Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six more members of the right-wing Oath Keepers domestic terrorist group were found guilty in the District of Columbia this week for their actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and breach of the U.S. Capitol, which disrupted a joint session of Congress convened to certify the electoral votes…
Officer Also Charged with Obstructing the Investigation – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment on Wednesday charging a former Alabama Department of Corrections officer with excessive use of force and two obstruction offenses. Lieutenant Mohammad Shahid Jenkins used excessive force on two inmates – V.R. and D.H.…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Four more members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia found themselves being declared guilty of seditious conspiracy on Monday by a D.C. jury for their roles in trying to halt the peaceful transfer of power in the United States for the first time, and prevent the rightful winner…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the House Republicans get ready to launch a partisan, political investigation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Department of Justice, many Democrats and liberal commentators also find themselves wondering what in the hell is going on with Attorney General Merrick Garland. When Garland…
Reward for Information About Capitol Hill Pipe Bomber Raised to $500,000 – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the eve of the second anniversary of the violent attack at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a seditious conspiracy and violent insurrection that was clearly an unsuccessful attempt to block the certification of…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States remains in a heightened threat environment, according to a terrorism advisory bulletin issued Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “Lone offenders and small groups motivated by a range of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances continue to pose a persistent and lethal threat,” the advisory…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Finally after a trial that lasted more than two months and three days of jury deliberations, a guilty verdict was returned against Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs of the right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers on Tuesday for leading a seditious conspiracy to keep former President Donald Trump…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some people say you shouldn’t talk about politics at family gatherings on holidays like Thanksgiving, as incendiary as that can be these days. But as power is shifting in the nation’s capital city and the Capitol building, and with juicy political plums to be plucked after Christmas, you…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two Maryland men have been arrested on felony charges for assaulting law enforcement officers during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and for disrupting a joint session of Congress to certify the electoral votes in the presidential election of 2020. Douglas Wyatt, 49, and his…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In another stunning example of how Donald Trump corrupted the presidency for his own personal benefit, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform released documents on Monday showing how at least six foreign countries spent upwards of $750,000 at the Trump Hotel in Washington as a way to…
Staff Report – A Tennessee Trump supporter was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on Thursday for dragging a police officer protecting the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, into an angry pro-Trump crowd that brutally assaulted the officer. Albuquerque Cosper Head, 43, who pleaded guilty in March to assaulting the D.C. Metro…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A former leader of the Proud Boys pleaded guilty this week to seditious conspiracy for his actions before and during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 while attempting to stop the peaceful transfer of power by disrupting a joint session of Congress convened to certify…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Pennsylvania man nicknamed “JackTheTripper” has been arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges for assaulting a law enforcement officer and other illegal actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, disrupting a joint session of Congress certifying the Electoral College votes showing Democrat Joe Biden…
Staff Report – A New Jersey neo-Nazi Trump supporter who was one of the first insurrectionists to break into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — who testified under oath that he didn’t know Congress met there — was sentenced this week to four years in federal prison, according to a press release from…
Staff Report – The Federal Bureau of Investigation Tampa Field Office and the Washington, D.C. Field Office have doubled the reward being offered for Jonathan Daniel Pollock, 23, of Lakeland, Florida. A reward of up to $30,000 is available in exchange for information leading to his arrest and conviction, according to a press release from…
By Glynn Wilson – “Sloppy” Steve Bannon was perp walked in handcuffs in front of the press into state court in New York on Thursday and charged with money laundering, fraud and conspiracy for his role in defrauding donors of millions of dollars in a fake online fund raising scheme to allegedly build a wall…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — Is it past time to put aside this false notion that the legal system, the Department of Justice and the courts in the United States are above politics? In unprecedented breaking news announced by a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump, she announced…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A retired New York cop was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison this week for assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It’s the longest sentence given to any Capitol riot subject to date. Thomas Webster,…
Staff Report – As the legal and financial heat continue to rain down on Mark Zuckerberg at Meta-Facebook, the tech giant has caved at the last minute and agreed to settle a massive lawsuit seeking billions in damages for allowing Cambridge Analytica to access the private data of tens of millions of users, data used…
By Andrew Perez, The Lever – Andy Kroll and Justin Elliott, ProPublica.org – An elderly, ultra-secretive Chicago businessman has given the largest known donation to a political advocacy group in U.S. history — worth $1.6 billion — and the recipient is one of the prime architects of conservatives’ efforts to reshape the American judicial system,…
