Proud Boys Lieutenant Sentenced to 17 Years in Jan. 6 Sedition Case (NYTimes)

The penalty for Joseph Biggs is the second longest
so far in more than 1,100 criminal cases stemming
from the Capitol attack.

Joseph Biggs, a onetime lieutenant in the Proud Boys, was sentenced on Thursday to 17 years in prison after his conviction on charges of seditious conspiracy for plotting with a gang of pro-Trump followers to attack the Capitol and disrupt the peaceful
transfer of presidential power on Jan. 6, 2021.

Mr. Biggs’s sentence was one of the stiffest penalties issued so far in more than 1,100 criminal cases stemming from the Capitol attack and among only a handful to have been legally labeled an act of terrorism. It was just over half of the 33 years the
government had requested and just shy of the 18-year term given in May to Stewart Rhodes, the leader of another far-right group, the Oath Keepers militia, who was also found guilty of sedition.

The sentence, handed down by Judge Timothy J. Kelly in Federal District Court in Washington, kicked off a series of hearings scheduled for this week and next at which punishment will be meted out against the former chairman of the Proud Boys, Enrique
Tarrio, and three other members of the group who were convicted of sedition and other serious crimes at a landmark conspiracy trial this spring. One of Mr. Biggs’s co-defendants, Zachary Rehl, is scheduled to be sentenced in front of Judge Kelly on
Thursday afternoon.

The Proud Boys — who had been fighting on the streets since 2017 for a range of far-right causes — became a central focus of the F.B.I.’s investigation into Jan. 6 within days of the Capitol attack.

The rest of the execution here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/us/politics/proud-boys-joseph-biggs-sentenced-jan-6.html

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Na. This too fucking good, not let you dipshits read the whole article.

Biggs cries like a little baby, just like trump’s gonna do on all his 91 indictments…

A GIFT FROM JERRY: Free NYTimes Article:

https://wapo.st/3szCX66

“Biggs said in a tearful statement to the judge that he was not a leader but one of the ‘seduced.’

(Yea, ‘seduced’ like Fox and QAnon and Breitbart News and OANN and Facebook and Twitter
and Newsmax so easily did to you gullible fools).

“I know that I messed up that day, but I’m not a terrorist,” [Waa! Waa!] Biggs said. “My curiosity
got the better of me, and I’ll have to live with that for the rest of my life.” He said he had been
planning for Jan. 6 to be his last outing with the Proud Boys, and that his violent statements were
a way to vent his anger over being injured in combat and learning that a young family member had
been abused. “I used that rhetoric … to cope and to not take violent action,” he said.

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