Attendees of Confederate Woodstock dismayed that actions have consequences

Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Jan 8, 2021.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Rounded up another insurrectionist idiot. And, of course, he is from Florida -- like so many others. Like so many other things in Florida, it is a family affair.

    Bradenton man stormed the Capitol with his parents on Jan. 6, DOJ says
    https://www.wfla.com/news/local-new...e-capitol-with-his-parents-on-jan-6-doj-says/

    TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Bradenton man was arrested Wednesday in connection to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

    A release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) stated John Schubert, III, 47, was accused of helping his parents break into the Capitol building and allegedly assaulting a police officer.


    Schubert’s parents, Amy Schubert and John Schubert Jr., pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct in 2021. The Illinois couple was sentenced to 18 months of probation, $500 in restitution and 100 hours of community service, on top of a fine, according to a report from Nexstar’s WGN.

    An anonymous tip pointed federal investigators to the Schuberts. A search of Amy Schubert’s Google account revealed photos taken by the couple inside the Capitol and location data showing they were there the time of the unrest.

    At the time of their arrest, John Schubert, Jr. told the FBI their son was there with them at the Capitol, but did not identify him by name. Agents travelled to Bradenton to interview the younger Schubert, but he “declined to provide information about his activities” on Jan. 6, according to court documents.

    Schubert was arrested over two years later after agents identified him as a man who appeared in several photos on Amy Schubert’s Google account. He was also captured by security cameras “at various locations” inside the Capitol, according to the DOJ.

    Before he entered the Capitol, prosecutors allege Schubert “pushed the police barriers and appeared to be encouraging other rioters to breach the police barricades.” He was accused of pushing one officer and “throwing a punch” at another, according to the DOJ.

    Security camera footage obtained by the FBI showed Schubert climb through a broken window at 2:21 p.m., illegally entering the Capitol. Once inside, he helped his parents in behind him, court documents state.

    Schubert was allegedly caught on camera entering the Rotunda and Statuary Hall before reaching the Upper House Door area. According to the DOJ, Schubert left the Capitol just before 3 p.m.

    Schubert was charged with felony offenses of civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers. He was also slapped with several misdemeanor charges including the following offenses:
    • Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority
    • Disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds
    • Engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds
    • Disorderly conduct in a Capitol building
    • Act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings
    • Parading, demonstrating, or picketing in any of the Capitol buildings.
    Schubert is expected to make his first court appearance in the Middle District of Florida.
     
    #511     Oct 5, 2023
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  2. gwb-trading

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    Hey, anyone see Conan?

    Jan 6 rioter dubbed ‘Conan O’Riot’ is finally tracked down and arrested
    https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/jan-6-rioter-dubbed-conan-132831621.html

    An alleged January 6 rioter dubbed 'Conan O'Riot' due to his resemblance to former late-night talk show host Conan O’Brien has been arrested.

    Derek Nelson, 30, who was an active-duty US Marine from October 2011 to September 2015, was tracked down and arrested by the FBI on Wednesday in Illinois, according to federal court records.

    He faces four misdemeanour charges in connection with the US Capitol attack, along with his co-defendant Derek Dodder.

    The 30-year-old was dubbed #ConanORiot for his red hair, with online “Sedition Hunters“ using the hashtag to track his movements at the Capitol.

    Mr Nelson was near the front lines at the Capitol on January 6 as a pro-Trump mob chased down outnumbered officers on the west side of the building, according to the FBI.

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    The 30-year-old was seen at the Capitol wearing colonial attire, including “a brown tricorn hat along with a blue double-breasted button coat and red or maroon undershirt with a white scarf around his neck,” the FBI said.

    He was seen in video footage cited by the FBI telling a videographer he had gathered at the Washington Monument where President Trump was due to speak, to “start a revolution”.

    Mr Nelson was allegedly recorded on video inside the capitol wearing goggles and a respirator mask. The FBI said the video also shows him running away after another rioter set off a fire extinguisher near the doors to the House of Representatives, which were barricaded as members fled the violent mob.

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    Mr Nelson was ordered by a judge on Wednesday not to travel outside the US without court approval and banned from possessing a firearm, destructive device, or other weapon.

    He is due to make a virtual appearance before a federal judge in Washington DC on 17 October.

    On his podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” the comedian said January 6 was an upsetting day “for any sentient American“.

    In a podcast last month, he said the biggest crime former president Trump, who has been indicted four times this year, has committed is his impact on comedy.

