DOJ just made a major breakthrough in taking down the January 6th criminal conspiracy
The Department of Justice has spent all year busting one January 6th culprit after another in order to try to collect as many cooperating witnesses as possible, so it could keep moving up the hierarchy. It’s been a frustratingly long process, but this is how these probes succeed when they do succeed. Now the DOJ is starting to get a lot closer to hitting pay dirt.
Proud Boys member Matthew Greene just pleaded guilty in court to not only obstruction of the January 6th vote certification, but also conspiracy charges. According to NBC4 Washington, Greene has agreed to fully cooperate with the Feds. This means he has to give up everyone else in the Proud Boys who participated in January 6th, or who committed any crime of any sort. So the Feds have just found their clear shot at taking down the Proud Boys. But it may be bigger than that.
Greene’s decision to plead guilty to conspiracy charges means that he’s admitting the whole thing was in fact a criminal conspiracy. It means he’s going to help take down everyone else he conspired with in relation to the Capitol attack, including those who aren’t in the Proud Boys.
Whether or not the DOJ was going to be able to take down the biggest political names associated with the January 6th attack was always going to come down to whether it could flip enough cooperating witnesses to build viable criminal cases against those who orchestrated January 6th but kept their own hands off the attack itself. Pinning down a cooperating witness like Matthew Greene is how the DOJ makes those kinds of charges stick. It’s why the process has taken so long. Now we’ll get to see just how high up the January 6th criminal charges go.
