{"id":2444813,"date":"2025-06-09T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-government-sued-over-jan-6-prosecutions\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:14:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:14:59","slug":"us-government-sued-over-jan-6-prosecutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-government-sued-over-jan-6-prosecutions\/","title":{"rendered":"US Government Sued Over Jan. 6 Prosecutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fus-government-sued-over-jan-6-prosecutions%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=2444813&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>Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, along with four other members, has filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the Department of Justice in a Florida federal court. The plaintiffs allege that their prosecution for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-proud-boys-indicted-for-seditious-conspiracy-in-capitol-riot\/\" title=\"Five ... Indicted For ... In Capitol Riot\">seditious conspiracy related<\/a> to the January 6 Capitol attack was politically motivated and infringed upon their constitutional rights. They claim that the government relied on their &#8220;offensive rhetoric&#8221; rather than any concrete actions,arguing they did not participate in or incite violence during the events of that day,nor did they plan any obstruction at the Capitol. The lawsuit seeks $100 million in damages, asserting that the prosecution&#8217;s strategies were novel and unjust, as they suggest individuals can be convicted based on the actions of others without direct involvement. The suit also alleges improper surveillance and manipulation of evidence by federal agents.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Proud Boys boss Enrique Tarrio and four of his underlings have filed a lawsuit accusing FBI prosecutors of having been motivated by personal animus when they went after the group.<\/p>\n<p>Filed in a Florida federal court on Friday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/25965692-tarrio-v-usa-complaint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit<\/a> alleged that both the Department of Justice and FBI committed &ldquo;multiple violations&rdquo; of the five Proud Boys members&rsquo; &ldquo;constitutional rights&rdquo; via their &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftist-wisconsin-ags-phony-fake-electors-case-crumbling\/\" title=\"Leftist Wisconsin AG&#039;s Phony &#039;Fake Electors&#039; Case Crumbling\">political prosecution&#038;rdquo<\/a>; of them over their alleged actions before and during the Jan. 6 Capitol incursion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Washington, D.C. 6.6.2025 Chairman of The Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio announces that he and four members are suing the US Federal Government for the Civil Damages of $100 million to cover their combined ruined lives, medical neglect, lost benefits, torture and defamation caused by&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6UGWqETab4\">pic.twitter.com\/6UGWqETab4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Corinne Cliford &#127482;&#127480; (@corinnecliford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/corinnecliford\/status\/1931135848109773000?\">June 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tarrio and his underlings &mdash; Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, Ethan Nordean, and Dominic Pezzola &mdash; were convicted of seditious conspiracy in 2023 for allegedly orchestrating the Jan. 6 incursion.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\")); 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a leftist bugbear used to describe rhetoric offensive to them that they claim provokes violent acts,&rdquo; the suit explained.<\/p>\n<p>As proof, the suit noted that none of the five directly participated in the Jan. 6 incursion. In fact, Tarrio, the group&rsquo;s leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mike-huckabee-man-convicted-seditious-conspiracy-j6-wasnt-even-dc-now-look-jury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wasn&rsquo;t even present<\/a> for it. All they did, the suit argued, was talk to protesters before and during Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Members of the Proud Boys, a patriotic activist organization, were present at January 6, including all Plaintiffs but Tarrio, but did not engage in violence or provocation of the crowd,&rdquo; the suit read. &ldquo;The Plaintiffs, however, spoke with people who were at the Capitol before, during, and after January 6.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors targeted the five based on this alone, according to the suit.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[T]he Defendants [prosecutors] argued that any wrongful or illegal action taken by any member of the crowd present on January 6 was attributable to the Plaintiffs, regardless of whether any of the Plaintiffs had actually ever directed, spoken to, or even known the person committing the crime,&rdquo; the lawsuit explained.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It&rsquo;s going to be hilarious when the left has the ultimate melt down once they realize that they just turned Enrique Tarrio and all of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, &#039;Trump is a Tyrant&#039; (VIDEO)\">proud boys<\/a> into millionaires by wrongfully persecuting them to death over January 6th.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Philip Anderson (@VoteHarrisOut) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VoteHarrisOut\/status\/1931148796752466079?\">June 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The suit went on to argue that Tarrio and his underlings &ldquo;did not obstruct the proceedings at the Capitol, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/video-secret-service-moves-climate-radical-targets-trump-presidential-plaque\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">destroy government property<\/a>, resist arrest, conspire to impede the police, or participate in civil disorder, nor did they plan for or order anyone else to do so.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The suit further called the prosecution&rsquo;s strategy against the five one so &ldquo;novel&rdquo; that it makes it so that &ldquo;you can be convicted for conspiracy with people over whom you have no authority and to whom you gave no orders.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit also alleged that the feds illegally spied on the Proud Boys the way the feds illegally once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-york-times-concedes-obama-fbi-spied-trump-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spied on<\/a> President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To secure an unfair advantage in litigation, and ensure that the Plaintiffs were convicted and sent to prison regardless of the strength of the government&rsquo;s case, the FBI and DOJ monitored attorney-client communications and used paid confidential informants as spies on the Plaintiffs&rsquo; and the Plaintiffs&rsquo; defense team,&rdquo; the suit read.<\/p>\n<p>The suit accused the feds of planting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fake-hate-forensics-team-finds-damning-evidence-inside-knot-noose-found-black-employees-desk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fake evidence<\/a> in Tarrio&rsquo;s  inbox to more easily convict him of seditious conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, the suit complained about the conditions that the five had faced while locked up.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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