Posted on 07/23/2021 12:04:04 PM PDT by RandFan
He corroborates accounts from other detainees, including reports of abuse by prison guards, inedible food, and zero access to the outdoors, religious services, or physical activity.
Joe Biden’s Justice Department notched another victory last week in the agency’s sprawling investigation into the January 6 protest on Capitol Hill against Biden’s presidency.
On Wednesday, Michael Curzio pleaded guilty to one count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in the Capitol building. The government offered the plea deal to Curzio’s court-appointed attorney in June; Curzio faced four misdemeanor charges, including trespassing and disorderly conduct, for his role in the Capitol breach.
Curzio will pay the government “restitution” in the amount of $500 to help pay for the nearly $1.5 million in damages the building reportedly sustained. (The Architect of the Capitol initially said the protest caused $30 million in damages but prosecutors have set the figure far lower.)
The misdemeanor to which Curzio pleaded guilty carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail. But Curzio isn’t headed to jail any time soon. To the contrary, Curzio actually left jail on July 14.
Because he had already served six months in prison.
Curzio is one of nearly 100 defendants kept behind bars for months under pre-trial detention orders sought by federal prosecutors. (Not all have been housed in the D.C. jail.) In several instances, the defendants, like Curzio, aren’t accused of committing a violent crime.
But the Justice Department, with the consent of federal judges in Washington, D.C., repeatedly seeks to punish Americans for protesting the election of Biden by keeping them in jail awaiting trials that won’t begin until next year or until they accept a plea deal.
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$1.5 million in damages?
Pisses me off no end.
Hank Goober mouth Johnson should be in solitary confinement himself!
You’re on your own, bud. No one is going to help you. America turtled up in 2020 after we surpassed the “lockdown for two weeks” mandate without a fight. God can reboot the planet at any time.
Hmmm…thinking I remember something about an 8th Amendment that doesn’t line up with the current reality in DC. Must have just a pipe dream…
A toilet seat costs $500 in the US government
6 months in the DC Gulag for “parading, demonstrating, or picketing in the Capitol building”. How very Soviet. We all thought “deplorable” was a funny thing, but now there’s another D-word we are called. When I was younger, political dissidents were always associated with brutal totalitarian regimes and tinpot dictators. Now I’m a dissident?
A million of that was for the pain and suffering by AOC and Nancy Pelosi’s desk.
Nadler probably busts two of those in a week.
Pretty much at this point. 🙁
Will the young unarmed lady who was shot dead get her life back?
“Now I’m a dissident?”
Yes.
And our FReeper user names are on their list.
Hey, with COVID, the price of glass has shot way up!
The TX (D) shirkers are doing more to obstruct government business than any of these “insurrectionists” of Jan 6 fame.
Free these political prisoners.
Just for reference, the capital police and metro police have a process for arresting people on these charges if you are from a preferred group. They arrest, issue a $50 ticket and release in under 2 hours.
Stolen Election Political Prisoner Ryan Samsel was awakened, had his hands zipped tied, and then was beaten to a pulp. He lost vision in one eye among other injuries.
It’s $30 million in damages. The money will be paid to Hunter Biden’s construction company (with half going to THE BIG GUY).
If they both soiled themselves, I’d say it was money well spent. By government standards, anyway.
Political dissidents are always repressed by brutal totalitarian regimes and tinpot dictators.
Now we are dissidents...
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