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WASHINGTON — A Hollywood actor who had supporting roles in "Anchorman," "Mr. Show," "Arrested Development" and "Bob's Burgers" was sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison on Monday for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Jay Johnston at the Capitol on Jan. 6. In messages ahead of the attack, Johnston wrote to an acquaintance to "Bring food and a toilet" to what he referred to as "the gala affair" on Jan. 6, prosecutors said. Johnston attended another rally featuring conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and others on the night before the Capitol attack and then filmed himself passing "AREA CLOSED" signs on Jan. 6, prosecutors wrote. More than 1,500 people have been arrested in connection with the Capitol attack, and federal prosecutors have secured the convictions of over 1,100 defendants so far.

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☆ The government has to give the QAnon Shaman his spear and helmet back
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The US government will return Jacob Chansley's seized belongings, including his horned headdress. Chansley, known as the "QAnon Shaman," stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementThe infamous Capitol riot defendant known as the "QAnon Shaman" is finally getting back the notorious horned Viking headdress and long spear he sported on the day of the January 6 insurrection.

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☆ Judge orders DOJ to return helmet, spear to 'QAnon Shaman' Jacob Chansley
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley will regain possession of the makeshift spear and horned helmet that he carried as he stormed the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot with other Trump supporters, a federal judge ruled Monday. "Since the government has not established that it still needs these items as evidence and has not sought their forfeiture, the Court will GRANT Mr. Chansley's motion," Lamberth wrote. The DOJ last month said it wanted to hold on to Chansley's property, because despite having expressed remorse at his criminal sentencing, he has since challenged his conviction and sentence. "Even if the government may need to reprove Mr. Chansley's guilt, the government has not explained why it would need his property," the judge wrote in Monday's order. "He was like thousands of others that day," Lamberth wrote in Monday's order.

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☆ The ‘QAnon Shaman’ wants his helmet and spear back but the Justice Department objects
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Katelyn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —The Justice Department doesn’t want to return to Jacob Chansley the infamous horned helmet and flag-pole spear that he carried inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Chansley pleaded guilty — without a trial — to the felony obstruction charge and was sentenced to 41 months in prison in 2021. He has finished serving his prison time but has two years left of court-supervised release. “The government would like to ensure finality in the appellate process in this and other cases,” prosecutors added. “The government’s request to continue to hold the property as evidence until such finality in the criminal prosecution is assured is thus appropriate.”The Justice Department also said it may consider keeping Chansley’s spear and helmet as part of a civil forfeiture.

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☆ 'QAnon Shaman' Jacob Chansley, who served more than 2 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, now wants to run for Congress
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Jacob Chansley, or the "QAnon shaman," became an infamous symbol of the January 6 attack on Congres. Chansley apologized and was recently released from prison after serving more than two years. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Chansley is considering running for a US Congress seat in the 2024 election, representing his home state of Arizona.

Persons: Jacob Chansley, Chansley, —, Debbie Lesko, Lesko, Blake Masters, Abe Hamadeh Organizations: Service, Arizona's, State's, District, The Arizona Republic, Republican Locations: Congres, Arizona, Phoenix

Online paperwork shows the 35-year-old Chansley filed a candidate statement of interest Thursday, indicating he wants to run as a Libertarian in next year’s election for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District seat. U.S. Rep. Debbie Lesko, a 64-year-old Republican representing the district since 2018, announced last month that she won’t seek re-election. Chansley pleaded guilty to a felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding in connection with the Capitol insurrection. Although he previously called himself the “QAnon Shaman,” Chansley has since disavowed the QAnon movement. He identified himself as Jacob Angeli-Chansley in the candidate statement of interest paperwork filed with the Arizona Secretary of State’s office.

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☆ QAnon Shaman flip flops again, this time to defend Trump over his January 6 indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The "QAnon Shaman" Capitol riot defendant has come to the defense of former President Donald Trump. Trump was federally indicted on Tuesday in connection to the January 6 Capitol riot. The "shaman" slammed the indictment, telling Newsweek that Trump had "no role" in the insurrection. Chansley told the BBC last month that statements his former lawyer made in an attempt to get him a lesser sentence were not true. "I never said I was duped by Trump," Chansley told the news outlet.

