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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 government secured seditious-conspiracy convictions against leaders of both the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys; several of those defendants received multi‑year prison terms before a blanket cleme...
Prosecutors secured convictions for seditious conspiracy tied to January 6 that focused on leaders and lieutenants of two extremist groups — the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers — and most major report...
Reporting and public records show some high-profile indictments tied to planning, funding or legal support connected to January 6 — most prominently criminal charges against former President Donald Tr...
The Proud Boys were founded in 2016 as a male-only, far-right organization advocating “Western chauvinism” and quickly developed a public record of street violence, clashes with anti-fascist and left-...
The Proud Boys were implicated in the January 6, 2021 US Capitol attack through allegations and prosecutions that federal investigators say show by members and leaders, including actions inside the Ca...