Feds coming after cash from J6 prisoners
Jazz Shaw 9:21 AM on May 30, 2023
A disturbing report showed up in the Associated Press over the holiday weekend related to the ongoing trials of everyone involved in the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill riot or, in some cases, anyone who was simply in the vicinity. We already knew that the Justice Department has been combing through the private records of people who weren’t even involved and searching Bank of America’s sales records for anyone who made any sort of purchase in the vicinity. There have already been more than 1,000 cases brought forward and they’re hoping to at least double that number in the future. We’ve covered dozens of those cases here where people received ludicrously harsh sentences for what amounted to little more than trespassing. But now, the Justice Department is going even further. They are investigating fundraising sites that have raised money for any J6 suspects and asking judges to impose extra fines to prevent the accused from keeping the money that was raised.
Less than two months after he pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol, Texas resident Daniel Goodwyn appeared on Tucker Carlson’s then-Fox News show and promoted a website where supporters could donate money to Goodwyn and other rioters whom the site called “political prisoners.”
The Justice Department now wants Goodwyn to give up more than $25,000 he raised — a clawback that is part of a growing effort by the government to prevent rioters from being able to personally profit from participating in the attack that shook the foundations of American democracy.
An Associated Press review of court records shows that prosecutors in the more than 1,000 criminal cases from Jan. 6, 2021, are increasingly asking judges to impose fines on top of prison sentences to offset donations from supporters of the Capitol rioters.
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