Thread by @kpolantz

NEW reporting on Roger Stone and the Proud Boys:

Prosecutors investigated them in 2019 re: Stone's Instagram post about the judge in his case. Proud Boys leaders including Enrique Tarrio were subpoenaed for grand jury testimony. No charges resulted.

cnn.com/2021/02/17/pol…

"They asked me about if I had anything to do about posting that. They were asking me if Stone has ever paid me, what he's ever paid me for," Florida Proud Boys head Tyler Ziolkowski told CNN this week.

Roger Stone's ties to the Proud Boys are still in the news following the Jan 6 Capitol riot.
This 2019 investigation, which hasn't been revealed before, shows prosecutors already looked into some aspects of the far-right organization's leaders' ties to Stone.

Roger Stone himself had testified in open court that Proud Boys head Enrique Tarrio and others had been assisting him w his social media.

Here are parts of the court transcript from Feb 2019 where Stone IDs his "volunteers":

Also: Credit is due to @emptywheel for continuing to note in recent weeks how Roger Stone ID'ed Tarrio and the others in his 2019 hearing--and how DOJ political leadership/then-AG Barr downplayed the "crosshairs" threat to the judge for Stone's sentencing.

Remember the Roger Stone sentencing debacle?
On the left is what the DOJ prosecutors who took Stone to trial (successfully) said about his "crosshairs" post, before his sentencing hearing. Should have gotten him more time, they said.
On right, DOJ's 1-paragraph walk-back.