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Proud Boys leader Tarrio, 4 top lieutenants charged with seditious conspiracy in widening Jan. 6 case

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Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, longtime chairman of the extremist group Proud Boys, was indicted on a new federal charge of seditious conspiracy with four top lieutenants on Monday. The charges expand the Justice Department’s allegations of an organized plot to unleash political violence to prevent the confirmation of President Biden’s election victory on Jan. 6, 2021, when a pro-Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol.

Tarrio, 38, was not in Washington that day, but allegedly guided the group’s activities from nearby Maryland as Proud Boys members engaged in the earliest and most aggressive attacks to confront and overwhelm police at several critical points on restricted Capitol grounds. One co-defendant, Dominic Pezzola, of Rochester, N.Y., broke through the first window of the building at 2:13 p.m. with a stolen police riot shield, authorities said.
A new 10-count superseding indictment returned Monday morning charges Tarrio, Pezzola and three other existing co-defendants — Ethan Nordean, of Seattle, Joe Biggs, of the Daytona Beach area, and Zachary Rehl, of Philadelphia — with coordinating travel to Washington and the movements of the group around the Capitol that day. The group is also accused of plotting to foment a riot and storm Congress, action that eventually forced the evacuation of lawmakers meeting to confirm the 2020 election results.







Federal prosecutors previously leveled the historically rare charge of seditious conspiracy for the first time in the Jan. 6 attack against the founder and leader of the extremist group Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, and 10 associates. Since filing the charges in January, a year after the mob violence, two of Rhodes’s co-defendants and one other Oath Keeper member have pleaded guilty to the charge and are cooperating with the Justice Department: Joshua James, 34, of Alabama, Brian Ulrich, 44, of Georgia, and William Todd Wilson, 44, of North Carolina.
But the new charges show that prosecutors are pulling together a wider picture of organization within extremist groups that shared overlapping if not common goals.
At the same time, the deepening criminal investigation has exposed hints of coordination among groups, even as the FBI and Justice Department are expanding their probe into the ranks of former president Donald Trump’s political orbit. The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack is expected to shine a spotlight on such connections in public hearings beginning Thursday.

 
Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, longtime chairman of the extremist group Proud Boys, was indicted on a new federal charge of seditious conspiracy with four top lieutenants on Monday. The charges expand the Justice Department’s allegations of an organized plot to unleash political violence to prevent the confirmation of President Biden’s election victory on Jan. 6, 2021, when a pro-Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol.

Tarrio, 38, was not in Washington that day, but allegedly guided the group’s activities from nearby Maryland as Proud Boys members engaged in the earliest and most aggressive attacks to confront and overwhelm police at several critical points on restricted Capitol grounds. One co-defendant, Dominic Pezzola, of Rochester, N.Y., broke through the first window of the building at 2:13 p.m. with a stolen police riot shield, authorities said.
A new 10-count superseding indictment returned Monday morning charges Tarrio, Pezzola and three other existing co-defendants — Ethan Nordean, of Seattle, Joe Biggs, of the Daytona Beach area, and Zachary Rehl, of Philadelphia — with coordinating travel to Washington and the movements of the group around the Capitol that day. The group is also accused of plotting to foment a riot and storm Congress, action that eventually forced the evacuation of lawmakers meeting to confirm the 2020 election results.







Federal prosecutors previously leveled the historically rare charge of seditious conspiracy for the first time in the Jan. 6 attack against the founder and leader of the extremist group Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, and 10 associates. Since filing the charges in January, a year after the mob violence, two of Rhodes’s co-defendants and one other Oath Keeper member have pleaded guilty to the charge and are cooperating with the Justice Department: Joshua James, 34, of Alabama, Brian Ulrich, 44, of Georgia, and William Todd Wilson, 44, of North Carolina.
But the new charges show that prosecutors are pulling together a wider picture of organization within extremist groups that shared overlapping if not common goals.
At the same time, the deepening criminal investigation has exposed hints of coordination among groups, even as the FBI and Justice Department are expanding their probe into the ranks of former president Donald Trump’s political orbit. The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack is expected to shine a spotlight on such connections in public hearings beginning Thursday.

All right! All right!

We'll give you conspiracy, but, NO COLLUSION!
 
It was a coup. An armed, organized coup. Not one elected Republican in Iowa will acknowledge it. That is sad and pathetic.
The one tiny silver lining is that it appears the DoJ is building something, and pieces of garbage like Roger Stone and Steve Bannon should be sweating.
 
It was a coup. An armed, organized coup. Not one elected Republican in Iowa will acknowledge it. That is sad and pathetic.
The one tiny silver lining is that it appears the DoJ is building something, and pieces of garbage like Roger Stone and Steve Bannon should be sweating.
It was a multi-pronged attack in case any of their individual efforts failed, which fortunately most have. But, they also planted the seeds to do it again in 2024 with all of their changes in voter suppression laws and running RW fringe candidates for various Secretaries of State in swing states where just a little bit of manipulation can flip a state's outcome to their favor.

They have seriously undermined the integrity of our election process which will take years/decades to regain the public's confidence. They truly do not believe in our democratic ideals and have done their best to undermine them.

They need to pay a serious price for this including a minimum of removal from public service or any involvement in participating in our electoral processes. They also need to have a lifetime ban from voting.

Lock them up and purge all of their efforts and their remaining embedded associates to undermine our system of fair elections.
 
No way , this just can't be! After all, Trump said they were "special people" and that he "loved them." The RNC said that they were just engaging in "legitimate political discourse." There must be a mistake here!
Might want to wait to see what actually happens for celebrating. If I had a nickel foe each of these threads that have ended as a nothing burger I'd go buy a lake property.
 
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