Tarrio acknowledged that his fraud sentence was reduced, from 30 months to 16 months, but insisted that leniency was provided only because he and his co-defendants helped investigators “clear up” questions about his own case. The leader of the far-right Proud Boys group was a prolific informer for federal and local law enforcement, reports say. Tarrios cooperation assisted in the prosecution of more than a dozen defendants. Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio used to be a federal and local police informant, Reuters reported. An FBI agent called Tarrio a “key component” in local police investigations involving marijuana, cocaine and MDMA, or ecstasy. Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys, stands outside Harrys bar during a protest on Decemin Washington, DC. In a weird turn of events, Enrique Tarrio, a. Tarrio’s information led to the prosecution of 13 people on federal charges in two separate cases, and had helped local authorities investigate a gambling ring. Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio revealed as former ‘prolific’ undercover informant for the FBI. He has denied working undercover or cooperating in cases against others. Soon infamous as the mysterious, unnamed Tipper X, Tom spent the next several years wiretapping and documenting the illegal misdeeds of friends and colleagues as an instrumental, key figure in what the FBI deemed Operation Perfect Hedge a Wall Street house-cleaning campaign that matured into the biggest insider trading case of this. In the Miami hearing, a federal prosecutor, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Tarrio’s 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. The Proud Boys were involved in the deadly insurrection at the Capitol on 6 January 2021. On January 13th RedState reported on FBI warnings that armed groups would storm state capitols in 50 states. The media have been helping federal law enforcement push the 'white supremacist threat' narrative for years, if not decades. Tarrio, based in Miami, became the national chairman of the group in 2018. Federal prosecutors have described how an encrypted messaging channel named Boots on the Ground was created for Proud Boys communications in Washington DC on January 6th that grew to include more than 60 users, including an individual identified by the government as Unindicted Co-Conspirator 1. What is missing from this story is the extent to which the Proud Boys have been penetrated by the FBI.
Tarrio, 36, is a high-profile figure who organizes and leads the rightwing Proud Boys in their confrontations with those they believe to be antifa, short for “anti-fascism”, an amorphous and often violent leftist movement. As scores of Proud Boys made their way, chanting and shouting, toward the. Henry "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.
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