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By January 6, 2022, one year after the attack, more than 725 people had been charged for their involvement; over the following year, the number increased to more than 950. [42] [43] A thousand people had been charged with federal crimes by the end of January 2023, two years after the attack, [6] rising to more than 1,100 in August 2023. [44]
The Proud Boys leadership encouraged members to attend the January 6 event. Leaders used a crowdfunding website to raise money and purchase paramilitary equipment such as concealed tactical vests and radio equipment in preparation for the attack. Chapter leadership spent the days prior to, and morning of January 6, planning the attack.
The six men, along with at least thirty others, were part of a private Telegram group which planned to attack the Capitol on January 6 and conspired to bring weapons. [ 205 ] [ 206 ] June 11, 2021 – The FBI announced arrests and charges for three people, two from Minnesota and one from Iowa, who participated in the events on Jan 6.
A masked rioter in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) A lot of attendees are believed to have peeled off as the siege turned violent.
Nearly 1,600 individuals have faced charges in the four years since a mob of President-elect Donald Trump's supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol, according to figures released by the U.S. Attorney ...
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that the violence of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol “didn’t end that day.” “It didn’t end that day,” Pelosi told ...
Many participants in the January 6 attack were arrested in the days and months that followed, [60] which saw the largest criminal investigation in U.S. history. [61] According to a New York Times report in May 2023, "While many people have called the events of Jan. 6 an 'insurrection,' the Justice Department has not charged any rioters with ...
On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6–3 ruling which ruled in favor of defendant Joseph Fischer and found that a section of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act could not be used to bring obstruction charges against the January 6 defendants. [379] Soon after the ruling, more January 6 prosecution cases would be reopened. [380]