UNBREAKING: Ray Epps is finally charged by the DOJ and all he got was a misdemeanor

by The Right Scoop

The man who told people to go into the Capitol on January 6 and was among the first to breach the barricades outside the Capitol building has finally been charged by the DOJ.

But unlike so many, all they are charging him with is a misdemeanor for disruptive conduct on restricted grounds.

Here’s more via NBC News:

Ray Epps, a Jan. 6 participant whose removal from the FBI’s Capitol Violence webpage sparked conspiracy theories that he was a federal informant, was charged in connection with the Capitol attack on Tuesday.

Epps is charged with one misdemeanor count, disorderly or disruptive conduct on restricted grounds. He was charged by information, suggesting that he plans to enter a plea deal. Not long after he was charged, a virtual plea agreement hearing was set for Wednesday, Sept. 20 before Chief Judge James Boasberg.

The criminal information charges that Epps “did knowingly, and with intent to impede and disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business and official functions, engage in disorderly and disruptive conduct in and within such proximity to, a restricted building and grounds—that is, any posted, cordoned-off, and otherwise restricted area within the United States Capitol and its grounds, where the Vice President was and would be temporarily visiting—when and so that such conduct did in fact impede and disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business and official functions, and attempted and conspired to do so.”

Epps is not charged with entering the Capitol; he is only known to have been on the grounds on Jan. 6. NBC News reached out to lawyers representing Epps, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

One person posted this on X noting the unfair difference in the sentencing: “One of these guys walked into the Capitol on January 6, took a selfie, and left. The other was caught on video telling people to go inside the building and was one of the first to breach the barricades. One was convicted of “seditious conspiracy” and sentenced to 15 years in jail. The other just received one misdemeanor for being in a restricted area.”


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