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Fox News
3 days ago
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- Fox News
Former DC cop who lied about leaking info to Proud Boys leader gets prison time
A former D.C. police officer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after being convicted on one count of obstructing justice and three counts of making false statements. Shane Lamond, who was the supervisor of the Intelligence Branch of the Metropolitan Police Department's Homeland Security Bureau, leaked sensitive information to then-national chairman of the Proud Boys, Henry "Enrique" Tarrio. Tarrio attended Lamond's sentencing and held a news conference afterward, calling on President Donald Trump to pardon the former officer. "I ask that the Justice Department and the President of the United States step in and correct the injustice that I just witnessed inside this courtroom," Tarrio said, according to reports. Lamond was convicted in December 2024 for tipping off Tarrio about his own department's investigation into the destruction of a "Black Lives Matter" (BLM) banner. "As proven at trial, Lamond turned his job on its head—providing confidential information to a source, rather than getting information from him—lied about the conduct, and obstructed an investigation into the source," U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves said after Lamond's conviction. "The intelligence gathering role that Lamond was supposed to play is critical to keeping our community safe. His violation of the trust placed in him put our community more at risk and cannot be ignored." According to a Dec. 2024 press release from the Justice Department, Lamond and Tarrio were regularly in contact regarding "planned" Proud Boys activities in D.C. starting in July 2019. This did not change after Lamond's department began an investigation into the Dec. 12, 2020, destruction of a BLM banner. Despite the fact that Tarrio was considered the "prime subject" of the investigation, Lamond gave the then-Proud Boys leader "confidential law enforcement information." The Justice Department says that Tarrio passed the information to other members of the Proud Boys. Weeks later, on Jan. 4, 2021 — just two days before the infamous Jan. 6 Capitol riot — Lamond sent Tarrio a message that was "set to self destruct" informing the Proud Boys leader that there was a warrant for his arrest. Tarrio, who was traveling from Florida to D.C. when he received the message, was arrested and pleaded guilty. In D.C., the maximum penalty for obstruction of justice is 30 years in prison, while false statement charges carry a maximum of five years.
BBC News
3 days ago
- Politics
- BBC News
Proud Boys sue US government for $100m over Jan 6 prosecutions
Five leaders of far-right group the Proud Boys, who were convicted in connection to the 6 January, 2021 Capitol riot, have sued the US government for $100 million (£74m), claiming that their rights were violated during their five were convicted of plotting and taking part in the riot to overturn President Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 election. Trump pardoned or commuted their sentences earlier this lawsuit, filed in Florida on Friday, claims FBI agents and prosecutors were motivated by personal biases when prosecuting their cases. They argue their constitutional rights were trampled on "to punish and oppress political allies" of Trump. The lawsuit was filed by Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola. Tarrio was found guilty of plotting the 2021 attack on the US Capitol, which happened as lawmakers were certifying former President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison, the longest out of the was formally convicted of seditious conspiracy, a rarely used charge of planning to overthrow the government, and multiple other other four leaders faced similar charges, and were also sentenced to time behind convictions were overturned by Trump, who issued approximately 1,500 pardons of people involved in the Capitol riot in January, on the day of his inauguration. "These people have been destroyed," Trump said after signing their pardons. "What they've done to these people is outrageous. There's rarely been anything like it in the history of our country."The lawsuit filed on Friday alleges the five leaders of the Proud Boys were subject to "egregious and systemic abuse of the legal system". It accuses prosecutors of engaging in instances of "evidence tampering" and "witness intimidation".It also alleges that their prosecution was "corrupt and politically motivated." The lawsuit was filed against the Department of Justice, which is currently operating under the Trump administration and is run by Attorney General Pam BBC has reached out to the Justice Department for to figures released by the department in January, approximately 1,583 defendants have been charged with crimes associated with the Capitol than 600 were charged with assaulting, resisting or obstructing law enforcement, including around 175 charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an Police officers were attacked by rioters with weapons including metal batons, wooden planks, flagpoles, fire extinguishers and pepper lawmakers had condemned the riot, while Trump has described it as a "day of love". His pardons of those convicted have been criticised by Democratic lawmakers as an attempt to re-write history. Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who was among the lawmakers forced to flee during the riot, called the pardons "an outrageous insult to our justice system".
