conspiracy-sentencing-da60222b3e1e54902db2bbbb219dc3fb?

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Prosecutors are appealing length of prison sentences for Proud Boys leaders convicted of Jan. 6 plot The Justice Department is appealing the length of prison sentences for four Proud Boys leaders, including former leader Enrique Tarrio, convicted of seditious conspiracy in the U.S. Capitol attack. Read more.

Why this matters: The prison terms brought down were among the longest sentences in the Jan. 6 attack but were still significantly shorter than what prosecutors had recommended, according to court filings.   Over 1,100 people have been charged with Capitol riot-related federal crimes. Approximately 60 of them have been identified as Proud Boys leaders, members or associates.

Related coverage ➤ Two ex-Proud Boys leaders get among the longest sentences in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy

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A Proud Boys member who wielded an axe handle during the Capitol riot gets over 4 years in prison

A jailed member of the Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in prison for his role in a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol three years ago, court records show.

https://apnews.com/article/william-chrestman-proud-boys-capitol-riot-7a4e4613a1e72b51459b7c72af511500?