    “I’m really going out on a limb here saying — that’s his greatest crime,” O’Brien joked. “I think he’s hurt political comedy by being so outlandish himself. I think the Jan. 6 thing is a blip compared to how much he’s hurt comedy.”

    More than 1,000 people have been charged by federal prosecutors in connection with the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
     
    #512     Oct 8, 2023
  3. gwb-trading

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    #513     Oct 17, 2023
  4. Mercor

    Mercor

    Insane
    Wait until Republicans control the DOJ
    You will see many college professors and their students getting 8 years
     
    #514     Oct 17, 2023
  5. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Based on what crime?
     
    #515     Oct 17, 2023
  6. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Loser Gets Locked Up. An insurrectionist can't even place in the top 3 in the GOP Michigan primary. What a loser! Well time for federal prison, loser.

    Ex-GOP governor hopeful Ryan Kelley gets two months in prison for Jan. 6 involvement
    https://www.freep.com/story/news/po...-candidate-ryan-kelley-sentenced/71213557007/

    Ryan Kelley, who sought the Republican nod in Michigan's gubernatorial primary last year, was sentenced to 60 days in federal prison by a judge in Washington, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Kelley pleaded guilty earlier this year to a federal misdemeanor charge for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol, when supporters of former President Donald Trump attempted to prevent the certification of the 2020 presidential election.

    In addition to the 60-day prison stint, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper also levied a $5,000 fine against Kelley, per the Associated Press. Kelley, a real estate agent and conservative activist, finished fourth in the Republican primary in the Michigan gubernatorial race last year, losing out to eventual nominee Tudor Dixon.

    The government had previously levied four misdemeanor charges against Kelley, which he initially pleaded not guilty to. But he avoided a trial after pleading guilty in July to a single charge of entering or remaining in restricted grounds without lawful authority. That charge, also a misdemeanor, carried a maximum sentence of up to a year in prison.

    Federal prosecutors initially argued that Kelley should get three months in prison for the charge, describing the Jan. 6 riots as an assault on the democratic process and noting that Kelley failed to show remorse for his actions. In their pre-sentencing memorandum, prosecutors pointed to past posts on social media from Kelley where he wrote he was “doing the right thing” being at the Capitol that day.

    “... (T)he January 6 riot was a violent attack that threatened the lives of legislators and their staff, interrupted the certification of the 2020 Electoral College vote count, did irrevocable harm to our nation’s tradition of the peaceful transfer of power, caused more than $2.9 million in losses, and injured more than one hundred police officers. Every rioter, whether or not they personally engaged in violence or personally threatened violence, contributed to this harm,” prosecutors wrote.

    Gary Springstead, Kelley's attorney, wrote that he should avoid prison time altogether, particularly since there was no evidence that he entered the Capitol building during the riots. Springstead also noted that Kelley, 42, has six children.

    “Ignoring that Mr. Kelley did not engage in violence on January 6, 2021 would fail to take into account a critical fact that Mr. Kelley’s refusal to engage in violence distinguishes him from those who had neither the sense nor the will to refrain from doing so,” Springstead wrote.

    During his sentencing, Kelley again noted he was in Washington to see Trump speak, but said "my actions were my actions," according to the Associated Press. On Jan. 6, 2021, supporters of Trump stormed the Capitol in an attempt to prevent Congress from certifying Biden’s electoral victory. The vote was eventually certified, and in the years since the riot, more than 1,000 individuals have been criminally charged for their participation in the siege, according to the Department of Justice. Kelley is one of approximately 935 individuals to have been charged with entering or remaining in restricted grounds, the DOJ says.
     
    #516     Oct 18, 2023
  7. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Good Riddance. This is the very definition of "stupid bitch".

    Jan. 6 rioter who stormed Pelosi’s office ordered to pay $50K for defamation of Rutgers student
    New Jersey man who tipped authorities to rioter’s identity said she lied about him in retaliation
    https://newjerseymonitor.com/2023/1...to-pay-50k-for-defamation-of-rutgers-student/

    Twelve days after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a failed bid to overturn the 2020 presidential election, police arrested Riley June Williams for several federal crimes.

    It wasn’t hard to identify her — cameras clearly caught the young Harrisburg woman in the rampaging throngs, and she outed herself on social media as the thief of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop.

    But Williams tried to dodge accountability by publicly trashing the ex-boyfriend who tipped investigators to her identity — and for that, a New Jersey judge this week ordered her to pay ex-beau Michael Prodanov $50,000 in damages for defamation.

