Zachary Rehl, a political hostage captured on Jan. 6, is already serving a harsh 15-year prison sentence for his involvement in the Capitol events.
However, the current authoritarian leadership is determined to continue abandoning “Trump’s footsoldiers,” particularly targeting veterans who bravely answered the call to duty.
Progressive federal judges and Justice Department officials are subjecting these individuals to taunting, shaming, and denigration.
The government is now demanding that Rehl repay all military benefits he received after his involvement in the attempted overthrow of the United States government on Jan. 6, 2021, with interest.
Following their conviction for seditious conspiracy on May 4, 2023, Rehl and decorated former Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Biggs were also stripped of their military service.
Amanda, Rehl’s wife, was then notified by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that he was required to repay the $70,000 in military benefits he had received after Jan. 6, 2021.
With the rising cost of groceries and the impact of the U.S. economy under Biden’s administration, Amanda struggled to make ends meet, especially with the government pursuing legal action against the primary provider for her family.
Having already spent their life savings and public donations on legal representation for Zach’s criminal case, they were unable to afford the repayment demanded by the authorities.
Journalists obtained a letter sent to Zach from the U.S. Department of the Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service, revealing an additional $20,000 fee added to his debt owed to the government.
“Our records indicate that you owe the U.S. Government $93,138.67,” the notice states. “The Compensation and Pension, Debt Management Center (DMC) referred your unpaid debt to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, for immediate collection.
“You must immediately pay your debt in full to stop collection action and prevent the addition of more interest, penalties and administrative costs.”
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The U.S. Treasury is threatening to seize Zach and Amanda’s wages if the couple fails to fork over the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“As allowed by federal law, we may withhold some or all monies from your tax refunds and other federal and state payments,” the U.S. Treasury cautioned. “We may garnish your wages, refer your unpaid debt to a collection agency and report your debt to the credit bureaus, which could hurt your credit score.”
Except for Zach, who is currently incarcerated, Amanda finds herself as a single mother to their three-year-old daughter after her husband was taken away during an early morning raid. She has faced ongoing challenges in securing employment while being married to the leader of the Proud Boys, who was targeted by both the Department of Justice and Google.
Over the years, Amanda has been reluctant to publicly discuss the terror her family has endured at the hands of the U.S. government in the aftermath of the Capitol riot. Additionally, she has been harassed and threatened by far-left Antifa activists who have transitioned into Sedition Hunters, targeting January 6 protesters and supporters of former President Trump.
The Marine veteran’s wife described the ongoing harassment of her family by the federal in a recent interview with World Net Daily:
“They’ve added on an amount of money that doesn’t even add up. They never gave us that much. Even the amount they initially asked for was too high. They never gave us that amount of money and the fact that they are asking for it is crazy,” she said. “This is just another big ‘F you.’ They are basically just trying to do whatever they can to screw him. Zach doesn’t have another $100,000 to throw away to the federal government for crimes he did not commit.”
Yet the government is demanding payment be made – in full, and immediately, WND reports.
“They want it all back in one lump sum. They keep sending me letters saying, ‘Can you write a check’ for this,” Amanda continued. “I’m sorry. I don’t believe I have that to just give immediately give it you.”
“Instead of cutting off his benefits from the time of his conviction on May 4, they’re cutting them off from the time the crime was committed, which is unheard of. I have no idea what they are going to do next. They said they would garnish wages and taxes, but obviously, they wouldn’t be able to do that for me.”
Amanda recounted her experience at FCI Petersburg, where Zach had the opportunity to hold his daughter, who is now a toddler, for the second time.
Norm Pattis, the attorney for Rehl and Biggs, who were representing the Proud Boys, endured financial hardship as a result of the nearly six-month-long trial.
When law enforcement officers fired the initial round of rubber bullets into the large crowd on January 6, five out of the ten individuals struck were hit in the neck or face.
Zach was struck in the head with the less-than-lethal munitions.
