Scrutify: To pull apart, inspect, study, analyze. examine.
by The Staff
Kansas resident who participated in the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Affidavit in Support of Criminal Complaint and Arrest Warrant. (PDF)
AZCentral.com, Anne Ryman, February 11, 2021 – Arizona arrests of brother and sister in US Capitol riot show a link to Proud Boys (PDF)
by The Staff
Participated in the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Affidavit in Support of Criminal Complaint and Arrest Warrant. (PDF)
AZCentral.com, Anne Ryman, February 11, 2021 – Arizona arrests of brother and sister in US Capitol riot show a link to Proud Boys (PDF)
by The Staff
Participated in the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Affidavit in Support of Criminal Complaint and Arrest Warrant. (PDF)
AZCentral.com, Anne Ryman, February 11, 2021 – Arizona arrests of brother and sister in US Capitol riot show a link to Proud Boys (PDF)
by The Staff
Republican state Senator still trying to overturn Arizona’s electoral vote.
“We issued a subpoena and they have given us the finger,” said Sen. Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert.
Democrats argued that the measure was a political distraction fueled by conspiracy theories and that any number of additional audits or hearings would not satisfy Republicans after President Joe Biden’s victory in the state.
by The Staff
The storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6 has brought to the fore a host of activists on the extreme right whose violent rhetoric helped to create the conditions for an assault that left five dead. One of the most prominent of those activists is Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward. 1
Robert Mercer, the Long Island, N.Y., billionaire well-known as a political benefactor of Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, appears to be the financial force behind a television attack ad against Sen. John McCain. 2
by The Staff
Sidney Katherine Powell (born 1955) is an American attorney and former federal prosecutor, best known for her promotion of conspiracy theories in attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. 3
Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit on Thursday against Fox News, some of the network’s star hosts, including Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro and pro-Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, alleging the parties worked in concert to wage a “disinformation campaign” about the company. 4
by The Staff
Patricia Ashton Derges
Derges, a 63-year-old Republican who was elected to the state House in November, now faces 20 criminal charges, including wire fraud and distribution by means of the Internet without a valid prescription, a federal grand jury indictment unsealed on Tuesday revealed. 5
An elected Missouri state representative has been indicted by a federal grand jury for a fraud scheme in which she made false claims about a supposed stem cell treatment marketed through her clinics in southern Missouri, and for illegally providing prescription drugs to clients of those clinics. 6
Below is a portion of the indictment. Click on the PDF footnote to read the full indictment.
“Beginning on an unknown date, but no later than in or about December 2018, and continuing until in or about May 2020, in Greene County, in the Western District of Missouri, and elsewhere, DERGES, with the intent to defraud, devised and intended to devise a scheme to defraud her patients, and to obtain money and property by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises.” 7
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Peter Anderson Sessions (born March 22, 1955) is an American politician from Texas who is the Representative for Texas’s 17th congressional district. 8
EVIDENCE: House GOP Rep. @PeteSessions met with terrorists who attacked Capitol and killed officer. He told them to “keep fighting.” They listened. Out of a consciousness of guilt Sessions deleted this tweet. pic.twitter.com/UaMzR3MOB8
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) January 11, 2021
by The Staff
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician who was the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. 9
“Trump has offered state and federal prosecutors a buffet of options for criminal and civil charges. On the federal level, one of the most plausible crimes Trump could be charged with is obstruction of justice.” 10
“Former president Donald Trump’s ongoing criminal investigations may finally be catching up to him. While there are currently three active criminal investigations (and 29 civil suits) regarding the former president, it’s the one headed up by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. that we should have our eye on, according to both former US Attorney of the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara and a few high-ranking Palm Beach, Florida county officials.” 11
This trial arises from President Donald J. Trump’s incitement of insurrection against the Republic he swore to protect. The House of Representatives has impeached him for that constitutional offense. To protect our democracy and national security—and to deter any future President who would consider provoking violence in pursuit of power—the Senate should convict President Trump and disqualify him from future federal officeholding.
by The Staff
“While some Republicans have tried to portray Greene as a political anomaly, her ascent demonstrates the extent to which key party leaders embraced her and propelled her to victory despite her well-documented history of spreading false claims and violent rhetoric.” 13