Exclusive: Proud Boys leader was 'prolific' informer for law enforcement

[Sedona]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript of a 2014 federal court proceeding obtained by Reuters.

In the Miami hearing, a federal prosecutor, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Tarrio’s own lawyer described his undercover work and said he had helped authorities prosecute more than a dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling.

Tarrio, in an interview with Reuters Tuesday, denied working undercover or cooperating in cases against others. “I don’t know any of this,” he said, when asked about the transcript. “I don’t recall any of this.”

Tarrio, 36, is a high-profile figure who organizes and leads the right-wing Proud Boys in their confrontations with those they believe to be Antifa, short for “anti-fascism,” an amorphous and often violent leftist movement. The Proud Boys were involved in the deadly insurrection at the Capitol January 6.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-proudboys-leader/exclusive-proud-boys-leader-was-prolific-informer-for-law-enforcement-idUSKBN29W1PE

[Bengus81]

1. So he thinks ratting out a few people over the years changes Jan 6th??

Dream on asshat..........

[Rorey]

5. He's saying he doesn't recall doing it

How in the hell could one forget being an informant?

Prison will be fun for him.

[ancianita]

14. That's a line to keep him alive. Informants are usually arrested in advance or during crimes.

He's either being witness protected or moving on under new identities and disguises. Most likely, though, he's run out of street cred and the FBI wants to shut him down.

[marble falls]

16. They paid him off in drugs.

[3Hotdogs]

25. Delivered by Oliver North?

[marble falls]

26. One of the rew bagmen you could trust not to sample.

[greenjar_01]

2. Mysteriously gaffled up by feds and prohibited from being in DC during the riots

How convenient for Enrique.

I'm sure Dominic Pezzulo, sitting in lockdown in Rochester and basically waiting on a multi-year sentence to a federal penitentiary is feeling real great about Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio avoiding involvement in the Capitol attack.

Hey Dominic, are you Proud of Your Boy?

[58Sunliner]

3. Maybe why he was arrested/absent on the day of the insurrection.

[jpak]

4. A Rat...in prison

Good luck with that!

[Rorey]

7. Yep

It's as bad, maybe worse (for him) than being a chomo.

[certainot]

12. cooperation may keep him out and get him a new identity? if he

was involved in coordinating with the trump bunch he might know some shit. but then, if he had told the feds what was being coordinated why wasn't the capitol better prepared?

[stevesinpa]

17. it's well known

why the capitol wasnt better protected. trump's people in the pentagon hamstrung the commander of the DC National Guard and prevented him from deploying his troops to the capitol. the attack was an inside job starting with the cult leader, trump.

[certainot]

19. and there should also be a record of where the warning generated by the proudboy rat stopped

[Dustlawyer]

29. Wonder if his fellow PBs like having a narc as their leader right now?

[theneworiginal]

64. This can be awkward, particularly in a prison setting

filled with white supremacists who would rather slit a rat's nut sack open before they shank him up in an artery.

I wonder how Don Jr. is feeling about all those heart to hearts he had with the not-so-proud boy now.

[Goonch]

6. Enrique Tarrio & Friends

[Evolve Dammit]

43. So a rat, a fascist and Fox News liar walk into a photo op...

[Irish_Dem]

8. So who was he working for on Jan 6th?

[Marcuse]

9. USA or TSA?

[Irish_Dem]

30. Snitches could work for any body who offers cash.

[Miguelito Loveless]

10. Oh dear,

Somebody is not going to win a popularity contest in prison, or out. So, now the leader of the "Proud Boys" is going to rat everyone out in hopes of staying out of jail.

Like He Who Cannot Be Shamed, they pick only the "Be Best" people.

[dalton99a]

11. So he forgot to tell his handler about the insurrection

[SoFlaBro]

13. Snitches in lock up and prison get beat up for telling on people and working for police. Ironclad.

n/t

[COL Mustard]

15. Snitches Get Stitches

I bet the SA...er, Proud Boys...will deliver a message to him!!!

