US EditionProud Boys leaders seek $100 million over Jan. 6 prosecutions
- Five Proud Boys leaders filed a lawsuit in Orlando federal court seeking $100 million for alleged rights violations during their prosecution for the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
- The suit follows their convictions for seditious conspiracy and related crimes tied to attempting to stop Congress certifying Joe Biden's 2020 election win, with claims of insufficient probable cause and evidence tampering.
- Leaders of the far-right Proud Boys group—including Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, Zach Rehl, Ethan Nordean, and Dominic Pezzola—were convicted and received prison terms ranging from 10 to 22 years before President Trump granted them pardons or commuted their sentences.
- The lawsuit claims that FBI agents and prosecutors tampered with evidence, intimidated witnesses, and improperly monitored the attorneys involved, breaching attorney-client confidentiality, while the plaintiffs assert they neither interfered with the proceedings nor damaged any property.
- The case implies a challenge to the government's handling of the Capitol riot prosecutions and seeks to address the claimed systematic legal abuses against the five Proud Boys members.
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Proud Boys convicted in Jan. 6 attack sue government on claims of ‘political persecution’ - Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Five members of the Proud Boys who were convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges in connection with the violent assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, sued the government for $100 million Friday, claiming that federal officials had subjected them to “political persecution” as “allies of President Trump.”
Five members of an US extreme right-wing group thanks to Donald Trump after they were convicted of their role in the uptake of the Washington Capitol requested an excess of $100 million from the Department of Justice, notes AFP, taken by Agerpres.
Five police officers and four attackers died in the 2021 attack, but Trump pardoned 1,500 participants during his inauguration.
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