Proud Boys charged with ‘seditious conspiracy’ related to Capitol riot
by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter |
| June 06, 2022 04:20 PM
The Justice Department announced on Monday that five members of the right-wing Proud Boys group were charged by the Justice Department with “seditious conspiracy” related to their alleged roles in the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021.
The Justice Department says that more than 800 defendants have been arrested related to the Capitol riot, including over 250 defendants charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement officers.
“A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned a superseding indictment today charging five members of the Proud Boys, including the group’s former national chairman, with seditious conspiracy and other charges for their actions before and during the breach of the U.S. Capitol,” the DOJ said Monday. “Their actions disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.”
The DOJ noted that the Proud Boys organization describes itself as a “pro-Western fraternal organization for men who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world; aka Western Chauvinists.” Five of the members were hit with conspiracy charges.
“From in and around December 2020, through in and around January 2021, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the defendants, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, Enrique Tarrio, and Dominic Pezzola, did knowingly conspire, confederate, and agree, with other persons known and unknown to the grand jury, to oppose by force the authority of the Government of the United States and by force to prevent, hinder, and delay the execution of any law of the United States," prosecutors announced in a superseding indictment.
DOJ added, “The purpose of the conspiracy was to oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power by force.”
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