[Lucky Luciano]

28. Hmm...maybe the Walter White prison treatment for witnesses?

[DeminPennswoods]

18. The great thing is,

whether or not this is true, now proud boys will all be looking at each other with suspicion. This should be quite excellent at sowing dissention within their conspiracy-minded ranks.

[SeattleVet]

37. Common tactic is to 'out' and 'apprehend' one informant/plant,

so that the others that are still embedded can continue their work.

"See, they got the rat!" - without realizing that this was just the sacrificial one, removed and becoming the 'shiny object' to distract them from looking deeper at others in their organization.

The Proud Little Boys and Boogaloo idiots have mist likely been massively infiltrated by now.

Of course, several of our 'FRiends' are now claiming that they always thought that these groups were all setup, false-flag operators all along, and they never trusted them. Sure. We'll believe you.

[DENVERPOPS]

38. No kidding

The FBI should announce that they have infiltrated the ranks of every right wing group, each with a dozen undercover agents, (not really), and then just sit back and let them go after each other........LOL

[marie999]

49. What make you think that the FBI doesn't have agents or informers in many of them?

[marie999]

50. What make you think that the FBI doesn't have agents or informers in many of them?

[Lucky Luciano]

20. The ultimate dox would be to inform those he informed on!

[jmowreader]

21. Where is Martin Scorsese when you need him?

I predict a movie entitled Proud Boys. It’ll be just like Goodfellas, and end the same way: with Tarrio in the Witness Protection Program and lots of Proud Boys being hauled off to prison.

[PatrickforO]

22. Oh oh. I sense the witness protection progam in Tarrio's near future.

What a dirt bag. And a traitor to boot.

[KG]

23. predictable - he has no core beliefs or integrity.

[IronLionZion]

24. Wait, so law enforcement is saying he's an informant

but he denies doing it? Sounds like the feds are throwing him under the bus for his fellow proud boys to get him.

[aggiesal]

27. How delusional is this guy? ...

It amazes me every time I see this.
Hispanic people voting for Pendejo45, after all the crap he's thrown at us.

Now this guy, with an Hispanic name (probably Cuban), in charge of a White Supremacist group? Really?
What makes him think if everything goes south, that the KKK won't kill him with the rest of the non-whites?

One last note: Antifa is not a leftist movement.
They are anarchists (at least the one's causing riots) and will cause trouble regardless of who is in power.
Guaranteed, if they haven't already, they will cause trouble to make Biden look just as bad as Pendejo45.

[IronLionZion]

32. He's black Cuban

and the proud boys are split on white supremacy. Some of them keep a token brown or black male around to claim they're not racist. Others go full nazi. They mostly agree on misogyny and anti-immigration. Yet they have also had a few self-hating women hanging around them like Lauren Southern and Deanna Lorraine.

[aggiesal]

33. Looking at the picture of Enrique Tarrio (message #6 above), he is not black n/t

[IronLionZion]

35. Many Cubanos are mixed race

he has some African ancestry

[dalton99a]

34. He is a career criminal with GOP connections

[ForgoTheConsequence]

39. Stop bringing up ANTIFA it's a right wing media trope.

And you can have a Hispanic surname and be a white supremacist. There are white supremacist organizations all over Spain and South America.

[aggiesal]

45. I agree that ANTIFA is a RW meme ...

I had a RW "Friend" say to me, "I hate to tell you, but George Soros is funding ANTIFA."
I jump on that and replied "Just who in ANTIFA is GS funding? It's not an organization it a government organization theory."

Also, I don't care if there are white supremacist organizations in Spain or South America,
if the time ever comes where WS have any kind of power, they will look at any hispanic
WS as a brown skin, Spanish speaking non-white, and will kill them without thinking twice.

They're all idiots.

[Turin_C3PO]

47. White supremacists

accept Spaniards because they are white. As for Latinos, it depends on the white supremacist organization. Some do, some don’t.

[aggiesal]

48. I'm Mexican, which is a mix of Spainiards and Indians ...

but I have to mark WHITE on any document that asks for my race.
Yet I'm dark brown skinned, fluent in Spanish, but speak predominately English.

