Share this page!

Brad Heath Profile picture
Twitter logo
22 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
News organizations paid accused Jan. 6 rioter John Sullivan $90,000 for footage of a fatal shooting during the siege.

He was caught on video boasting that he was going to "instigate shit. ... I'm gonna make these Trump supporters f--- all this shit up."

reuters.com/world/us/us-se… Image
[selective inclusion of profanity in original]
The Justice Department redacted the names of the news organizations. It's been reported previously that CNN and NBC each paid $35,000. And the description of this $10,000 payment to Sullivan pretty clearly refers to The @washingtonpost. Image
One other thing about this: Nearly all of the media's $90,000 payments to Jan. 6 riot suspect John Sullivan for his footage from inside the Capitol came *after* he was charged with federal crimes (by complaint on Jan. 13 and indictment on Feb. 3).

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Image

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Brad Heath

Brad Heath Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @bradheath

Brad Heath Profile picture
19 Apr
Each paragraph of MyPillow's lawsuit against Dominion is a unique little work of art.
I'm not sure how to reconcile MyPillow's claim that it was harmed by Dominion squelching debate about the election with its claim that it really wasn't involved in any of this election stuff at all, but maybe you're meant to read it more as a collection of short stories.
Also I'm not sure how MyPillow can credibly claim that it wasn't commenting on the 2020 election and wasn't interested in commenting on it, and also that Dominion's litigation unconstitutionally silenced its election commentary.
Read 4 tweets
Brad Heath Profile picture
16 Apr
DOJ filed a lawsuit today against ex-Trump adviser Roger Stone saying he owes nearly $2 million in unpaid taxes and penalties and that he and his wife used an LLC to "shield their personal income from enforced collection and fund a lavish lifestyle."
DOJ says Stone and his wife moved $1 million to their LLC in 2018-19, then had the LLC pay "a substantial amount of their personal expenses," including groceries and dentist bills. This "evaded and frustrated the IRS's collection efforts."
DOJ straight-up accuses Roger Stone and his wife of fraud. (This is a civil case, though.)
Read 4 tweets
Brad Heath Profile picture
1 Apr
Wisconsin @GovEvers asked a court to impose $106,780 in sanctions over ex-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell's failed effort to overturn the presidential election there. "There is no reason for Wisconsin taxpayers to bear the expense of this attempt to hijack the democratic process."
The brief walks through the short history of the case, which is a compendium of things you should not do in litigation.
It goes on.
Read 5 tweets
Brad Heath Profile picture
26 Feb
Nearly two years after the Justice Department IG recommended it, the DEA hasn't committed to conducting a "rigorous legal review" before using its subpoena power to launch "bulk collection" surveillance programs.
Goes back to this:
"Next time check to see whether it's legal *before* doing it" might be the most anodyne recommendation ever from an IG. The recommendation doesn't actually say that the DEA needs to conclude the program is legal - just that it should pause to think about it.
Read 4 tweets
Brad Heath Profile picture
15 Jan
NEW from @Reuters: Federal prosecutors have offered an ominous new assessment of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week, saying they had "strong evidence" that "the intent of the Capitol rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials."

reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Prosecutors alleged that the man who appeared shirtless wearing horns on the Senate dais during the siege participated "in an insurrection attempting to violently overthrow the United States government," its strongest language so far describing last week's unrest.
(Fixing a typo): The court filing in which prosecutors allege rioters planned to assassinate elected officials is here: courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Our story, with @SarahNLynch, is here: reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Read 9 tweets
Brad Heath Profile picture
15 Jan
From @Reuters: The first wave of arrests from the siege of the U.S. Capitol was of rioters who made themselves especially visible - people who mugged for cameras or posted real-time confessions online. Authorities expect more serious charges will follow.

reuters.com/article/us-usa…
The Capitol mob was a diverse mix of QAnon adherents, right-wing activists and people who were school employees, policemen and even an Olympic swimmer. One had an attempted-murder rap. What united them was support for Trump and a deep political grievance.
For the most part, the people facing charges so far in the Capitol siege made it exceptionally easy for the FBI to find them. I've never seen this many people charged with this many crimes this quickly based on their own public confessions.
reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @bradheath has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @bradheath!

Read all threads by @bradheath

:(