Exclusive: Proud Boys leader was 'prolific' informer for law enforcement
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript of a 2014 federal court proceeding obtained by Reuters.
In the Miami hearing, a federal prosecutor, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Tarrios own lawyer described his undercover work and said he had helped authorities prosecute more than a dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling.
Tarrio, in an interview with Reuters Tuesday, denied working undercover or cooperating in cases against others. I dont know any of this, he said, when asked about the transcript. I dont recall any of this.
Tarrio, 36, is a high-profile figure who organizes and leads the right-wing Proud Boys in their confrontations with those they believe to be Antifa, short for anti-fascism, an amorphous and often violent leftist movement. The Proud Boys were involved in the deadly insurrection at the Capitol January 6.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-proudboys-leader/exclusive-proud-boys-leader-was-prolific-informer-for-law-enforcement-idUSKBN29W1PE
Bengus81
(6,928 posts)Dream on asshat..........
Rorey
(8,445 posts)Prison will be fun for him.
ancianita
(35,929 posts)He's either being witness protected or moving on under new identities and disguises. Most likely, though, he's run out of street cred and the FBI wants to shut him down.
marble falls
(56,996 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,321 posts)marble falls
(56,996 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)How convenient for Enrique.
I'm sure Dominic Pezzulo, sitting in lockdown in Rochester and basically waiting on a multi-year sentence to a federal penitentiary is feeling real great about Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio avoiding involvement in the Capitol attack.
Hey Dominic, are you Proud of Your Boy?
58Sunliner
(4,372 posts)jpak
(41,756 posts)Good luck with that!
It's as bad, maybe worse (for him) than being a chomo.
certainot
(9,090 posts)was involved in coordinating with the trump bunch he might know some shit. but then, if he had told the feds what was being coordinated why wasn't the capitol better prepared?
stevesinpa
(143 posts)why the capitol wasnt better protected. trump's people in the pentagon hamstrung the commander of the DC National Guard and prevented him from deploying his troops to the capitol. the attack was an inside job starting with the cult leader, trump.
certainot
(9,090 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,494 posts)theneworiginal
(302 posts)filled with white supremacists who would rather slit a rat's nut sack open before they shank him up in an artery.
I wonder how Don Jr. is feeling about all those heart to hearts he had with the not-so-proud boy now.
Goonch
(3,597 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,694 posts)Irish_Dem
(46,468 posts)Marcuse
(7,443 posts)Irish_Dem
(46,468 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,451 posts)Somebody is not going to win a popularity contest in prison, or out. So, now the leader of the "Proud Boys" is going to rat everyone out in hopes of staying out of jail.
Like He Who Cannot Be Shamed, they pick only the "Be Best" people.
dalton99a
(81,391 posts)SoFlaBro
(1,911 posts)n/t
COL Mustard
(5,869 posts)I bet the SA...er, Proud Boys...will deliver a message to him!!!
Lucky Luciano
(11,248 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,265 posts)whether or not this is true, now proud boys will all be looking at each other with suspicion. This should be quite excellent at sowing dissention within their conspiracy-minded ranks.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)so that the others that are still embedded can continue their work.
"See, they got the rat!" - without realizing that this was just the sacrificial one, removed and becoming the 'shiny object' to distract them from looking deeper at others in their organization.
The Proud Little Boys and Boogaloo idiots have mist likely been massively infiltrated by now.
Of course, several of our 'FRiends' are now claiming that they always thought that these groups were all setup, false-flag operators all along, and they never trusted them. Sure. We'll believe you.
DENVERPOPS
(8,787 posts)The FBI should announce that they have infiltrated the ranks of every right wing group, each with a dozen undercover agents, (not really), and then just sit back and let them go after each other........LOL
marie999
(3,334 posts)marie999
(3,334 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,248 posts)jmowreader
(50,528 posts)I predict a movie entitled Proud Boys. Itll be just like Goodfellas, and end the same way: with Tarrio in the Witness Protection Program and lots of Proud Boys being hauled off to prison.
PatrickforO
(14,558 posts)What a dirt bag. And a traitor to boot.
KG
(28,751 posts)IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)but he denies doing it? Sounds like the feds are throwing him under the bus for his fellow proud boys to get him.
aggiesal
(8,907 posts)It amazes me every time I see this.
Hispanic people voting for Pendejo45, after all the crap he's thrown at us.
Now this guy, with an Hispanic name (probably Cuban), in charge of a White Supremacist group? Really?
What makes him think if everything goes south, that the KKK won't kill him with the rest of the non-whites?
One last note: Antifa is not a leftist movement.
They are anarchists (at least the one's causing riots) and will cause trouble regardless of who is in power.