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☆ Factbox: Who has been prosecuted for trying to undo Trump's 2020 election loss?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Four other defendants have pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy, the Justice Department said in May. MORE THAN 1,000 ARRESTSMore than 1,000 people have been arrested on charges arising from the Capitol attack, according to the Justice Department. Of those, 570 have pleaded guilty and 78 were convicted at trial. Rhodes during his sentencing hearing called himself a "political prisoner" who was trying to oppose people "who are destroying our country." Vallejo was sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of seditious conspiracy and other crimes.

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☆ Judge blasts 'QAnon Shaman' for recanting his apology and refuses to toss out his plea agreement
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A federal judge refused to toss "QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley's guilty plea. The judge pointed to "miles of footage" showing Chansley rioting at the Capitol. "Such an about-face casts serious doubt on the veracity of any of Mr. Chansley's claims, here or elsewhere." In media interviews after his release, he expressed regret for his guilty plea and tried to get it reversed. Carlson, the judge wrote, included "inflammatory characterizations of cherry-picked videos stripped of their proper context" that undermined faith in the criminal justice system.

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☆ The QAnon Shaman's plan to get his guilty plea reversed is 'silly' — and might land him back in prison, ex-prosecutor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The QAnon Shaman, who pleaded guilty to his January 6 involvement, wants his plea reversed. "Regrets only weigh down the mind," Chansley told the BBC in a report published this week. Chansley told the news outlet that statements his former lawyer made in an attempt to get him a lesser sentence were not true. "I never said I was duped by [former President Donald] Trump," Chansley told the BBC. Meanwhile, Aidala told Insider that Chansley should be "grateful that he is no longer incarcerated and that he has his freedom."

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☆ QAnon Shaman, who pleaded guilty and made a heartfelt apology in Jan. 6 case, has changed his mind and wants his plea reversed
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The QAnon Shaman who pleaded guilty for his January 6 involvement wants to reverse his plea, BBC reported. At least not for the QAnon Shaman who was charged and imprisoned following his participation in the January 6 Capitol riot in 2021. Jacob Chansley once issued a moving apology as he pleaded guilty for his participation in the riot. Now that he's out of prison early, what he regrets now is his guilty plea. "Regrets only weigh down the mind," Chansley told the BBC.

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☆ Fact Check-‘QAnon Shaman’ was not freed early due to footage proving Jan. 6 riot was ‘hoax’
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Jacob Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli or the “QAnon Shaman”, is due to be released early from prison in the U.S. due to a combination of factors including good behavior, according to his attorney. Posts online, however, are saying he was released early due to footage of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol showing he was wrongly sentenced or that the event itself was a hoax. Chansley was not released as a result of the video footage released through Tucker Carlson.”In February 2023, TV host Tucker Carlson said he’d been given access to thousands of hours of video footage from the Capitol riot (here). Reuters has debunked multiple other claims alleging the Capitol storming was a hoax (here), (here) and (here). Jacob Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli or “QAnon Shaman”, was not released from prison early because of Jan 6.

☆ The QAnon Shaman's new roommates after he got out of jail had no idea who he was, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jacob Chansley, a January 6 rioter known as the "QAnon Shaman," has been released from prison early. Chansley is carrying out the rest of his prison sentence in a halfway house in Arizona. His new roommates told The New York Post on Sunday they had no idea who he was. A prison spokesperson told Insider's Natalie Musumeci that he was transferred from Arizona's Federal Correctional Institution Safford to "community confinement" overseen by the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Phoenix Residential Reentry Management Office last week. Chansley's projected release date from any kind of federal custody is May 25, the spokesperson added.

