Posted on 04/08/2022 12:43:22 PM PDT by Coronal
The president of a North Carolina chapter of the far-right group the Proud Boys entered a plea agreement Friday with prosecutors investigating the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Charles Donohoe, 34, who has close ties to Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and assaulting and impeding police officers. The maximum charges are 20 years for conspiracy and eight years for the assaulting and impeding police charge, although he's expected to receive a lighter sentence for pleading guilty and cooperating with prosecutors.
As part of the plea agreement, Donohoe admitted that, "At least as early as January 4, 2021, and before he decided to travel to Washington, D.C., Donohoe was aware that members of MOSD leadership were discussing the possibility of storming the Capitol...Donohoe understood that storming the Capitol would be illegal."
Tarrio, Donohoe and other Proud Boys allegedly established what they called a "Ministry of Self Defense" (MOSD) organization, with Tarrio at the top of the power structure. "This group was to form the nucleus of leadership in a new chapter of the Proud Boys organization, which Tarrio described as a 'national rally planning' chapter. The first event targeted by the group was the rally in D.C. on January 6," prosecutors wrote in court filings.
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Hmmmm… just when not guilty verdicts and hung juries are being produced.
The article is not clear, but ‘conspiracy’ is a vague term. It sounds like the government is dropping charges related to an overthrow of the government and focusing on a conspiracy related more to the actual breach. Can anyone clarify?
This is so they can call it a planned “insurrection”
He’s probably a FED made to not look like one with a wink wink sentence:-)
It sounds like they were a breakaway sect of Proud Boys, the Ministry Of Self Defense (MOSD).
It is not fair to blame the Proud Boys any more than it is fair to blame the Congressional Black Caucasians for BLM riots.
Quite the ‘slight of hand’ isn’t it? My thoughts too.
I also get tired of the ‘far right’ labeling. Do the PB describe themselves as ‘far right’? No...but the media always labels them such. I suppose if somebody is quite centrist but you are the one that is an extreme lefty then everyone else looks ‘far right’.
Seeing ‘far right’ is usually a cue to stop reading.
I wonder if "See BS" has ever used "far-left" as a descriptive for anyone? Language is a weapon that the enemedia and the LEFT use without compunction or care!
just when not guilty verdicts and hung juries are being produced.
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Gets a conviction in the record and undermines the defense of the others, i.e., we new what we were doing was illegal and premeditated.
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