Re: PB's Squealing Like Pigs, Turning in Everybody Around Them for Reduced Sentencing, Plea Bargins
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Date: April 08, 2021 10:26AM
Weeks ago, another attorney for Pezzola wrote in court filings that he believed a so-called "cooperating witness" was sharing information about the Proud Boys. Prosecutors had revealed the witness heard Proud Boys members talking about wanting to kill members of Congress and then-Vice President Mike Pence and return to Washington for Inauguration Day, and that members of the group had access to guns. The witness wasn't charged with a crime and isn't affiliated with the Proud Boys, the Justice Department later clarified.
In other cases, court records have shown key people among the extremist groups on January 6 haven't been indicted, for reasons that are still unclear. And some defendants who aren't charged in the alleged extremist group conspiracies could have valuable information for the investigation.
At least one defendant, Jon Schaffer, a guitarist with the heavy metal band Iced Earth, is considering cooperating, according to a filing on Monday. Schaffer allegedly charged at police officers in the Capitol insurrection and is in jail while he awaits trial. In court, he has distanced himself from the Oath Keepers.
Still, Schaffer did "debrief interviews" starting in March, according to the filing, which prosecutors intended to share in court confidentially and mistakenly made public.
"Based on these debrief interviews, the parties are currently engaged in good-faith plea negotiations, including discussions about the possibility of entering into a cooperation plea agreement aimed at resolving the matter short of indictment," the filing said