When it was believed that Ray Epps would only spend six months in jail for his role in the January 6 “insurrection,” patriots were upset. There are people spending decades in jail who didn’t encourage entry into the Capitol Building, which Epps was seen doing in three separate videos.
Unfortunately, he’s not even going to get the six months. In fact, he won’t spend a day in prison while grandmas rot as political prisoners in the DC gulags. He’s getting probation, a fine, and community service. That’s it.
Many have speculated that his sweetheart deal is further indication that he is a “fed,” someone working with or on behalf of the government. It’s known that the Department of Justice and members of the Capitol Police were embedded as “Trump supporters” in the crowds on January 6, 2021. It’s also known that many who were encouraging entry into the Capitol Building were working with the government. Is Ray Epps one of them?
According to Zero Hedge:
Ray Epps Dodges Prison Sentence – Gets Probation, Community Service for Telling J6ers to Go “Into the Capitol”
Ray Epps, the man caught multiple times telling January 6th protesters to escalate their demonstration and go “into the Capitol” on January 6th, 2021, will spend no time in prison for his role that day.
Instead, Epps has been given 12 months probation, $500 in restitution, and 100 hours of community service.
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🚨 #BREAKING: Ray Epps, the man who took credit for “orchestrating” January 6th by encouraging people to raid the Capitol, has been sentenced to 12 MONTHS PROBATION.
He will receive ZERO jail time.
Meanwhile, there are truly peaceful protestors ROTTING in prison simply for… pic.twitter.com/3cd0RdrrD3
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 9, 2024
BREAKING: Ray Epps, the only January 6 protester who actually told people to go into the Capitol, has been officially sentenced to one year probation, $500 restitution, and 100 hours community service.
While many J6 protesters are rotting in jail for non-violent crimes, Epps… pic.twitter.com/qPWwktAPbu
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 9, 2024
Ray Epps, the man who directed people to go into the Capitol and privately claimed credit for orchestrating the Capitol breach, gets one year probation. Nothing to see here! https://t.co/mlUr0mtur2
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 9, 2024
According to Epps’ sentencing memorandum, Epps should have served 6 months in jail.
“Although Epps engaged in felonious conduct during the riot on January 6, his case includes a variety of distinctive and compelling mitigating factors, which led the government to exercise its prosecutorial discretion and offer Epps a pre-indictment misdemeanor plea resolution,” wrote DOJ senior trial counsel Michael Gordon in the sentencing memo.
Epps’ attorney, Edward Ungvarsky, argued that Epps should serve no jail time, and that “right-wing political dramaturges” resulted in Epps being “attacked, defamed, and vilified.”
According to the sentencing memorandum, Gordon asserted that Epps “has been the target of a false and widespread conspiracy theory that he was an undercover government agent on January 6.”
Other mitigating factors included Epps calling the FBI on Jan. 8, 2021 to explain his actions two days prior. Further, Gordon listed his cooperation with both the FBI and the now-defunct House Jan. 6 Select Committee (which lost video evidence of their witness interviews), and what the DOJ describes as his efforts to de-escalate tensions between protesters and the police.
“Epps only acted in furtherance of his own misguided belief in the ‘lie’ that the 2020 presidential election had been ‘stolen,'” reads the memorandum. “However, due to the outrage directed at Epps as a result of that false conspiracy theory, he has been forced to sell his business, move to a different state, and live reclusively.”
As the Epoch Times reports further, Epps’ photo was removed from the FBI’s Jan. 6 most-wanted page without explanation.
On Sept. 18, 2023, prosecutors charged Mr. Epps with one count of disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, a petty misdemeanor with a maximum six-month jail term.
On Sept. 21, 2023, Mr. Epps pleaded guilty to the charge. In mere days, the high-profile case was dispatched, a stark contrast to many Jan. 6 prosecutions that have stretched across nearly three years.
Sentencing in the case had been scheduled for Dec. 20, 2023, but Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg granted a continuance until 10 a.m. Jan. 9 at the federal courthouse in Washington D.C.
In his sentencing memo, Mr. Ungvarsky said Mr. Epps’ intention all along was for peaceful protests at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“Ray Epps understands the serious mistake he made when he joined others to attend the Stop the Steal Rally on January 6, 2021, and to encourage others to walk to the U.S. Capitol to continue to protest,” Mr. Ungvarsky wrote.
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“At all times, Mr. Epps’ intent was that the protest would be peaceful and would be done peacefully,” Mr. Ungvarsky said. “Those were his words on January 5, and that was his intent on January 6.”
Late on Jan. 2, Mr. Ungvarsky filed a motion asking to shield under court seal the identifying information of persons mentioned in Mr. Epps’ forthcoming sentencing exhibits.
“For safety concerns, counsel has redacted the names and identifying information of persons who authored or are discussed in exhibits of sentencing letters and memoranda,” Mr. Ungvarsky wrote. “Documented prior harassment and threats provide a specific basis for this request in this case.”
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Weird, smelly mess, to be sure. I guess they finally decided to indict him after 2.5 years, since it would be hard to make an insurrection claim stick to Trump and others, if someone who actively encouraged people to enter the capital was out walking free.
I haven’t kept up with it much, and spent some time just now watching the videos and researching. Something I find weird is when he whispered to the one guy, who then immediately charged and tore down the barricade. What makes it weird is the fact that Epps had been shouting to protesters all day, giving loud orders, loudly and actively calling people down, even physically pushing them back. But on that one occasion he decided to whisper in someone’s ear? It doesn’t fit.
Now the “reasoning” behind the light sentence is supposedly because he was the target of conspiracy theories. Well, I don’t know what they would expect people to think when they took him off the most-wanted list, did nothing for nearly three years, and now all the sudden, in election season, change their mind and decide to prosecute.
If there wasn’t a conspiracy, I don’t believe they could’ve possibly done a better job of making it look like one. There’s a lot of weird, unexplained, disjointed, inconsistent mess that has been going on, to say the least.
Of course he did…in fact, I am surprised he is not put in a CABNINET POSITION.