Five leaders of the Proud Boys convicted of spearheading the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack are accusing the government and FBI employees of violating their constitutional rights, according to a lawsuit filed Friday.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, seeks $100 million in restitution and comes after President Trump pardoned nearly all Jan. 6 defendants on his first day back in the White House.
The five Proud Boys — Enrique Tarrio, Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl, Joe Biggs and Dominic Pezzola — stood trial together in 2023, accused of plotting to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election so Trump could stay in power after he lost the election.
Four of the men were found guilty of seditious conspiracy. Pezzola was acquitted of that charge but convicted of other ser