{"id":1912894,"date":"2023-04-11T04:11:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T08:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/proud-boys-defense-attorney-claims-50-informants-revealed-in-january-6-case\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T04:13:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T08:13:19","slug":"proud-boys-defense-attorney-claims-50-informants-revealed-in-january-6-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/proud-boys-defense-attorney-claims-50-informants-revealed-in-january-6-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Proud Boys Defense Attorney Claims 50 Informants Revealed In January 6 Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fproud-boys-defense-attorney-claims-50-informants-revealed-in-january-6-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1912894&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A new week brought another increase in the number of suspected informants who interacted with defendants\u00a0from the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/capitol-riot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capitol riot<\/a> on January 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Following a motion last week that asserted there were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/proud-boys-attorney-wants-unmask-informants-during-jan-6-trial-1793094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at least 40<\/a> undercover informants for the FBI and other agencies involved in the riot, a defense attorney in a high-profile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/proud-boys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proud Boys<\/a> seditious conspiracy case said in a filing on Monday the estimate has been bumped up to 50 due to new information about plain-clothes Metropolitan Police Department officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd just this past weekend, the defense learned that there were at least 10 to 12 additional, previously unknown plain-clothes MPD officers among the Proud Boys,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/julie_kelly2\/status\/1645431077052317696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the filing states<\/a>. \u201cThis brings the total number of informants among defendants on or around Jan. 6 to 50 or more. And there are reasons to suspect the true number is higher.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Another doozy of a motion filed today by a Proud Boy defense lawyer related to informants, undercover agents<\/p>\n<p>Number of DC Metro undercovers keeps growing: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3vOrIUZNPT\">pic.twitter.com\/3vOrIUZNPT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Julie Kelly \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@julie_kelly2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/julie_kelly2\/status\/1645431077052317696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The case revolves around former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, and four other members \u2014 Zachary Rehl, Joe Biggs, Ethan Nordean, Dominic Pezzola \u2014 who were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/leader-proud-boys-and-four-other-members-indicted-federal-court-seditious-conspiracy-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indicted in federal court<\/a> for seditious conspiracy and other offenses related to January 6, 2021, the day a crowd of people entered the U.S. Capitol and disrupted lawmakers who were meeting to certify Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 election victory. They face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of seditious conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Informants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/about\/faqs\/what-is-the-fbis-policy-on-the-use-of-informants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are used by<\/a> law enforcement for various investigations, not just those related to January 6, but lawyers for the Proud Boys defendants have made them a centerpiece of their clients\u2019 lengthy trial. An informant for the FBI, who told his handler the Proud Boys \u201cdid not do it, nor inspire\u201d the violence, even <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/proud-boys-capitol-riot-jan-6-informant-3324d58c9f7ba9b3c2f4b2fe7743c920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testified for the defense<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it is the sheer number of informants that have fueled concerns not only about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fbi-and-capitol-police-identified-credible-threats-but-failed-to-follow-procedure-in-run-up-to-january-6-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intelligence failures<\/a> leading up to January 6, but also suspicions about how some of them acted in the events leading up to the U.S. Capitol breach and questions about the retention of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The filing on Monday, excerpts of which were <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/julie_kelly2\/status\/1645431077052317696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared on Twitter<\/a> by American Greatness senior writer Julie Kelly, stressed that new information obtained by the defense is \u201cplainly exculpatory\u201d and claimed that undercover operatives were \u201cplanted among the protesters as instigators; not just observers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ has said it will stick to responding to allegations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/proud-boys-attorney-wants-unmask-informants-during-jan-6-trial-1793094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raised by the defense<\/a> attorneys in court. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/julie_kelly2\/status\/1645482519460999168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a new court filing of its own<\/a>, the DOJ insisted there is nothing \u201cper se\u201d \u2014 Latin for \u201cby itself\u201d \u2014 \u201cexculpatory about using confidential human sources to gather\u201d information about people suspected of planning violence.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 27 months after the chaos on January 6, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Columbia says more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/27-months-jan-6-attack-capitol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1,020 arrests<\/a> have been made in connection to January 6 and notes some 533 defendants have pleaded guilty, including four to a federal charge of seditious conspiracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new week brought another increase in the number of suspected informants who interacted with defendants\u00a0from the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. Following a motion last week that asserted there were\u00a0at least 40 undercover informants for the FBI and other agencies involved in the riot, a defense attorney in a high-profile Proud Boys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1912895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4930,3878,4856,3998,17268,3780,4688],"class_list":["post-1912894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-attorney","tag-boys","tag-claims","tag-defense","tag-informants","tag-january","tag-revealed"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1912895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}