I would never consider joining any WS group.

And I'm amazed that Latinos & Hispanics have WS organizations.

Again, they're idiots!

[ForgoTheConsequence]

54. A lot of hispanics aren't mixed and they're proud of it (aka racist)

Latin America is full of white Europeans from Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal, etc.

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U994c2akVvg/Smthlep1pkI/AAAAAAAAAFU/hWjA1di-7nI/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/28+recital.jpg

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/chilean-skinheads-belonging-to-a-local-neonazi-group-give-the-nazi-picture-id1223461120?s=2048x2048

Chilean skinheads belonging to a local neo-nazi group give the nazi salute 05 September 1993 during a gathering at the General Cemetary as they celebrating the 55th anniversary of the killing of 59 leftist supporters by the police of former Chilean right-wing ruler Arturo Alessandri Palma. AFP PHOTO (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

[aggiesal]

56. Hispanics are European, Mexicans are Hispanics/Indian mix. ...

You're giving a headache.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

57. Mexican is a nationality!

There are Afro-Mexicans, Asian Mexicans, a large Arab diaspora, etc. Saying Mexicans are only of mestizo background is ignorant.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

53. They will look at a light haired fair skinned hispanics as "non white"?

Nazis literally fled to South America and South American fascism is based on European fascism.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacuara_Nationalist_Movement

[aggiesal]

55. Great, you stick with your Spain & South American White Supremacists ...

I'm referring to Latinos and Hispanics who live in the States and align themselves
with WS, predominately KKK, which will never accept anything but White, Anglo, Saxon, Protestants
as their White Supremacy.

Going to a KKK or White Supremacy meeting looking like a latino and speaking Spanish, they will not be accepted.

They're all idiots.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

59. The Klan is nothing these days.

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And assuming that all white supremacists are WASPS is archaic thinking. Fascism itself has lots of history with traditionalist Catholicism and the Proud Boys were founded by a Catholic. Fr Coughlin was one of the most prominent anti-semite fascists in American history and NOT A WASP.

[aggiesal]

60. Bye, leave me alone.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

61. Learning is lame, I know.

Bye.

[aggiesal]

63. No it's not that, ...

It's that your the type of person that needs to be right all the time.

It doesn't matter what or how I respond or even if the point I'm trying to make has nothing to do with other regions world you bring up, you have to prove your right.

So have fun with that.

You've insulted me twice.
I have never blocked anyone in this forum, but you're coming close.

[Turin_C3PO]

46. Of course Spain has white supremacists.

They’re white. I’m a little surprised that it’s prolific in Latin America where most people are of a mixed heritage.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

52. Argentina is overwhelmingly white (Spanish, Italian and German)

Why do you think all the Nazis fled to South America? They have a long history of fascism and racism against indigenous people.

[brush]

51. Agree with most of what you say. Tarrio is obviously a POC...

and is the founder of a racist, fascist organization? That almost sounds like Dave Chapelle's blind, black klansman. He's got to be a law enforcement plant who conveniently got "arrested" the day before the Jan. 6 insurrection.

I disagree on antifa. IMO they're leftist. Their very name means anti-fascist. And it's not an actual organized group but loose group of people with a similar mindset who commit to combat against white supremacist fascist. They're on our side.

[Mr.Bill]

31. I've been saying for a long time

The FBI infiltrates groups like this. Either by placing an agent among them or flipping their members.

[Justice]

36. Did proud boys know Pentagon blocked Nat Guard

Requests? How much tit for tat went on here.

[Nitram]

40. Ouch! Once that's out his life might not be worth much.

[Aviation Pro]

41. Snitches get stitches

.....

[ironflange]

42. Recently moved to an undisclosed location

[Mr.Bill]

44. I don't know if he was a snitch,

but it's great that they outed him as one. They need to put out a press release saying that just about everyone they arrested for the Capitol riot is telling them everything they know.

[orangecrush]

58. Good

Now he can be a jailhouse informant.

[live love laugh]

62. "...Antifa, short for "anti-fascism," an amorphous and often violent leftist movement..." 🙄