These two have not stopped their organizing since chartering buses to the Capitol Insurrection...
Business Insider
A Capitol rioter's lawyer, who helped secure his release from prison, said his client has not paid him for his work and isn't returning any of his phone calls, The Daily Beast reported.
Mark Sahady, a computer programmer and Army veteran from Massachusetts, was arrested and charged in January with disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds and knowingly entering a restricted building without lawful authority.
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Sahady has apparently also not stopped attending rallies. He was recently spotted at an anti-mask "freedom rally" in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, despite being under indictment, the Daily Beast reported. Footage of the event, obtained by the Daily Beast, shows Sahady speaking on stage.
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Del Gallo said he is frustrated by this outcome because he's been tirelessly working on the case and even had to pull several all-nighters to prepare the defense that ultimately got Sahady out of jail. The defense attorney declined to specify how much money his client owes him.
Maybe Sahady won’t pony up because of all the restrictions on his release...
WBUR
...Assistant U.S. Attorney William Bloomer called the conditions [of Sahady’s release] "reasonably calculated" to protect the public. Bloomer said that because Sahady is accused of being part of a demonstration that resulted in violence, the conditions are necessary for public safety.
"These conditions should be imposed, considering this defendant was part of a group that stormed the Capitol and engaged in riotous activities that resulted in five deaths," Bloomer argued in court. "This is not a case where we're seeking to impose conditions that trample his first amendment rights."
After Boal approved the conditions and warned that not accepting them would mean that Sahady would remain in jail during appeal, Del Gallo agreed to the conditions. Sahady must also surrender his passport, not travel out of state and stay away from the Massachusetts State House.
These arrogant pinheads spoke at a rally in Boston last month...
The Washington Post
BRIDGEWATER, Mass. — In federal court, Mark Sahady and Suzanne Ianni are facing charges of illegal entry and disorderly conduct for their alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. But at a rally against coronavirus restrictions held last month in a field outside Boston, the pair were hailed as "patriots."
“Yeah, we are definitely not terrorists,” Sahady, 46, told the crowd. “Make no mistake about it: This is a political prosecution.”
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Sahady and Ianni are members of a right-wing, Massachusetts-based group called Super Happy Fun America, which first drew national attention for organizing a 2019 Straight Pride Parade in Boston. At the rally last month, group president John Hugo praised the two as “freedom fighters” for the roles they played on Jan. 6.
The group’s leaders say they chartered six buses to ferry Trump supporters to D.C. to protest the outcome of the 2020 race. Many are now coping with the consequences of their actions.
Apparently the only qualification one needs to join this bigoted organization is an opposable thumb...
Their motto is “It’s great to be straight.”
Metro West Daily News
NATICK — Sue Ianni said she doesn’t understand why those who attended Wednesday’s protest in Washington, D.C., that resulted in violent clashes inside the U.S. Capitol are being called “domestic terrorists.”
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Ianni declined to comment when asked if she marched to the U.S. Capitol and entered the building, offering that “too many people were arrested wrongly for a peaceful protest after being waived in by Capitol police.”
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Ianni said she was the lead organizer of 11 buses that left Massachusetts on Tuesday for the ride to Washington. About 300 members of Super Happy Fun America filled six of the buses. The remaining five included members from various Massachusetts groups, Ianna said, including Vietnam Americans for Trump and Bay State Chinese-American Patriots. Both groups were major financial donors that paid for the bus trips, according to Ianni.
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“As an American, we have the right to protest, not shut us down,” she said. “We can’t let them win. We will never let them win.”
Naturally their social media posts are being used as evidence...
US Attorney’s Office DC — 1/19/2021 Press Release
Mark Sahady, 46, of Malden, Mass. and Suzanne Ianni, 59, of Natick, Mass., were each charged by criminal complaint with one count of entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and one count of disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. Sahady and Ianni will make their initial appearances in U.S. District Court in Boston this afternoon.
According to the criminal complaint, Sahady is the vice president of an organization called “Super Happy Fun America,” which allegedly purports to advocate for the “straight community.” Beginning on approximately Nov. 16, 2020, Sahady tweeted statements exhibiting a belief that the presidential election was stolen, and that people need to gather in D.C. on January 6, 2021 to respond. Photos posted on a Twitter account connected to Super Happy Fun America show Sahady on a bus with other individuals with the caption, “Bus 1 of 11 coming to Washington DC. See you there!”
According to the criminal complaint, Ianni is also involved with “Super Happy Fun America.” The complaint alleges that Ianni organized buses for Super Fun Happy America to transport individuals to Washington D.C. for the January 6, 2021 event. Ianni is pictured alongside Sahady in the bus photo on Twitter. Following the Capitol breach, the public and media posted photos and identified people who were at the riot and entered the Capitol. Photographs show Sahady and Ianni standing next to each other inside the U.S. Capitol during the breach.
Their cases have been moved to Washington, D.C.
Patch
The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested Natick Town Meeting member Suzanne Ianni at her home in late January, and she was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and disorderly conduct on U.S. Capitol grounds, according to court records.
Ianni's case was initially being prosecuted out of U.S. District Court in Boston. But the case was transferred on Jan. 28 to federal court in Washington, D.C., records show.
Ianni was arrested along with Super Happy Fun America Vice President Mark Sahady of Malden. The pair were part of a large group that traveled to the Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rally hosted by the Donald Trump campaign, but Ianni and Sahady were photographed together inside the Capitol. Sahady's case has also been moved to Washington.
This was the shocking scene at their Straight Pride Parade in August of 2019...
Their future events weren’t so eventful...
Metro Weekly
Mark Sahady, vice president of Super Happy Fun America — which organizes “Straight Pride” — was arrested in Malden, Mass., on Tuesday after joining other Trump supporters in storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in an attempt to stop the certification of President Joe Biden’s election victory.
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The organization, which has links to right-wing trolls, went so far as to design a “straight pride” flag, and previously claimed that straight people are an “oppressed majority.”
The “Straight Pride” movement died a quick death later that year, after an event in Dallas, Tex., drew just two supporters.
Ianni’s actions have cause a bit of a kerfuffle back home...
Boston Globe
More than 500 Natick residents have signed a petition demanding the ouster of a Town Meeting member who organized buses of conservative activists to Washington, D.C., last week and entered the US Capitol with a violent mob, but town officials said Wednesday evening that they had no power to remove her.
Town Meeting member Suzanne Ianni provoked controversy in town and online after she was photographed inside the Capitol and marching through the streets alongside far-right-wing activists.
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The Select Board unanimously voted during Wednesday’s meeting to adopt two separate statements denouncing the violence and the public health hazards associated with the largely unmasked crowd that stormed the Capitol.
The FBI continues to seek the public’s assistance in identifying individuals who participated in unlawful conduct during the Capitol Insurrection.
If you have information about bigots who have trouble recognizing their own crimes and/or can’t pay the lawyers they need after storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, call 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) or leave a tip online. You may also submit relevant photos and videos to the FBI here.
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