A review by the Associated Press finds that DC federal prosecutors are increasingly asking judges to impose fines on January 6th defendants to offset donations from MAGA scumbags, particularly in cases where the rioters raised money for legal fees but then ended up using public defenders.
In the case of Markus Maly, a Virginia insurrectionist who raised $16,000 calling himself a “January 6 POW” on MAGA GoFundMe knockoff GiveSendGo but then used a public defender at his December 2022 trial where he was convicted of multiple violent felonies, prosecutors are asking the judge to impose a $16,000 fine at his sentencing next month. Same story with dickhead Daniel Goodwyn, who called himself a “political prisoner” in an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show, raising $25,000 for himself two months after he pleaded guilty. Earlier this month a judge dinged Nevada insurrectionist Nathaniel DeGrave for the same amount after his lawyer William Shipley provided the court with receipts showing the $120,000 DeGrave raised was $25,000 more than Shipley had charged in legal fees. Judges aren’t greenlighting all the fines, putting the burden on prosecutors to prove that the defendants’ fundraising hauls are clearly above and beyond legal fees and other costs associated with throwing their lives down the toilet out of cultish devotion to a failed tyrant.