☆ 'QAnon Shaman' Jacob Chansley was released early from prison, and a former prosecutor said it's totally normal to have sentences reduced
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

January 6 rioter Jacob Chansley, known as the "QAnon Shaman," has been released from prison early. Chansley was moved to a halfway house in Arizona, his trial lawyer told Insider. Chansley was let out of prison after serving 27 months of his 41-month sentence. Chansley's projected release date from any kind of federal custody is May 25, the Bureau of Prisons spokesperson said. Former New York prosecutor Mark Bederow told Insider that it is "common" for federal inmates to get their sentences lessened under the First Step Act, which was passed in 2018.

☆ Elon Musk has been chit-chatting with a QAnon-linked influencer on Twitter: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk has been chit-chatting with a QAnon-linked influencer on Twitter, a Media Matters report says. According to a record of Musk's tweets compiled by Media Matters, Musk interacted with a Twitter user named KanekoaTheGreat at least 18 times since February 20. Media Matters said it tracked KanekoaTheGreat's online presence and found that they were part of a QAnon influencer group known as We The Media. Musk's question echoed a right-wing conspiracy theory about depleting testosterone levels pushed by shock jock Alex Jones and Fox News host Tucker Carlson. KanekoaTheGreat posted on their Telegram channel in December that they had obtained "the Elon Musk stamp of approval," and highlighted other occasions where Musk has responded to them.

☆ Jimmy Kimmel mocked Tucker Carlson during Oscars, saying good editing can turn even hours of insurrection footage into 'respectful sightseeing tour of the Capitol'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jimmy Kimmel made fun of Tucker Carlson and Fox News while hosting the Oscars on Sunday. He joked that good editing can even turn footage of a riot into a "sightseeing tour of the Capitol." Carlson appeared to use selectively edited clips to claim cops acted as "tour guides" on Jan. 6, 2021. "Edits can turn 44,000 hours of violent insurrection footage into a respectful sightseeing tour of the Capitol." Fox News and Carlson received bipartisan condemnation for their broadcast of previously unseen Capitol riot footage, with Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell describing it as "offensive and misleading."

☆ Elon Musk thought it was unfair to jail the 'QAnon Shaman' who broke into the Capitol, but the DOJ says none of the footage was withheld and Tucker Carlson only showed 4 minutes of it
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A Proud Boy wants to dismiss his seditious-conspiracy case based on Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 footage. The DOJ responded on Sunday that all of the footage was already provided during discovery. Elon Musk previously suggested there was a miscarriage of justice by jailing the "QAnon Shaman." Chansley's former attorney, Albert Watkins, also said that he had not seen the footage aired on Carlson's show, The Washington Post reported. "In the weeks prior to the plea repeated requests were made to make sure we had all the video footage," Watkins wrote in an email.

☆ Elon Musk called for the release of 'QAnon Shaman' Jacob Chansley, jailed for his role in the Capitol riot
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk called for the release of 'QAnon Shaman' Jacob Chansley, jailed over the Capitol riot. "Free Jacob Chansley," the Tesla CEO and Twitter owner tweeted on Friday while sharing a video of Chansley outside the Capitol telling protesters that Trump had told people to go home. And the other video shows him calmly walking in the Capitol building, being escorted by officers and then thanking the officers." The outlet added that the footage aired by Carlson left out important context. According to a timeline of events by the Department of Justice, Chansley was one of the first 30 people to enter the Capitol building on January 6, 2021.

☆ Proud Boy argues that Tucker Carlson's misleading January 6 footage should be reason to dismiss his seditious-conspiracy case
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Tucker Carlson's January 6 footage has been brought up in a January 6 seditious conspiracy trial. Lawyers representing a Proud Boys member asked a federal judge to dismiss his case. He and the co-defendants — Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl — have pleaded not guilty. The lawyers cited the Washington Post's reporting that Albert Watkins, Chansley's lawyer, never saw that footage during his client's case. It's not the first time the Proud Boys members have asked for their case to be dismissed.

☆ White House says 'Tucker Carlson is not credible' after the Fox host claimed January 6 was 'mostly peaceful chaos'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The White House lit into Tucker Carlson after he made misleading claims about January 6. The response shows the nerve Carlson has struck with his selectively edited footage of the riot. "Tucker Carlson is not credible," a White House spokesman said of the host. Bates then went after Carlson by name, poking fun at how the network has portrayed Carlson in past lawsuits. Outside of the White House, Carlson's comments and use of footage his show exclusively obtained from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has set off a torrent of criticism in Washington.

