Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Elmer Stewart Rhodes III (born 1966) is an American former attorney and convicted seditionist. He founded the Oath Keepers, an American far-right anti-government militia. [2] [3] In November 2022, he was convicted of seditious conspiracy and evidence tampering related to his participation in the January 6 United States Capitol attack culminating at the main campus of the United States Capitol ...
The Oath Keepers has been identified as one of the "largest and most prominent organizations of the militia/patriot movement." [33] [34] Oath Keepers was founded in March 2009 by Elmer Stewart Rhodes, [35] [36] [37] a Yale Law School graduate, former U.S. Army paratrooper, and former staffer for Republican Congressman Ron Paul. [38]
Following a hacking incident in September 2021 against a database belonging to the Oath Keepers, Bianco, along with over 200 law-enforcement officers, was exposed as a former member of the organization. [1] [5] [16] He later stated that he had paid for a $40 one-year membership in the organization in 2014 and did not renew it for the next year ...
The former High Point officer spent more than a decade in law enforcement before storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. ... officer joined the Oath Keepers militia group days before the Capitol ...
The names of hundreds of U.S. law enforcement officers, elected officials and military members appear on the leaked membership rolls of a far-right extremist group that's accused of playing a key ...
The "constitutional sheriffs" movement, which has ties to the Oath Keepers and other antigovernment fringe movements, is based on the legally dubious belief that sheriffs are the ultimate law ...
Oath Keepers. Known for. January 6th Capitol attack. Jessica Marie Watkins (born 1982 or 1983) is an American militia founder and former Oath Keeper leader, Army veteran and bar owner who took part in the January 6 United States Capitol attack. She was convicted of multiple felonies relating to her participation and in May 2023 was sentenced to ...
Kelly Meggs (born January 15, 1969) is an American convicted felon who previously led the Oath Keepers ' Florida chapter. [1] He was found guilty of seditious conspiracy following his forced entry into the United States Capitol during the January 6 United States Capitol attack. [2] Meggs was sentenced to 12 years in prison.