Just a day after he was hit with the indictment, non-CIA agent Ray Epps on Wednesday pleaded guilty via Zoom to the single disorderly conduct charge he’d been hit with for his participation in the January 6th, 2021 MAGA insurrection at the US Capitol, CBS News’s Scott MacFarlane reports.
It’s not clear why Epps, who’s looking at anywhere from zero to six months in the slammer for the crime, wasn’t allowed to plead down to a misdemeanor. But at most a few weeks in jail and a felony rap probably isn’t going to be a big deal for a guy who can reasonably expect a nine-figure payout after getting defamed over and over and over again by Tucker Carlson and others on Fox News.