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Proud Boy Joe Biggs faces decades in prison in Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case

www.nbcnews.com Proud Boy Joe Biggs faces decades in prison in Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case

The former Infowars correspondent will be sentenced Thursday. Biggs “served as an instigator and leader" during the Capitol attack, federal prosecutors said, requesting 33 years in federal prison.

Proud Boy Joe Biggs faces decades in prison in Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case

A Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy who the government says "served as an instigator and leader" during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol could face decades in federal prison at his sentencing Thursday.

The government wants Joe Biggs, an Army veteran who sustained a head injury in Iraq and then served as a correspondent for the conspiracy website Infowars, to serve 33 years in federal prison. That's 15 years longer than the longest sentence in a Jan. 6 case to date: the 18-year sentence that went to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, also convicted of seditious conspiracy, after prosecutors sought 25 years in federal prison.

Federal prosecutors say Biggs was a “vocal leader and influential proponent of the group’s shift toward political violence” and used his “outsized public profile” and his military experience as he “led a revolt against the government in an effort to stop the peaceful transfer of power.”

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