Joe Biggs

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Joseph Randall Biggs
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Biggs' 2021 mug shot
Born1983/1984(age 40–41)
Charlotte, North Carolina,
United States
Occupations
Employers
Organization Proud Boys
Known for January 6 Capitol attack
Criminal charges
Criminal penalty17 years imprisonment
Criminal statusImprisoned at
FCI Talladega
Talladega, Alabama, US
Military career
Branch United States Army
Rank Sergeant
Awards Purple Heart

Joseph Randall Biggs (born 1983/1984) is an American veteran, media personality, organizer of the Proud Boys, and convicted felon for his participation in the January 6 United States Capitol attack.

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After serving in the United States Army and suffering a traumatic brain injury, Biggs began working for various conservative media organizations, including InfoWars and Censored.TV . As a leader for the far-right Proud Boys group, he organized and promoted the End Domestic Terrorism rally; was found jointly culpable for an over-$1 million judgment for trespass and vandalism at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church; and helped lead the organization's destructive efforts in the attack on the United States Capitol.

For the last of these, in 2023, he was found guilty on six criminal counts (including seditious conspiracy), and sentenced to 17 years in federal prison.

Personal life

Joseph Randall Biggs [1] was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1983or1984. [2] As of March 2021, he lived in Ormond Beach, Florida, [3] and upon his 2023 trial, had at least one daughter. [4]

In the 2010s, Biggs was arrested in Austin, Texas for assaulting a peace officer while drunk, but a grand jury did not return an indictment. [5] On social media, Biggs has repeatedly posted homophobic and misogynistic content since at least spring 2012; [6] his Twitter and Facebook accounts were suspended for posting threatening messages. [7]

Career

Military

Biggs is a United States Army combat veteran. [8] He suffered a traumatic brain injury during a deployment to Iraq, for which he received a Purple Heart. [9] As reported by Salon, Michael Hastings' book The Operators corroborates Biggs' service in Afghanistan as well as the sergeant's involvement "in a gruesome suicide-bombing incident". In 2007, he was stationed at Fort Bragg when arrested for domestic violence. Biggs claimed his separation from the Army was a medical retirement [5] after eight years enlisted. [10]

Media

He also worked as a correspondent for InfoWars , where he covered the Oath Keepers' actions at the 2015 Ferguson unrest, the 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, [11] conspiracy theories about the 2015 San Bernardino attack, and the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. [6]

In January 2017, Biggs posted online that he had been hired by Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN; "the unofficial version of Trump TV") to make a program focusing on the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution; [6] RSBN refuted that in April, saying they were merely speaking with Biggs and "are anything but racist or sexist here." [12]

In August 2017, Biggs was a speaker at the Boston Free Speech Rally, [2] and by 2019, was the host of a right-wing talk radio show. [13] In September 2020, Biggs was employed by Censored.TV , [14] though his show had been removed by late January 2021. [15]

Proud Boys

By 2019, [7] Joseph Biggs was an organizer of the Proud Boys, a neofascist [16] "far-right, [17] [11] [18] all-male group of self-described 'Western chauvinists'" [17] which the Southern Poverty Law Center has classified as a hate group. [19]

Biggs was an organizer [7] and the main promoter of August 2019's End Domestic Terrorism rally in Portland, Oregon. [19] In the wake of that event, in response to Biggs' threat to return with the Proud Boys on a monthly basis, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler chastized Biggs "for frightening Portlanders with the prospect of violence in the streets", and told the Floridian he was not welcome in Portland. [13]

Biggs' lawyer—J. Daniel Hull—alleged that in late July 2020, the Federal Bureau of Investigation approached his client and enlisted his assistance collecting on-the-ground intelligence about antifa activists. [3]

At the September 29, 2020 presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, when pressured to condemn the Proud Boys as a white supremacy group, the president said, "Proud Boys, stand back and stand by". The next day, Biggs filed a police report with the Volusia County sheriff's office, alleging receipt of threatening phone calls and social-media messages, and requesting police protection. His identity in connection with the report was obfuscated under Marsy's Law. [15]

The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church.jpg
The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.

On December 12, 2020, Proud Boys trespassed the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., destroyed church property, and then celebrated the same. The church filed a lawsuit for compensatory damages against the Proud Boys' limited liability corporation, and specifically named Biggs, Jeremy Bertino, Enrique Tarrio, and John Turano. On June 30, 2023, Judge Neal E. Kravitz of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia issued a default judgment against the defendants for over one million dollars. [20]

Capitol attack

January 6 United
States Capitol attack
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Timeline • Planning
Background
2020 presidential election
and other causes
Related groups and persons
Participants
Notable people
Organizations
Law enforcement response
Aftermath
Biden inauguration
Investigations and charges
Corporate actions
Reactions
Impeachment and 2024 presidential election

Planning and participation

In 2021, prior to the January 6 United States Capitol attack that delayed the certification of Joe Biden's presidential-election win, Biggs exhorted for Proud Boys to "turn out in record numbers [...] We will be blending in as one of you ... We are going to smell like you, move like you, and look like you. The only thing we'll do that's us is think like us!" [18] On January 5, via encrypted social media channels, he communicated with other members: "trying to get our numbers. So we can plan accordingly for tonight and go over tomorrow's plan. [...] info should be coming out [...] we have a plan". [21]

