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American far-right activist leader of the Proud Boys
There is no verified, publicly available count of how many members of the Proud Boys currently work as ICE agents; a widely shared purported “leak” that named roughly 4,500 ICE personnel has been seiz...
Available reporting shows Enrique Tarrio’s name appears on a widely circulated leaked ICE database and on the ICE List site, but Tarrio has publicly denied being an ICE employee and multiple fact-chec...
Federal prosecutors charged 18 people in connection with the Jan. 6 attack with the rarely used Civil War–era count of seditious conspiracy; according to reporting aggregated in these sources, 14 of t...
Donald Trump’s most controversial pardons clustered around three themes: clemency for January 6 defendants and allies who sought to overturn the 2020 election; pardons for political allies, donors, an...
Proud Boys members have been tied to a wide range of violent incidents, civil judgments and criminal convictions — most prominently convictions for seditious conspiracy and related crimes for roles in...
At least dozens of Proud Boys members were charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack; multiple senior leaders were tried and convicted of seditious conspiracy and related felonies (including Enrique ...
Fourteen high-profile defendants associated with the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were prosecuted on seditious-conspiracy or closely related insurrection statutes arising from the Jan. 6, 2021, Cap...
Four leaders of the Proud Boys and multiple members of the Oath Keepers were convicted for seditious conspiracy and related felony charges tied to the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach, with convic...
The key claims across recent reporting and official findings identify a mix of political leaders, advisers, far-right organizers, and hundreds of individual rioters as central figures in the January 6...
Definitive proof that a current or former ICE employee is a member of the Proud Boys would come from primary-source personnel or investigative records that explicitly document affiliation — records ag...
Federal prosecutors ultimately brought seditious-conspiracy charges only against a small subset of Jan. 6 defendants — concentrated in two organized groups — and courts adjudicated those cases through...
Donald Trump issued a sweeping clemency on January 20, 2025 that pardoned or commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 people charged or convicted in the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack, and that action ...
is not now employed by . Multiple fact-checks and a spokesperson have stated ICE has never employed Tarrio, even though his name appeared on an online compilation tied to a purported DHS leak . The ep...
President Trump issued a sweeping clemency on January 20, 2025 that pardoned or commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500–1,600 people charged in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a move h...
Claims that Proud Boys figures are embedded in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surged after an alleged Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data leak, but multiple independent fact-checks s...
The weight of contemporary reporting indicates Enrique (Henry) "Enrique" Tarrio is not an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer: his name appeared in an online watchdog database after a pu...
Available reporting shows a disputed leak that includes names tied to the Proud Boys — most prominently Enrique Tarrio — but major fact-checks and Tarrio’s own denials mean there is no independent, au...
Sentences for leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were, until the January 2025 clemency actions, among the harshest handed down in the sprawling January 6 prosecutions—ranging from double‑d...
Five prominent Proud Boys who were treated in public reporting as leaders or senior organizers in the Jan. 6 prosecutions received multi‑year prison sentences: Enrique “Enrique” Tarrio (22 years), Eth...
The Proud Boys acted as a principal organized force on January 6, 2021, with senior leaders and recruited followers central to many of the violent breaches of the Capitol; multiple trials and Departme...