Posted on 05/28/2023 11:11:10 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Less than two months after he pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol, Texas resident Daniel Goodwyn appeared on Tucker Carlson’s then-Fox News show and promoted a website where supporters could donate money to Goodwyn and other rioters whom the site called “political prisoners.”
The Justice Department now wants Goodwyn to give up more than $25,000 he raised — a clawback that is part of a growing effort by the government to prevent rioters from being able to personally profit from participating in the attack that shook the foundations of American democracy.
An Associated Press review of court records shows that prosecutors in the more than 1,000 criminal cases from Jan. 6, 2021, are increasingly asking judges to impose fines on top of prison sentences to offset donations from supporters of the Capitol rioters. […]
Most of the fundraising efforts appear on GiveSendGo, which bills itself as “The #1 Free Christian Fundraising Site” and has become a haven for Jan. 6 defendants barred from using mainstream crowdfunding sites, including GoFundMe, to raise money. The rioters often proclaim their innocence and portray themselves as victims of government oppression, even as they cut deals to plead guilty and cooperate with prosecutors.
Their fundraising success suggests that many people in the United States still view Jan. 6 rioters as patriots and cling to the baseless belief that Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump. The former president himself has fueled that idea, pledging to pardon rioters if he is elected. […]
The government’s push for more fines comes as it reaches a milestone in the largest federal investigation in American history: Just over 500 defendants have been sentenced for Jan. 6 crimes. …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Meanwhile, one of the biggest crimes in American history goes unspoken of and unpunished: The George Floyd Riots of 2020.
Big Brother has plans to use the money it confiscates to give to Black Lives Matter.
Apparently it has a cash flow problem.
The money is lining the pockets of those running the SHAKEDOWN faster than it is coming in.
Not enough for BLM, of course, since it’s merely in the “thousands”.
Oh but it was OK for Kamala to pay bail for rioters and beg people for donations REALLY???
“personally profit”
For crying out loud! They will be bankrupted trying to fight FedZilla. They won’t get to keep a dime of what they raised. It will all go to lawyers to try to keep them out of prison for strolling through the capitol grounds.
The Biden Regime is not the US.
Biden’s goons are a more like a vindictive police state than like plain old greedy bureaucrats...
Good reminder to donate again.
Then the “Justice Department” will go after those in BLM that stole all the money they were given....
Democracy dies with Democrats.
As all tyrants, Democrats are making sure you know there's a double-standard and there's nothing you can do about it.
Their violence is "speech," your speech is "violence."
The US federal government is organized crime.
Thieves and cutthroats. They bleed us dry, but the sheeple keep voting for these gangsters.
The American government has become as bad, or worse, than that of the former Soviet Union.
“A clawback”?
As if Garland and his buddies owned that money in the first place?
Interesting concept
Can judges legally impose (higher) fines based upon the allegation of a prosecutor that the defendants have been given money from some otherwise uninvolved third party?!
And how can the prosecutors know what monies the defendants have received in their bank accounts, and from whom?! That's private!
Regards,
I have heard even less about those riots.
In fact, you are the first person to bring those violent criminal events up for discussion with me since 2016.
I had forgotten about them, but they shouldn’t be forgotten.
They are not political prisoners but they have no rights granted to other Americans who bow down to the government. Not one court has stood up for their rights for a fair trial or against their unreasonable punishments. Now the government wants their money. Our government has become demons in business suits.
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