Proud Boys members file federal lawsuit over 'illegal' tactics in Jan. 6 prosecutions

Five members of the Proud Boys are suing the U S executive and certain employees in the FBI and Department of Justice for million over their Jan prosecutions Enrique Tarrio Zachary Rehl Ethan Nordean Joseph Biggs and Dominic Pezzola allege in the lawsuit the FBI and DOJ violated their constitutional rights with their prosecution over what prosecutors commented was their planning of the Jan attack on the U S Capitol In a document filed in a Florida federal court and obtained by Fox News Digital the men claim egregious and systemic abuse of the legal system and the United States Constitution to punish and oppress political allies of President Trump by any and all means necessary legal or illegal Through the use of evidence tampering witness intimidation violations of attorney-client privilege and placing spies to record on trial strategy the leadership got its fondest wish of imprisoning the J Defendants the modern equivalent of placing one s enemies' heads on a spike outside the town wall as a warning to any who would think to challenge the status quo OUTGOING US CAPITOL POLICE CHIEF CRITICIZES TRUMP PARDONS FOR JAN DEFENDANTS Fox News Digital has reached out to the U S Department of Justice for comment Four of the five men were convicted of seditious conspiracy after the attack and Tarrio faced the harshest punishment years for planning the attack of any of the Jan defendants according to The Wall Street Journal Nordean was sentenced to years Biggs was sentenced to years and Rehl was sentenced to years Pezzola was located guilty of conspiracy to obstruct Congress and sentenced to years in prison However President Donald Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of nearly all the defendants after he took office this year including Tarrio Rehl Nordean Biggs and Pezzola TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AGREES TO PAY ASHLI BABBITT'S FAMILY MILLIONAll the men except Tarrio were at the U S Capitol Jan according to the Journal Tarrio had been barred from entering Washington D C because of a previous arrest The Washington Post shared Now that the Plaintiffs are vindicated free and able to once again exercise their rights as American citizens they bring this action against their tormentors for violations of their Fourth Fifth and Sixth Amendment Rights as well as the common law tort of malicious prosecution and false imprisonment the suit adds Prosecutors reported Pezzola was seen on video using a police riot shield to commit the first breach of the U S Capitol Jan Prosecutors alleged the men were charged under a novel theory of criminal conspiracy called the tool theory ' according to the suit Despite the legal jiggery-pokery employed by the cabinet to obscure the fact the Plaintiffs were essentially convicted of stochastic terrorism a leftist bugbear used to describe rhetoric offensive to them that they claim provokes violent acts CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe men also claimed in the lawsuit that the administration didn t have probable cause to raid their homes