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Federal Prosecutors' Sentencing Request for Ray Epps Sparks Anger
Western Journal ^ | January 3, 2024 at 9:03am | By Jack Davis

Posted on 01/03/2024 9:31:40 AM PST by Red Badger

Controversy is again swirling around Capitol incursion figure Ray Epps as the Department of Justice calls for him to spend no more than six months in jail and face a $500 fine.

Epps was highly visible in multiple videos from the incursion and was seen urging people to go to the Capitol building.

Because he was not initially charged, speculation ran rampant that Epps was a federal agent whipping up and organizing protesters. He was eventually charged with one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct in September.

American Greatness reporter Julie Kelly noted in a post on X at the time that the charge was far milder than other charges against Jan. 6 defendants.

“This lame single charge tells us everything we need to know about Ray Epps. No obstruction felony? No civil disorder charge? Not even a trespassing on restricted grounds misdemeanor?” she wrote.

Similar thoughts erupted after the government’s sentencing memorandum was issued Tuesday.

In it, prosecutors described Epps’ case as “unique … in the context of January 6 defendants.”

“Although Epps engaged in felonious conduct during the riot on January 6, his case includes a variety of distinctive and compelling mitigating factors,” the memorandum said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: epps; j6; rayepps
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To: Red Badger

Correction: He urged people to go IN to the capital.


21 posted on 01/03/2024 11:50:51 AM PST by NavyShoe
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To: Red Badger

He’s just going undercover to investigate aryan nation activities in whatever prison he’s going to.


22 posted on 01/03/2024 12:14:35 PM PST by fruser1
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To: Red Badger

Epps is a Fed.


23 posted on 01/03/2024 12:36:26 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Red Badger

This wrist slap is just confirmation. He was a provocateur, whether fed or freelancer, and the feds appreciated it. He was trying to get people in trouble.


24 posted on 01/03/2024 3:22:35 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: rlmorel
Out in 14 days. Or more likely, suspended sentence.

More likely they'll build a halfway house just for Ray Epps at a federal prison. Everyone is watching. So they'll make him wear a orange prison jumpsuit. Then he'll get out in 6 months. They'll show him live on CNN.

Ray Epps' cover is blown. So they have to do all of this.

25 posted on 01/07/2024 1:11:30 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

They will make it worth his while.


26 posted on 01/07/2024 5:28:00 AM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: Red Badger

these people are flipping the bird at all of us....


27 posted on 01/07/2024 5:34:09 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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