1/6 Insurrection Investigation

[Rick Plant]

Jan 6 defendant Mark Mazza is serving federal sentence thru February 2026 at fed prison in Michigan

Feds argued Mazza brought a Taurus revolver, loaded with 3 shotgun shells and 2 hollow point bullets, into DC, to the Ellipse, and then to the Capitol.

https://justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/indiana-man-sentenced-prison-carrying-gun-and-assaulting-law-enforcement-officers-jan-6


Jan. 6 rioter who brought two guns to Capitol sentenced to five years in prison

Mark Mazza dropped one of his guns at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and then claimed it was stolen



WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump supporter who brought two guns to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and dropped one of them on Capitol grounds, was sentenced to five years in federal prison on Friday.

Mark Mazza was sentenced to 60 months behind bars by Judge James E. Boasberg. Before he was sentenced, Mazza told the court he got "caught up in a mob mentality that I never anticipated" and that he was "not quite the monster that the prosecution has described me as."

Federal prosecutors said that Mazza, "while armed with [a] .40 caliber loaded firearm, engaged in multiple efforts to break through the police line: he repeatedly pushed against officers using the combined physical exertion of the mob; he armed himself with a stolen police baton and assaulted officers with the baton; he yelled at officers telling them to get out the mob’s way and to 'Get out of our house!'; he held open the door to the tunnel entrance against the resistance of officers, and after being rebuffed, he gathered additional rioters into the tunnel area to continue 'heave-ho' pushes against officers in the doorway."





The government also said that, after Mazza came out of the tunnel, he was nearby as officers including Mike Fanone were assaulted, but that Mazza "did not assault the officers and video appears to show him trying to protect both officers from other rioters who were assaulting them."

Mazza told the judge he brought the weapons to D.C. because he brings weapons everywhere and had thought he and the person he was traveling with were staying in a dangerous location in the nation's capital. Although Mazza now admits he lost one of his guns at the U.S. Capitol, he filed a false police report claiming it was stolen back in his home state of Indiana.

Mazza said he regretted coming to the Capitol on Jan. 6.

“I wish I could erase it. I wish I could go back and take that hour back" and maybe go to a museum and grab some dinner, he said. He said he felt bad for his children and hoped that his parents won't die before he gets out of federal prison.

“I’m treating this kind of like another military step, like it’s something I’ve got to do,” Mazza, a veteran, said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-rioter-brought-two-guns-capitol-sentenced-five-years-prison-rcna53454

[Richard Smith]

Incredibly another week passes with no sign of the leftist manifesto in the Nashville shooting.  Parents are still being denied answers from the FBI regarding the reason their children were killed due to political motivations.  It is disgusting.  At least the FBI director is finally going to be held accountable for obstructing the investigation into Biden, Inc.  Finally going to be held in contempt of Congress. Russia and Putin have nothing on the corruption and abuse of power going on in the US.  I'm surprised the FBI has not staged another tactical raid on Trump's home after the CNN report that the pool overflowed.  Must be the Russians at work.

[Rick Plant]

Another new Jan 6 case is unsealed this week. Feds charge Scott Columbus of Central New York, alleging he was near mob ransacking a Capitol office.

They say Columbus claimed to have been "pushed in" at Capitol.. but feds argue the video shows otherwise.

[Rick Plant]

Plea agreement hearing today in Jan 6 case of James Breheny of N. Jersey who allegedly posted on Jan 6 "The Government has become tyrannical. The People’s Duty is to replace that Government with one they agree with"  He allegedly deleted social media account to avoid detection.

[Rick Plant]

Jan 6 rioter who broke through Capitol windows with baseball bat is sentenced



A Pittsburgh man who was seen in images using a baseball bat to smash through windows in the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to 51 months in prison, Patch.com reported.

Jorden Robert Mink, 29, was also sentenced to 36 months of supervised release and was ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. He was charged with assaulting, impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon, theft of government property and aiding and abetting.

Prosecutors say Mink shattered a window on the Capitol building with a baseball bat and started removing property, which he handed to people in the crowd outside. He was also seen using the bat to shatter another window.

He was also seen spitting at police officers and throwing several objects at them.

Read More Here: https://patch.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh/pittsburgh-area-man-sentenced-u-s-capitol-riot-role

[Rick Plant]

BREAKING: Mark Meadows has already testified against Donald Trump to Jack Smith’s 1/6 grand jury, per the NYT. It didn’t happen today, it happened at some unknown point in the past. This means Trump’s 1/6 indictment process could be complete, along with the Trump docs indictment.

This does not tell us if Meadows has “flipped” on Trump. Meadows was already under court order to testify to testify about every Trump crime that Meadows witnessed but did not participate in.

If Meadows has flipped, he would also testify about Trump crimes he participated in.

But it does tell us that Meadows wasn’t stupid enough to get immediately hauled off for contempt of court, which is what would have happened if Meadows had refused to testify at all.

It also shatters the myth that the media can spot every witness entering or exiting the courthouse.

Meadows testified without the media spotting him. It’s only coming out now because someone is talking.

[Rick Plant]

Mark Meadows is the 'single most important witness' — on multiple federal cases: legal expert



Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows testified to a grand jury in the federal investigations of Donald Trump, according to a bombshell report on Tuesday. He could reportedly be a very important witness.

Speaking to CNN, legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig outlined just how valuable a witness Meadows is, in not one but both of the federal investigations into the former president.

"Pretty big win for the special counsel, Jack Smith, to secure the testimony of Mark Meadows," said anchor Jake Tapper.

"Yeah, Jake, this is significant in a few respects," said Honig. "First of all, Mark Meadows was one of the last remaining major witnesses who we knew was outstanding, who, until this point, we did not know had testified. Now he has testified. If it's in a grand jury, he has testified under oath. He obviously was very close to Donald Trump throughout the lead-up to and during January 6th. I think he's the single most important witness as to January 6th and, as you said, he would have relevant information, potentially, as well about the retention of sensitive or classified documents that underlies the Mar-a-Lago examination and investigation. So Mark Meadows is a crucial witness on both of the matters that the special counsel has before him right now."

"I personally, as a journalist, have a lot of questions for him about these conversations," said Tapper. "One of the questions is, what exactly did he convey to the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, if anything, leading up to that time? There's talk of them reaching out to Meadows and Roger Stone and Michael Flynn, who are the individuals that have the relationships with those far-right paramilitary groups."

"I think that's the issue with Mark Meadows: he seems to have been a fulcrum of communications," said Honig. "Everything went through him, and Meadows did cooperate briefly with the January 6th Committee and turned over those hundreds or thousands of very revealing text messages where we saw members of Congress and members of Donald Trump's family and White House advisers reaching out to him saying, you've got to do something, you have to get him to do something. Now Mark Meadows then suddenly hit a wall and basically said, I'm not cooperating then, and he was held in contempt by the January 6th Committee, although DOJ declined to prosecute him."

"One big question I have about the testimony that we're now learning Mark Meadows gave is, under what conditions did he give that testimony?" Honig added. "We know that he raised an executive privilege objection, basically saying, I can't testify about these confidential communications with the president, but he lost that fight. He and Donald Trump lost that fight in court. I wonder whether Mark Meadows took the Fifth and had to be given immunity in order to testify, and it's really important to know, did he have any agreement in place with prosecutors that underlied his testimony?"

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