https://www.npr.org/2021/06/23/1009597270/first-guilty-plea-january-6-oath-keepers-conspiracy-case Federal prosecutors secured their first guilty plea Wednesday in the Justice Department's sprawling conspiracy case involving the Oath Keepers extremist group in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
At a hearing in federal court in Washington, D.C., Graydon Young pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of obstruction of an official proceeding. The 55-year-old Florida resident agreed to cooperate with investigators, which could prove critical as the government pursues the remaining defendants in the high-profile case.
Young is one of 16 people associated with the Oath Keepers to be charged with conspiracy, obstruction and other offenses over the Capitol riot. Prosecutors say the defendants coordinated their efforts and actions to try to disrupt Congress' certification of the Electoral College count on Jan. 6.
More than 500 people have been charged so far in connection with the Capitol breach, but the Oath Keepers conspiracy case is one of the most closely watched because of the allegations and the link to an extremist organization.
Young is the second defendant linked to the Oath Keepers to plead guilty. Jon Schaffer pleaded guilty to obstructing an official proceeding and entering restricted grounds with a dangerous weapon in April.
According to Young's statement of offense, he coordinated with his co-conspirators ahead of Jan. 6 and used encrypted messaging apps to maintain "operational security."
On the day itself, the document says, Young and some of his co-conspirators pushed through U.S. Capitol Police lines guarding the Capitol and into the building.
"Mr. Young believed that he and the co-conspirators were trying to obstruct, influence, and impede an official proceeding, that is, a proceeding before Congress, specifically, Congress's certification of the Electoral College vote," the document says.
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At Wednesday's hearing, Judge Amit Mehta read that passage to Young to ensure that it was accurate. "Yes, sir," Young replied, "that is correct." According to the plea deal, Young has agreed to cooperate fully with prosecutors, including sitting for interviews with investigators and testifying before the grand jury and at trial. The government, meanwhile, has agreed to dismiss the remaining charges against him. Even so, Mehta said Young is facing a possible prison sentence of 5 to 6 1/2 years under the sentencing guidelines. Wednesday brought another significant development in the Capitol investigation. Anna Morgan-Lloyd, a 49-year-old from Indiana who described Jan. 6 as the "best day ever," became the first Capitol riot defendant to be sentenced. Morgan-Lloyd was not accused of taking part in any of the violence at the Capitol. She pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of "parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building." Republican Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced her to just three years of probation and no jail time.
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Where were you the day Graydon Young pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to uphold his oath to the Constitution
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>>876640 >Where were you the day Graydon Young pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to break his oath to the Constitution Fixed.
Mors ad proditores
not a traitor
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dirty traitors. traitoring all the time
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>Traitor pleads guilty Nice.
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I bet they tortured him and his family until he signed a confession. You know how American "justice" works.
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>>876800 >things didnt work out the way I want >THIS MUST MEAN WITNESS TAMPERING AND FALSE CONFESSIONS ARE AT WORK! what a fucking coward. How's it feel to be such a piece of human shit you can't even handle something like this without a heaping dose of COPE.
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>>876800 So he got a taste of his own medicine.
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>>876636 >Schaffer pleaded guilty to obstructing an official proceeding and entering restricted grounds >entering >obstructing wow, the violence and depravity of white supremacist domestic terror knows no limits.
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>>877385 Forgot him pleading guilty to conspiracy bub.
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>>877500 Not him, but conspiracy to enter a building and disrupt official proceedings is like what people in the civil rights movement got charged with
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>>877506 >Is like You'll have to point out when MLK was involved in a violent coup to stop the peaceful transfer of power like Trump was.
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>>876636 One down, 70 million more to go.
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>>879188 Your retarded.
The only thing he would have to show is that people were charged with conspiracy to enter a building and disrupt official proceedings.
I'm not a civil rights history expert, but I would presume that happened somewhere during the course of it
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>>879201 >I'm not a civil rights history expert, but I would presume that happened somewhere during the course of it That isn't the argument. The argument is that being charged with conspiracy while advocating for civil rights isn't morally equivalent to being charged with conspiracy for trying to overturn a democratic election and install a dictator.
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>>879209 I'm sorry you don't consider an election process free of fraud to be a civil right
I guess we'll just agree to disagree on that
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>>879210 >I'm sorry you don't consider an election process free of fraud to be a civil right Well the issue here is that you don't get to make up fake fraud just because you don't like the results of the election.
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>>879211 Yeah I agree.
It was dumb of them to riot because of orange man.
But the changes to voting law and securing the integrity of the voting process is worth rioting over.
You don't need evidence to be upset at how if there were widespread voting fraud, the current system is set up to be blind to it... It makes the mantra of "no evidence of widespread fraud" self fulfilling
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>>879201 You'll have to point out when MLK was involved in a violent coup to stop the peaceful transfer of power like Trump was.
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>>879211 >>879213 Creditable proof of wide spread voter fraud more than the Republican voter suppression laws?
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>>879213 >But the changes to voting law and securing the integrity of the voting process is worth rioting over. Rioting over problems that you have no evidence exist seems very, very dumb to me.
>You don't need evidence to be upset at how if there were widespread voting fraud, the current system is set up to be blind to it... I'm hoping you take a moment to read what you just said and contemplate if it made any kind of sense. What you're saying is that you don't need evidence of fraud happening to riot about fraud happening because if fraud DID happen there would be no evidence of fraud happening for some reason. Does this honestly seem like a logical thought process to you?
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>>879215 You know, no matter how much you deny your crimes, the people know that you're a crook. The people know that your system is rigged against them. You can only fool yourself.
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>>879221 What the fuck are you talking about?
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>>879223 He's just gas lighting because there's no creditable proof for wide spread voter fraud and Trump only set up The Big Lie to as an excuse for why he lost the election.
There's also the fact that multiple people who have spread The Big Lie are now being sued for defamation.
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>>879223 I'm saying that no matter how much you deny your crimes, the people know that you're a crook. The people know that your system is rigged against them. You can only fool yourself.
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>>879230 You're being palm reader levels of vague right now. I have no clue what point you're trying to make.
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>>879229 >My harassment against regime critics is proof that the regime's claims to power are legitimate. Anonymous
>>879232 >The point is that no matter how much you deny your crimes, the people know that you're a crook. The people know that your system is rigged against them. You can only fool yourself. Anonymous
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>>879233 >Being a coup terrorist means I'm right! Anonymous
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>>879233 I have a legitimate question - does it never bother you that you aren't able to be specific about any of your beliefs? Do you not notice that every time you engage on these issues its just broad, nebulous accusations with no detail to it whatsoever?
I'll give you an example - if a child was given a book report on a piece of literature like, I don't know, "The man and the sea" and he got up and said "Well, the man didn't like the system because the system was rigged and the fish was like, the system, and the man was fighting corruption because stuff in the system wasn't fair" would you say the boy gave a coherent, thoughtful review of the book? Would you say he displayed any critical thinking skills at all?
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>>879234 I think this NPC is broken, guys.
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>>879238 We don't use /pol/ forced memes on /news/. Bad karma because they're Russian made.