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American far-right activist leader of the Proud Boys
There is no publicly verified count of how many officers are members of the or other white nationalist organizations; reporting documents allegations, a large leaked roster, and intense political and ...
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...
There is no verified, publicly available evidence that members—including former national leader —are employed as agents; and multiple fact-checks say Tarrio was never hired by ICE . At the same time, ...
went from a highly visible, violent street‑movement to a fractured, legally embattled organization: many leaders and members were arrested and convicted for their roles in the , 2021, attack on the Ca...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The widely reported leak of a roster called “” allegedly identifying thousands of has prompted some but, so far, only a small number have examined specific names; the most concrete debunking identifie...
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...
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 ...
The simple answer: reporting does not support a definitive claim that members are formally employed en masse by ; high-profile claims that former Proud Boys leader is an ICE agent have been refuted by...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...