Guaranteed, if they haven't already, they will cause trouble to make Biden look just as bad as Pendejo45.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)and the proud boys are split on white supremacy. Some of them keep a token brown or black male around to claim they're not racist. Others go full nazi. They mostly agree on misogyny and anti-immigration. Yet they have also had a few self-hating women hanging around them like Lauren Southern and Deanna Lorraine.
aggiesal
(8,907 posts)IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)he has some African ancestry
dalton99a
(81,391 posts)ForgoTheConsequence
(4,867 posts)And you can have a Hispanic surname and be a white supremacist. There are white supremacist organizations all over Spain and South America.
aggiesal
(8,907 posts)I had a RW "Friend" say to me, "I hate to tell you, but George Soros is funding ANTIFA."
I jump on that and replied "Just who in ANTIFA is GS funding? It's not an organization it a government organization theory."
Also, I don't care if there are white supremacist organizations in Spain or South America,
if the time ever comes where WS have any kind of power, they will look at any hispanic
WS as a brown skin, Spanish speaking non-white, and will kill them without thinking twice.
They're all idiots.
Turin_C3PO
(13,902 posts)accept Spaniards because they are white. As for Latinos, it depends on the white supremacist organization. Some do, some dont.
aggiesal
(8,907 posts)but I have to mark WHITE on any document that asks for my race.
Yet I'm dark brown skinned, fluent in Spanish, but speak predominately English.
I would never consider joining any WS group.
And I'm amazed that Latinos & Hispanics have WS organizations.
Again, they're idiots!
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,867 posts)Latin America is full of white Europeans from Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal, etc.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U994c2akVvg/Smthlep1pkI/AAAAAAAAAFU/hWjA1di-7nI/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/28+recital.jpg
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/chilean-skinheads-belonging-to-a-local-neonazi-group-give-the-nazi-picture-id1223461120?s=2048x2048
Chilean skinheads belonging to a local neo-nazi group give the nazi salute 05 September 1993 during a gathering at the General Cemetary as they celebrating the 55th anniversary of the killing of 59 leftist supporters by the police of former Chilean right-wing ruler Arturo Alessandri Palma. AFP PHOTO (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
aggiesal
(8,907 posts)You're giving a headache.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,867 posts)There are Afro-Mexicans, Asian Mexicans, a large Arab diaspora, etc. Saying Mexicans are only of mestizo background is ignorant.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,867 posts)Nazis literally fled to South America and South American fascism is based on European fascism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacuara_Nationalist_Movement
aggiesal
(8,907 posts)I'm referring to Latinos and Hispanics who live in the States and align themselves
with WS, predominately KKK, which will never accept anything but White, Anglo, Saxon, Protestants
as their White Supremacy.
Going to a KKK or White Supremacy meeting looking like a latino and speaking Spanish, they will not be accepted.
They're all idiots.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,867 posts)Last edited Wed Jan 27, 2021, 10:34 PM - Edit history (1)
And assuming that all white supremacists are WASPS is archaic thinking. Fascism itself has lots of history with traditionalist Catholicism and the Proud Boys were founded by a Catholic. Fr Coughlin was one of the most prominent anti-semite fascists in American history and NOT A WASP.
aggiesal
(8,907 posts)ForgoTheConsequence
(4,867 posts)Bye.
aggiesal
(8,907 posts)It's that your the type of person that needs to be right all the time.
It doesn't matter what or how I respond or even if the point I'm trying to make has nothing to do with other regions world you bring up, you have to prove your right.
So have fun with that.
You've insulted me twice.
I have never blocked anyone in this forum, but you're coming close.
Turin_C3PO
(13,902 posts)Theyre white. Im a little surprised that its prolific in Latin America where most people are of a mixed heritage.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,867 posts)Why do you think all the Nazis fled to South America? They have a long history of fascism and racism against indigenous people.
brush
(53,738 posts)and is the founder of a racist, fascist organization? That almost sounds like Dave Chapelle's blind, black klansman. He's got to be a law enforcement plant who conveniently got "arrested" the day before the Jan. 6 insurrection.
I disagree on antifa. IMO they're leftist. Their very name means anti-fascist. And it's not an actual organized group but loose group of people with a similar mindset who commit to combat against white supremacist fascist. They're on our side.
Mr.Bill
(24,230 posts)The FBI infiltrates groups like this. Either by placing an agent among them or flipping their members.
Justice
(7,185 posts)Requests? How much tit for tat went on here.
Nitram
(22,758 posts)Aviation Pro
(12,123 posts).....
ironflange
(7,781 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,230 posts)but it's great that they outed him as one. They need to put out a press release saying that just about everyone they arrested for the Capitol riot is telling them everything they know.
orangecrush
(19,400 posts)Now he can be a jailhouse informant.