    Superior Court Judge Douglas H. Hurd also ordered Williams’ friend Cyrus Sanders, who repeated her claims on Facebook, to pay $50,000 in damages for defamation, too. Neither Williams nor Sanders responded to Prodanov’s defamation lawsuit, and Hurd filed his default judgment on Monday.

    Lori Ulrich is the federal public defender who represented Williams in her Capitol case. Ulrich told the New Jersey Monitor Friday that she found Hurd’s judgment “very troubling,” given that Williams had no attorney in the defamation case and could not defend herself. Williams was sentenced in March to three years in federal prison for six crimes.

    “They exploited that fact that she was not represented and the fact that she’s in prison,” Ulrich said. “She was not able to defend herself in that.”

    Federal prosecutors had accused Williams of trying to evade capture by fleeing her home, deleting her social media accounts, and changing her phone number after the riot.

    But she said she did so to hide from Prodanov, telling authorities he was an abusive stalker against whom she’d secured a temporary order of protection from abuse. Sanders also misidentified Prodanov as Russian, suggesting he was a spy, according to Prodanov’s lawsuit. He is an American-born citizen of Bulgarian ethnicity, the complaint says.

    Several media outlets, including the Britain-based Daily Mail and far-right international newspaper The Epoch Times, published Williams’ and Sanders’ claims.

    But Prodanov’s attorney, Christopher J. D’Alessandro, called those claims “false” and said Williams sought the protective order only after she learned authorities were seeking her.

    She lied to “deflect liability … under the pretext of victimhood” and “exact vengeance” on her ex after he alerted authorities to Williams’ identity and informed them she planned to give Pelosi’s laptop to a Russian citizen, D’Alessandro said.

    “He fulfilled his duties as a responsible citizen, and he paid the price of getting a (protection order) filed against him, which was then utilized to justify someone’s flight from the FBI,” he said.

    Ulrich denied that Williams lied about her relationship with Prodanov, saying: “we disagree with that.”

    Prodanov, a Rutgers University student, feels vindicated by the verdict but disappointed the false claims remain findable online, D’Alessandro added.

    “He’s a young man who’s in college and he’s got a whole life ahead of him, but now he has to live with this burden of having these comments out there for the rest of his life,” he said.
     
    #517     Oct 23, 2023
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    #518     Oct 29, 2023
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    #519     Oct 31, 2023
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    It's long overdue they started locking up Trump administration officials.

    Former Trump State Department appointee sentenced to 70 months in prison after assaulting police officers at US Capitol
    https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/poli...e-department-january-6-us-capitol?cid=ios_app

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    A former appointee of Donald Trump was sentenced Friday to 70 months in prison for his violent role on January 6, 2021.

    Federico Klein, a former State Department appointee, was found guilty following a bench trial before Judge Trevor McFadden this summer of multiple counts, including assaulting multiple police officers that day.

    “Your actions on January 6 were shocking and egregious,” McFadden, also a Trump appointee, said during Friday’s sentencing.

    According to the judge, Klein assaulted an officer during an initial breach on the Capitol grounds, telling the officer “you can’t stop us.”

    McFadden also detailed several other assaults on officers from Klein, many of which occurred in the lower west terrace tunnel, one of the most violent scenes that day.

    “This is a government of law, not of men,” McFadden said, adding that Klein had “betrayed your office.”

    During Friday’s sentencing, former US Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell told the court that Klein had attacked him multiple times with a police riot shield.

    Gonell questioned how “someone who took the same oath as I did” to protect the Constitution, could be involved in such an assault on the Capitol.

    Prosecutors also noted Klein – an ex-US Marine – had access to sensitive information with a security clearance at the State Department and suggested that in attacking the Capitol to keep Trump as President, Klein could have also been trying to keep his job as a political appointee.

    Investigators found several images of Klein in the riot allegedly using a police riot shield to wedge open an entrance for rioters and fighting against a police line for several minutes, according to his arrest affidavit. Klein wore a red “Make America Great Again” hat then changed into a “United States Marine Corps” hat during the riot, investigators say.

    Stanley Woodward, Klein’s attorney, said in court that Klein had not planned to attack the Capitol that day, adding that “no one person caused January 6.”

    Woodward, who also represents Trump’s co-defendant Walt Nauta in the classified documents case in Florida, noted Klein had worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign.

    Klein’s actions on January 6, Woodward said, were “not a betrayal” of his service in the military and the State Department, but was part of attending “a protest turned wrong.”
     
    #520     Nov 3, 2023
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