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QAnon Shaman Sentenced to 41 Months In Prison

November 17, 2021 at 11:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“QAnon shaman” Jacob Chansley, one of the most notorious figures of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, was sentenced Wednesday to three years and five months in prison for his role in the invasion of the halls of Congress by a horde of Trump supporters. CNBC reports.

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Proud Boys Leader Seeks Release from Jail

November 15, 2021 at 8:57 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A national leader of the Proud Boys, a far-right group with a history of violence, asked a judge on Monday to release him from the D.C. jail and place him on home confinement, citing what he described as inhumane conditions in the facility,” the Washington Post reports.

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Bannon Vows to Fight Contempt Charges

November 15, 2021 at 4:10 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A defiant Steve Bannon vowed Monday to challenge federal contempt charges for refusing to cooperate with a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol,” USA Today reports.

Bannon asserted that the Justice Department had taken on the “wrong guy this time.”

He added: “I’m telling you right now, this is going to be the misdemeanor from hell for Merrick Garland, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment, House of Representatives

Steve Bannon Will Turn Himself In

November 12, 2021 at 5:37 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Steve Bannon is expected to self-surrender on Monday after being indicted on contempt of Congress charges and will appear in court later that afternoon, CNN reports.

Aaron Blake: The big warning signal Steve Bannon’s indictment sends.

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Police Officer Died After Failing to Meet Vaccine Mandate

November 11, 2021 at 3:39 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A San Francisco police officer died battling Covid-19 after missing the city’s deadline to be inoculated and being placed on leave for failing to follow the health safety rules,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment, Health Care

Domestic Extremists Push Violence Against Congress

November 11, 2021 at 9:43 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

NBC News: “Domestic extremists continue to exploit false narratives to promote violence online, calling for attacks on members of Congress and public health and school officials, even as they share information about how to build bombs, according to a new intelligence bulletin by the Department of Homeland Security that paints a picture of persistent danger.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Capitol Rioter Gets 41 Months for Punching Police Officer

November 10, 2021 at 12:17 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A New Jersey man who punched a police officer during the January 6 Capitol riot was sentenced to 41 months in prison on Wednesday, CNN reports.

There are roughly 200 more police assault cases from the January 6 riot.
Taegan

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Prince Harry Says He Warned Twitter CEO Before Riots

November 10, 2021 at 8:14 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Britain’s Prince Harry said he warned the chief executive of Twitter ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots that the social media site was being used to stage political unrest in the U.S. capital,” the AP reports.

Said Harry: “Jack and I were emailing each other prior to January 6 where I warned him that his platform was allowing a coup to be staged. That email was sent the day before and then it happened and I haven’t heard from him since.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Pfizer CEO Says Spreading Misinformation Is Criminal

November 10, 2021 at 7:22 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said that people who spread misinformation on Covid-19 vaccines are “criminals” and have cost “millions of lives,” CNBC reports.

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Prosecutors Seek 4 Years for QAnon Shaman

November 10, 2021 at 7:12 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Justice Department is asking for the so-called QAnon Shaman, who wore a headdress and posed shirtless on the Senate floor during the siege of the US Capitol, to be sentenced to a prison term of more than four years, the longest incarceration prosecutors have asked for any guilty January 6 defendant so far,” CNN reports.

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Capitol Rioter Seeks Asylum In Belarus

November 8, 2021 at 1:05 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A man who allegedly participated in the Capitol riot Jan. 6 and is wanted by the FBI is now seeking asylum in Belarus, the country’s state media reported Monday, presenting him as a ‘simple American whose shops were burned by Black Lives Matter activists,'” the Washington Post reports.

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment, Foreign Affairs

Feds Search Home of James O’Keefe

November 7, 2021 at 2:04 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Federal authorities on Saturday searched the home of James O’Keefe, the founder of the conservative group Project Veritas, the New York Times reports.

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

FBI Raids Offices of Project Veritas

November 5, 2021 at 12:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Justice Department searched two locations associated with the conservative group Project Veritas as part of an investigation into how a diary stolen from President Biden’s daughter, Ashley, came to be publicly disclosed a week and a half before the 2020 presidential election,” the New York Times reports.

“Federal agents in New York conducted the court-ordered searches on Thursday — one in New York City and one in suburban Westchester County — at places linked to people who had worked with the group and its leader, James O’Keefe.”

“The investigation is being handled by FBI agents and federal prosecutors in Manhattan who work on public corruption matters.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Majorie Taylor Greene Visits Capitol Rioters In Jail

November 5, 2021 at 11:27 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was finally granted access late Thursday night to enter the D.C. Department of Corrections to visit accused Jan. 6 rioters after months of trying, The Hill reports.

Said Greene: “I have never seen human suffering like I witnessed last night.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment, House of Representatives

Capitol Rioter Insisted She Wouldn’t Go to Jail

November 4, 2021 at 11:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jenna Ryan, who tweeted that she’s “definitely not going to jail” after she stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, was sentenced to 60 days in prison on Thursday, the HuffPost reports.

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Giuliani Seeks to Block Feds from Seeing 3 Items

November 2, 2021 at 5:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Rudy Giuliani is seeking to prevent prosecutors from seeing just three items out of the more than 2,000 items contained on electronic devices seized from him as part of a criminal probe,” CNBC reports.

“The items were contained on seven of the 16 devices seized under search warrants executed at Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment and office in April.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Ex-Tom Barrack Aide Loses Bid to Remove Ankle Bracelet

November 2, 2021 at 4:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Tom Barrack’s ex-assistant, who complained that wearing an ankle bracelet interfered with his surfing and tennis, lost his legal bid to remove the GPS tracking device while he awaits trial with his former boss on charges of acting as unregistered foreign agents,” Bloomberg reports.

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

The Insurrection Was Not an Isolated Event

November 1, 2021 at 7:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “The consequences of that day are still coming into focus, but what is already clear is that the insurrection was not a spontaneous act nor an isolated event. It was a battle in a broader war over the truth and over the future of American democracy.”

“Since then, the forces behind the attack remain potent and growing. Trump emerged emboldened, fortifying his hold on the Republican Party, sustaining his election-fraud lie and driving demands for more restrictive voting laws and investigations of the 2020 results, even though they have been repeatedly affirmed by ballot reviews and the courts. A deep distrust in the voting process has spread across the country, shaking the foundation on which the American experiment was built — the shared belief that the nation’s leaders are freely and fairly elected.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

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