{"id":151788,"date":"2024-01-12T09:15:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T14:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=151788"},"modified":"2024-01-11T11:08:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T16:08:59","slug":"marine-veteran-ray-epps-gets-one-year-of-probation-for-his-role-in-the-capitol-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=151788","title":{"rendered":"Marine Veteran, Ray Epps, gets one year of probation for his role in the Capitol riot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Ray Epps was on video interacting with protesters in Washington DC on January 6, 2021. As many protesters and rioters were brought in to face their charges, Ray Epps was not among them. Conservatives asked why others were held accountable and Epps appeared to keep getting away from accountability. However, Epps recently faced charges. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge, received no jail time, and was put on probation. His probation does not come with travel restrictions.<\/p>\n

From the Military Times:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ray Epps, a former Arizona resident who was driven into hiding by death threats, pleaded guilty in September to a misdemeanor charge. He received no jail time, and there were no restrictions placed on his travel during his probation, but he will have to serve 100 hours of community service.<\/p>\n

He appeared remotely by video conference and wasn’t in the Washington, D.C., courtroom when Chief Judge James Boasberg sentenced him. Prosecutors had recommended a six-month term of imprisonment for Epps.<\/p>\n

Epps’ sentencing took place in the same building where Trump was attending an appeals court hearing as the Republican former president’s lawyers argued he’s immune from prosecution on charges he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election he lost.<\/p>\n

Fox News Channel and other right-wing media outlets amplified conspiracy theories that Epps, 62, was an undercover government agent who helped incite the Capitol attack to entrap Trump supporters. Epps filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News last year, saying the network was to blame for spreading baseless claims about him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military Times has additional information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ray Epps was on video interacting with protesters in Washington DC on January 6, 2021. As … Marine Veteran, Ray Epps, gets one year of probation for his role in the Capitol riot<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,13,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-incompetence","category-society","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}