Proud Boys members file federal lawsuit over 'illegal' tactics in Jan. 6 prosecutions

Five members of the Proud Boys are suing the U.S. authorities and definite employees successful the FBI and Department of Justice for $100 cardinal implicit their Jan. 6 prosecutions. 

Enrique Tarrio, Zachary Rehl, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs and Dominic Pezzola allege successful the suit the FBI and DOJ violated their law rights with their prosecution implicit what prosecutors said was their readying of the Jan. 6, 2021, onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol. 

In a papers filed successful a Florida national tribunal and obtained by Fox News Digital, the men assertion "egregious and systemic maltreatment of the ineligible strategy and the United States Constitution to punish and oppress governmental allies of President Trump, by immoderate and each means necessary, legal, oregon illegal.

"Through the usage of grounds tampering, witnesser intimidation, violations of attorney-client privilege, and placing spies to study connected proceedings strategy, the authorities got its fondest privation of imprisoning the J6 Defendants, the modern equivalent of placing one’s enemies' heads connected a spike extracurricular the municipality partition arsenic a informing to immoderate who would deliberation to situation the presumption quo."

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Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl astatine the U.S. Capitol successful February.  (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the U.S. Department of Justice for comment. 

Four of the 5 men were convicted of seditious conspiracy aft the attack, and Tarrio faced the harshest punishment — 22 years for readying the onslaught — of immoderate of the Jan. 6 defendants, according to The Wall Street Journal. 

Nordean was sentenced to 18 years, Biggs was sentenced to 17 years and Rehl was sentenced to 15 years. Pezzola was recovered blameworthy of conspiracy to obstruct Congress and sentenced to 10 years successful prison. 

However, President Donald Trump pardoned oregon commuted the sentences of astir each the defendants aft helium took bureau this year, including Tarrio, Rehl, Nordean, Biggs and Pezzola. 

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All the men but Tarrio were astatine the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, according to the Journal. 

The U.S. Capitol riot Jan. 6, 2021.  (Shay Horse/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Tarrio had been barred from entering Washington, D.C., due to the fact that of a erstwhile arrest, The Washington Post reported. 

"Now that the Plaintiffs are vindicated, free, and capable to erstwhile again workout their rights arsenic American citizens, they bring this enactment against their tormentors for violations of their Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment Rights … arsenic good arsenic the communal instrumentality tort of malicious prosecution and mendacious imprisonment," the suit adds. 

Prosecutors said Pezzola was seen connected video utilizing a constabulary riot shield to perpetrate the archetypal breach of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6.

President Trump pardoned oregon commuted the sentences of astir each the Jan. 6 defendants.  (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

Prosecutors alleged the men were charged nether a "novel mentation of transgression conspiracy called the ‘tool theory,'" according to the suit. "Despite the ineligible jiggery-pokery employed by the authorities to obscure the fact, the Plaintiffs were fundamentally convicted of ‘stochastic terrorism,’ a leftist bugbear utilized to picture rhetoric violative to them that they assertion provokes convulsive acts."

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The men besides claimed successful the suit that the authorities didn’t person probable origin to raid their homes.