Telegram.com reports the Republican Town Committee in Hudson has canceled an event next week where local y'all quedaists Mark Sahady and Sue Ianni were scheduled for some post-pardon adulation just because people who objected to their glorification were promising protests and vowing to close their accounts at the bank whose meeting room they were going to use. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 02/14/2025 - 2:16pm
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By adamg - Mon, 01/20/2025 - 10:30pm
As he promised, one of 47's first orders of business was to issue pardons or commutations for all the people who, at his direction, tried to overthrow the government of the United States on Jan. 6, 2021. Among the failed insurrectionists were several people from Massachusetts, three of whom got lucky because they'll never spend any time in prison - two because their cases were still on appeal, the other because he was arrested so late in the process the judge never got around to sentencing him. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 12/22/2024 - 12:30pm
The state Civil Service Commission last week overturned Boston Police's firing of Ofr. Joseph Abasciano, who traveled to Washington to watch Jan. 6 unfold - although he never entered the Capitol - and who, under a pseudonym, posted a series of tweets calling officials who opposed the loser of the 2020 elections a bunch of traitors and urging "a civil war or a violent revolution." Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 10:54am
A former Army captain living in his elderly parents' Malden home will soon be getting new digs thanks to a federal judge, who sentenced him this week to five months in federal prison for the way he waltzed around the Capitol on Jan. 6, yelling stuff like "Yeah! Fuck yeah! Fuck yeah! Patriots Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 10/19/2024 - 10:30am
Joseph Abasciano, fired as a Boston cop in 2023 for going to Washington and posting a series of tweets about the "traitors" in the Capitol and across the country before and during the events of Jan. 6, 2021, yesterday sued Boston and its police department, alleging violations of his First Amendment rights to both free speech and religious freedom by a mayor and police commissioner allegedly out to get him. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 10/11/2024 - 9:38pm
A federal judge in Washington, DC this week convicted the owner of a Fall River market on four counts - one a felony - for throwing a flagpole topper at police and using a bullhorn to encourage other insurrectionists inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, after first videoing himself exclaiming that he'd like to "grab Nancy Pelosi by the hair and fucking twirl her around." Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 09/06/2024 - 1:51pm
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Jacquelyn Starer, who once practiced at Jamaica Plain's Faulkner Hospital, to nine months in prison for not just storming into the Capitol back on Jan. 6, 2021 but for punching a DC cop in the head, cursing her and riling up other putschists in the Rotunda. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 08/16/2024 - 2:35pm
A federal judge yesterday found Mark Sahady, who helped organize bus rides for fellow white supremacists and homophobes to Washington, DC on Jan. 5, guilty of four crimes related to his stomping through the Capitol the following day. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 05/26/2024 - 1:55pm
A federal judge on Friday sentenced former BPD K9 officer Joseph Robert Fisher to 20 months in prison and two years of probation both for embedding himself in the screaming mob that failed to stop American democracy at the Capitol on Jan. 6 in general and ramming a chair into a Capitol police officer then pushing him to the ground in particular. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 04/30/2024 - 9:39pm
Dr. Jacquelyn Starer of Ashland, formerly affiliated with Faulkner Hospital, admitted today she rushed a line of cops in the Capitol and punched one as she screamed "fucking bitch!" at her on Jan. 6. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 02/15/2024 - 3:34pm
A Framingham man was arrested yesterday on a variety of charges yesterday related to the way he allegedly joined in the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 02/06/2024 - 2:06pm
Dr. Jacquelyn Starer, an Ashland gynecologist and addiction-recovery specialist formerly affiliated with Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, is negotiating a possible plea deal for the way she was charged with punching a DC cop in the head during the failed Jan. 6 coup attempt in Washington, according to court records. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 01/06/2024 - 12:56pm
Three years ago today, hundreds of followers of the Insurrectionist in Chief stormed the Capitol and beat cops as they fought for an autogolpe to keep their god-emperor in power. Several were from Massachusetts, including a Nazi-adjacent straight guy, an angry gynecologist, a yoga instructor from Somerville, of all places, a chair-wielding former Boston cop and a man so detested in his hometown, he was quickly turned in by his townspeople. Here's what's happened to them since. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 12/10/2023 - 12:23pm
A federal judge in Washington has set a Feb. 1 hearing at which Joseph Fisher, a retired Boston Police canine officer, is expected to plead guilty to both felony and misdemeanor charges for bursting into the Capitol on Jan. 6 and using a chair to attack a Capitol Police officer who was pursuing one of Fisher's fellow attempted coup-makers. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 08/21/2023 - 2:19pm
Area right-wing rally organizer Mark Sahady of Malden had been scheduled to go on trial today for his alleged role in the failed Jan. 6 Vanilla Isis coup, but a judge last week put a hold on the proceedings until after Sahady can find what would be his fourth lawyer since his arrest. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 08/03/2023 - 12:12am
A federal judge in Washington, DC last week sentenced Noah Bacon, 30, to one year and one day in federal prison following his conviction for traipsing around the Capitol as part of Donald Trump's failed autogolpe. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 07/27/2023 - 6:02pm
A Fall River grocery-store owner was arrested today on felony and misdemeanor charges for his alleged role in the failed Jan. 6 coup at the Capitol.
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By adamg - Mon, 05/15/2023 - 11:41am
Federal prosecutors, who had earlier painted a picture of local right-winger Mark Sahady and his now convicted Natick pal merely strolling through the Capitol on Jan. 6, now say he was a-hootin' and a-hollerin' that day as other rioters smashed their way into the building to try to enthrone Donald Trump as president by force. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 04/14/2023 - 9:37pm
A federal judge in Washington, DC today sentenced Vincent J. Gillespie, 61, of Athol, to 68 months in prison for ramming cops with their own riot shields on Jan. 6, pulling one of the cops towards the surging mob as another protester beat him with a crutch and screaming at the police in his way that they were traitors. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 04/01/2023 - 10:15pm
A federal judge on Thursday let Joseph Fisher return to his Plymouth home to await further proceedings on federal felony and misdemeanor charges for his alleged participation in the Jan. 6 attempt to enthrone Donald Trump in a job voters had turned him out of. Read more.
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