Lawsuit Filed for Records on Jan. 6 Provocateur Ray Epps

Headline USA ^ | 06/29/2026

[thegagline]

During the Biden years, Kash Patel accused Jan. 6 provocateur Ray Epps of being a federal asset. Referring to the fact that Epps was taken off the FBI’s Most Wanted list in early 2021, Patel said there was only two ways someone could get off that list—either they died or they’re working for the government.

Now that he’s FBI director, Patel has gone silent on Epps. But a New Jersey investigative journalist is trying to force disclosure with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed Friday in federal court.

Miller filed his lawsuit after the FBI denied him those records on privacy grounds. Miller urged a judge to force the FBI to produce the documents on Epps.

“The public interest in understanding whether the FBI maintained a confidential informant or undercover relationship with Ray Epps, the circumstances of his disparate treatment relative to other January 6 participants, and the FBI’s internal communications and directives relating to his removal from the wanted list substantially outweighs any privacy interest Ray Epps may assert,” his lawsuit says.

“The current FBI Director’s own public statements confirm the significance of this public interest.”

According to FBI records, agents had “photographic/and or video evidence that James Ray Epps conspired to and/or recruited others to storm the United States Capitol Building.”

In his lawsuit, the journalist, Yehuda Miller, said he filed a request in April 2025 for all communications and directivesrelating to the removal of Epps from the FBI’s wanted list, as well as all communications between the FBI and Epps from Jan. 1, 2020, through Jan. 1, 2025.

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KEYWORDS: coopted; coverup; deepstate; oldbossnewboss; patel

[thegagline]

Administrations change, rhetoric shifts, but the deep state endures.

[RandFan]

I dont know what happens when they get to DC but it transforms many

I put it down to blackmail or just being part of the club.

[RandFan]

Co -opted is also a good word

[Big Red Badger]

We Should be able to see What Ray Epps was wanted for.
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Ten Most Wanted by the FBI.

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RAY EPPS

[PGR88]

Epps’ work on January 6 for FBI wasn’t his first time playing spook and FBI tool

Patel won’t release info about the relationship because Epps was probably involved in a lot more than just January 6

[Pontiac]

Tucker Carlson talks about Epps videos.

With this evidence of Epps urging people to enter the Capitol he should have been the first Jan. 6er indicted.

[bigbob]

Exposing Epps would probably expose other things Kash doesn’t want exposed at this time. But FReepers always jump to conclusions.

[Round Earther]

Was Epps excluded from the list of pardons?

[No name given]

Yep.

[Paal Gulli]

How long can it be before Epps gets Arkansided?

[Chewbarkah]

Epps playing spook and tool seems likely, but perhaps not for the FBI. Wouldn’t the FBI have known he was theirs before including him on its Most Wanted list, only to quickly purge him from it, and give him special treatment?

The removal suggests that a different organization saw the listing and had a fit. Who had the clout to order the FBI to purge Epps from their MW list and whitewash his role? CIA? Someone at the National Security element of DoJ?

Let’s hope this FOIA request opens a fine can of worms.

[oil_dude]

EXTREMELY disappointed in Patel

[Rockingham]

As a confidential informant or asset, Epps is almost certainly protected by a confidentiality agreement with the federal government. Even as FBI Director, Kash Patel cannot violate that agreement without suffering serious consequences for himself and incurring money damages liability to Epps from the federal government.

[Libloather]

Investigate the fistbump.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4197666/posts

[Sicon]

Referring to the fact that Epps was taken off the FBI’s Most Wanted list in early 2021, Patel said there was only two ways someone could get off that list—either they died or they’re working for the government.
Now that he’s FBI director, Patel has gone silent on Epps.

Things that make you say, "WTF?!"

[thegagline]

Qualified Immunity.

[thegagline]

EXTREMELY disappointed in Patel

As am I. However, the buck doesn’t stop with Patel.

[JohnnyP]

Did Trump mention Epps before he was reelected?

[Tell It Right]

As a confidential informant or asset, Epps is almost certainly protected by a confidentiality agreement with the federal government. Even as FBI Director, Kash Patel cannot violate that agreement without suffering serious consequences for himself and incurring money damages liability to Epps from the federal government.

Exactly what I think.

[Big Red Badger]

IIRC,
EPPS was put On the
Most Wanted List for the
January 6th “False Flag”.
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The Deep State is being
Peeled like an Onion.