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“We were all standing around, waiting for someone to show up and start speaking, since there were supposed to be all sorts of speaking events going on. But there were a couple of scuffles that broke out, maybe 20-30 yards away because the police started pushing the crowd back for some reason. As we were standing around, I felt something smack me in the head, and I saw people yelling and ducking, putting their hands over their heads or faces,” Zach told TGP, describing the moment police waged a terror attack against the American public on Jan. 6. “I asked the guys I’m with, ‘What the hell is going on? What are they shooting at us!
And they say, they are shooting pepper balls at us, ‘I was like for what? Where do they expect us to go? Thousands of people amassed at this point — it was nonsensical to start shooting people in the heads. They could just move the crowd where they wanted to go. This was straight-up assault at this point!”
Below are photographs Rehl took of himself committing “sedition” during the “insurrection” Democrats claim was akin to Pearl Harbor and 9/11.
Being shot in the head by law enforcement and casually walking through The People’s House during the Save America rally is not just considered seditious conspiracy for the leader of the Proud Boys and Marine Corps veteran, according to the government. It also carries a sentence of fifteen years behind bars, along with lifelong unemployment, financial ruin, and ongoing fines and penalties for holding dissenting views.
The government took pleasure in subjecting J6ers to mistreatment. While awaiting trial, Zach and his co-defendants were confined in a freezing, windowless six-foot cell in solitary confinement at the Alexandria Detention Facility for 17 months, enduring starvation. The Proud Boys were only allowed out of their cells for 15 minutes a day to make phone calls, use the microwave, and shower. They were also forced to wear the same disposable mask throughout their entire incarceration. During this time, the Lockerbie Bomber, responsible for killing nearly 400 people in a plane bombing, was housed among the general population at the same facility.
Ryan Samsel attributes Zach with saving his life by “fishing” food through a toilet—a practice that may seem shocking to those who have never experienced incarceration but is actually a common survival tactic for inmates across correctional facilities in America who face communication restrictions and threats to their safety.
I got what they call a ‘kite,’ which is a note from somewhere else in the building. I was confused, but took it,” he told TGP in an email from FCI Petersburg. “After reading it, I find out there is this other J6er held up in the hole being starved…So, I jumped to reply. At the time, there was a line going from one of the cells on my block through the toilet, up to the hole right where he was.
He was in the hole up on the 8th floor. We had a shitty rope made out of bed sheets that went from the toilet on the 4th floor up to his toilet on the 8th floor.
I was cool with the guys running the line, so I jumped on to send a kite back and see what was going on — to find out why he was in the hole. I sent some food up and asked if he needed anything else.
I didn’t fuck with the rope. That shit was nasty – no pun intended. Yes, its disgusting. But when you wrap something up pretty good, you can send up food and stuff through the toilet without getting feces all over it. I sent him up a whole bag of coffee and some food because I know it sucks up in the hole. Ryan was actually the fist j6er I even came in contact after I was arresteed, which was like a year after I was arrested. It felt so nice to help someone who was in the same position as me.
Guys up in the hole always call down to other floors asking for help for food! They get fed like shit up there, even worse than regular inmates. Every inmate that I’ve seen go to the hole always lost a good 20-30 lbs, at least.
Google removed Zach’s fundraiser from their search engine results.
The tech monopoly has also removed Trump’s campaign website from its search engine results.
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Zach’s criminal defense attorney previously explained the significant barriers in defending the high-profile January 6 defendants for “speech crimes” including speech prohibitions from federal district judges making it impossible to present key evidence and witnesses in court.
“This was the first-ever case in which there were “sealed hearings about confidential informants or confidential human sources,” Pattis exclusively told TGP. “One of our defenses was, ‘There was no plan.’ If there were, the government confidential informants would have heard about it, told the FBI and we would have seen those witnesses.”
“We had to fight for the right to put on any of this information in the presence of the jury, and we won a limited right to do so. But there were hearings that I’m barred from talking about still. And I’ve been convinced in the course of the Proud Boys trial that there is a vast infrastructure of confidential human sources managed by the Justice Department that has infiltrated the right and is part of the government,” he continued. “I think it’s shocking. I see members of the FBI and the Justice Department stonewalling House investigating committees, I wonder where the contempt power is.
“I view Merrick Garland as a cancer on the American body politic. and his transformation of the Justice Department into a Thugs Club is a clear and present danger to civil liberties in the United States.”
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