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Biggs marching by the United States Supreme Court Building

Outside the Capitol Building, Biggs spoke privately with Ryan Samsel, who immediately thereafter was the first person to breach the security perimeter. [10] Biggs was one of the first to breach the building itself at about 2:13 p.m., 20 seconds behind Dominic Pezzola, who smashed a Senate window with a riot shield; [18] he was identified by the FBI via photos and videos taken there. [17] Biggs and other Proud Boys were wearing walkie-talkies to allow real-time communication, [18] and Biggs was recorded on video saying of the breach, "This is awesome!" [17] He later left the building, but returned 30 minutes later alongside some Oath Keepers, pushing their way past a law enforcement officer. [21]

On January 18, Biggs admitted to the FBI that he entered the building, but claimed he neither forced his way in, nor knew about the plan to do so. [17] On the morning of January 20, 2021, he was arrested in Florida, [11] charged with knowingly entering a restricted building without lawful authority; obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding; and willfully and knowingly engaging in disorderly conduct to impede a session of Congress. [17] In Orlando court, Biggs did not enter a plea; magistrate judge Embry Kidd released him to home detention [18] with an unsecured bond of US$25,000(equivalent to about $28,000 in 2023), [22] pending his trial in Washington, D.C. [17]

Biggs and three other Proud Boys leaders (Charles Donohoe, Ethan Nordean, and Zachary Rehl) [23] were indicted (United States of America v. Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Charles Donohoe) on March 10, 2021, charged with planning and executing the Capitol attack. [3] On March 20, and based on these new charges, federal prosecutors requested Biggs return to pre-trial detention. [21] Hull attempted to leverage Biggs' alleged prior cooperation with the FBI to keep his client out on bail. [3] Judge Timothy J. Kelly revoked his bail that April, saying, "The defendants stand charged with seeking to steal one of the crown jewels of our country, in a sense, by interfering with the peaceful transfer of power. [...] It's no exaggeration to say the rule of law and ... in the end, the existence of our constitutional republic is threatened by it." [24] In July 2021, Hull complained to Kelly that Biggs' time in the Seminole County, Florida jail was subjecting his Proud Boys client to threats of violence, exacerbating his medical problems, and complicating their defense prep due to a lack of technology. [25]

On June 6, 2022, a superseding grand jury indictment (United States of America v. Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, Enrique Tarrio, and Dominic Pezzola) was issued by the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Matthew M. Graves. [26] In addition to Hull, at the D.C. jury trial, Biggs was also represented by the Connecticut-based Norm Pattis, who was briefly removed from the case when his law license was suspended due to mishandling confidential documents in Alex Jones' trial for defamation. [27]

On May 4, 2023, after the three-month trial in D.C., [28] Biggs was found guilty of seditious conspiracy; obstructing an official proceeding and criminal conspiracy thereto; conspiracy to prevent an officer from discharging any duties; interference with law enforcement during civil disorder; and destruction of government property. Judge Kelly ruled that Biggs' destruction of a fence separating rioters and police qualified the defendant for "a terrorism sentencing enhancement sought by prosecutors", who asked for a 33-year sentence. Prior to sentencing, Biggs apologized to the court, blaming his actions on personal and familial difficulties, [4] and conceded that "I know that I have to be punished and I understand". [29] On August 31, Kelly sentenced Biggs to 17 years of federal imprisonment. [4] As of January 2024, Biggs was prisoner number 26257-509, imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution, Talladega with a release date of October 16, 2035 (11 years' time). [30]

Two days later, Biggs told Alex Jones that his veteran's pension had been revoked, and that if Donald Trump is successful in the 2024 presidential election, "I know he'll pardon me. I believe that with all my heart". On CNN Republican Town Hall with Donald Trump , the former president said that he—if elected—would look into pardoning a "'large portion' of the Capitol riot defendants." [31] In the run up to Ohio's Republican primary for the 2024 US Senate election, incumbent senator J. D. Vance was trying to redefine the extent of the Capitol attack, saying that Biggs and the other men who "tore down barricades and fencing, led people into the building, and fought through officers trying to defend the building" were sentenced too harshly in comparison to other criminals. [32]

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  3. 1 2 3 4 "FBI enlisted Proud Boys leader to inform on antifa, lawyer says". NBC News. Associated Press. March 31, 2021. Archived from the original on May 28, 2023. Retrieved September 3, 2023. The agents who met with Joseph Biggs wanted to know what he was 'seeing on the ground,' his lawyer said, adding, 'They spoke often.'
  4. 1 2 3 Reilly, Ryan J.; Barnes, Daniel (August 31, 2023). "Proud Boy Joe Biggs sentenced to 17 years in Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case". Washington, D.C.: NBC News. Archived from the original on September 10, 2023. Retrieved September 10, 2023. Biggs 'served as an instigator and leader' during the Capitol attack, prosecutors said. Zachary Rehl, another Proud Boy convicted of seditious conspiracy, was sentenced to 15 years.
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