FBI Informants Play Key Role in Proud Boys Sedition Trial

The trial of five Proud Boys accused of sedition in connection with the storming of the Capitol has revealed an unusual number of informants that the FBI had in or near the group. Defense lawyers had suggested that the bureau had as many as eight informants in the far-right organization in the months surrounding Jan. 6, 2021. The newly disclosed informant, a Texas-based activist named Jen Loh, took part in prayer meetings with some of the defendants’ relatives and had multiple contacts with the defendants themselves while they have been in jail. The defense has upended the standard pattern and rather than attacking the informants has embraced them, issuing subpoenas to more than a half-dozen to appear as witnesses at the trial.