☆ Tucker Carlson Capitol-Riot Segment Criticized by Democrats, Republicans
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Lindsay Wise | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Fox News received early access to the security footage shown in the segment. WASHINGTON—Democratic and Republican lawmakers criticized a Fox News segment that showed previously unaired footage of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, saying it played down the severity of the riot, in which a pro-Donald Trump mob tried to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election. On Monday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired several clips of footage focused on central figures of the day, including Jacob Chansley, the self-described QAnon Shaman. Mr. Carlson said that lawmakers had intentionally overstated the violence and that members of the Jan. 6 committee established to investigate the attack “lied about what they saw” in the footage.

☆ Family of cop who died after Jan 6. slams Fox News for claiming rioters had nothing to do with his death
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The family of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick criticized Fox News. Host Tucker Carlson sought to undermine claims the Jan. 6 riot helped cause Sicknick's death. In the wake of the riot, news organizations citing a Capitol Police statement reported that Sicknick died as a result of injuries sustained during the riot. A coroner in April, 2021, found that Sicknick died of natural causes, but said that "all that transpired (on January 6) played a role in his condition." Chansley was sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in the riot in 2021.Insider has contacted Fox News for comment.

☆ The most ridiculous ways accused Capitol rioters got caught, from bad Bumble matches to an unbelievable Uber ride
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-02 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Without further adieu: The least surprising ways Capitol rioters got caught. 2 accused rioters made big Bumble blundersThese accused rioters' reach for romance landed them in trouble with the law. Officials charged Alam with several counts last year and he pleaded guilty to all charges in December 2021, according to the Justice Department. An unbelievable Uber ride was this accused rioter's downfallAlleged defendant Jerry Daniel Braun was turned in by his get-away car driver, according to court documents. "Well, because, so we could get to the Capitol," Braun replied.

☆ A cop put on a MAGA hat to save fellow officers on Jan. 6 – and an Oath Keeper helped
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-05 | by ( Ryan J. Reilly | Ryan J. Reilly Is A Justice Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +18 min

“Escorted!”The man escorting them, with the bullhorn in the Eddie Bauer jacket, was a member of the far-right Oath Keepers organization. Three other Oath Keepers — Joshua James, Brian Ulrich and William Todd Wilson — have already pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy. Johnson wasn’t aware that Nichols was an Oath Keeper, nor of who the Oath Keepers were, his lawyer said. ‘They’re being scapegoated’The Oath Keepers charged in the seditious conspiracy, according to the government’s evidence, came prepared on Jan. 6. The judge overseeing the Oath Keepers case said that the evidence can be introduced only if the defendants witnessed it directly.

☆ Procurori, despre violențele de la Capitoliu: Suținătorii lui Trump intenționau „să captureze și asasineze oficiali aleși"
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-15 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Procurorii au oferit acest punct de vedere într-un dosar care solicita unui judecător să-l rețină pe Jacob Chansley, omul din Arizona și teoreticianul conspirației QAnon, care a fost fotografiat în timp ce stătea în biroul vicepreședintelui Mike Pence în camera Senatului SUA. „Dovezi puternice, inclusiv propriile cuvinte și acțiuni ale lui Chansley la Capitoliu, susțin că intenția revoltei a fost de a captura și asasina oficiali aleși din guvernul Statelor Unite”, au scris procurorii. Un apărător public care îl reprezenta pe Chansley nu a putut fi contactat imediat pentru comentarii. Evaluarea procurorilor vine în momentul în care procurorii și agenții federali au început să aducă acuzații mai grave legate de violență la Capitoliu. Multe dintre persoanele acuzate până acum au fost ușor depistate de FBI, care are peste 200 de suspecți, datorită în mare parte videoclipurilor și fotografiilor postate pe rețelele de socializare.

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