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2 Dec, 8 tweets, 4 min read
NEW: Michigan’s Justin Jersey — aka #Fingerman — was one of the Jan. 6 attackers who helped kick off the online manhunt for Capitol rioters back in January.

The FBI arrested him up today.
huffpost.com/entry/fingerma…
One of his codefendants on the superseding indictment is a fellow Michigan resident IDed through similar means: huffpost.com/entry/logan-ba…
Justin Jersey is charged in a superseding indictment, so there’s no FBI affidavit laying out how this case was built. There is, however, this twitter thread:
#fingerman didn’t get his name because of the middle finger tattoo on his left hand, he got it because in this infamous photo (which features several of his current co-defendants) he’s flipping off cops with what appears to be his non-tattooed middle finger.
Other co-defendants include Jack Wade Whitton (aka #Scallops): huffpost.com/entry/jack-wad…
…and Colton McAbee (aka #ThreePercentSheriff) huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
.@alanfeuer and co. wrote a feature on this cohort in October: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Also on this indictment: █████.

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2 Dec
"Marquez then held his vape pen up to the camera, as if to capture the arrogance of the rioters… smoking in a senator’s office during an Electoral College certification proceeding to formally elect the next President of the United States.”

DOJ wants four months behind bars.
In which a federal prosecutor goes for the dunk via footnote.
The videos cited by the feds should go public after sentencing. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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2 Dec
BOOM: The feds got #fingerman, who brutally assaulted officers and was IDed by #SeditionHunters.
The “fuck you" tattoo on his middle finger helped, but he was also friends with another Capitol rioter who was already arrested, so unclear what got the ball rolling. Will post the court docs when we have them.
Tattoos are the unsung heroes of the Jan. 6 probe, probably followed closely by freckles and moles.
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2 Dec
“We are legit PIC,” one of the co-defendants wrote in the days after Jan. 6, using an acronym for Partners In Crime. “TMZ already released pictures of who they want. We’re good.”
Capitol defendant Rachel Myers, the feds say, is an employee of Delilah’s Gentleman’s Club and Steakhouse in Philly, and wore a Delilah’s backpack to the Capitol. So @PhillyDailyNews has their cover story set for tomorrow.
A friend of one of Myers’ coworkers told the FBI that Myers “claimed she was ok with a civil war 3 weeks before storming the capitol building with fellow terrorists.”
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2 Dec
Capitol rioter Danny Rodriguez may look pretty pathetic in his FBI interview, but don’t let that distract says from the seriousness of Jan. 6, says Mike Fanone.

“Most of the people on the ground are buffoons, so what? There are 15,000 of them.”

huffpost.com/entry/mike-fan…
“They take a Danny Rodriguez interview, and they see that oh, this guy’s a moron. He’s a sad person who’s kind of pathetic in a way, and they think, ‘How bad could Jan. 6 really have been?’”

“They’re not looking at the big picture.”

huffpost.com/entry/mike-fan…
Some highlights of Danny Rodriguez spilling his guts to the FBI:
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2 Dec
Last week, Jan. 6 bus organizer Frank Scavo was sentenced to 60 days behind bars. Today, the feds released copies of his videos. (Thread) huffpost.com/entry/frank-sc…
Here's some of Frank Scavo's high-quality footage:
"This is top-secret shit, we're in the Capitol. Stormed the fucking Capitol of the fucking United States at 58 years old. What the fuck is wrong with America?" -- Frank Scavo
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2 Dec
NEW: Officer Mike Fanone tells me the FBI recording of Danny Rodriguez confessing to driving a stun gun into Fanone's neck on Jan. 6 shows how Trump “manipulated” his followers. huffpost.com/entry/mike-fan…
“I hold no fucking grudges towards him whatsoever, because in Danny Rodriguez, I see a lot of people that I know. He’s a moron and a misfit, and he was like many people looking for camaraderie, looking for something to belong to.” huffpost.com/entry/mike-fan…
“If you look at [Danny Rodriguez’s confession tape] and you can’t see the direct correlation between Donald Trump and his supporters’ quote-unquote ‘political speak’ and their actions on Jan. 6, you’re an idiot.” — Mike Fanone huffpost.com/entry/mike-fan…
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