2 Proud Boys charged for threatening thousands of Democrats

[rogue06]

Well... not exactly.

Source: Justice Department charges 2 Iranians who pretended to be Proud Boys, sent Republican officials a fake ballot fraud video, and threatened tens of thousands of Democratic voters

• DOJ announced the indictments of two Iranian nationals on Thursday for foreign election interference.
• The duo posed as Proud Boys, sending a fake video to Republican officials that showed ballot tampering.
• They also sent emails threatening violence to tens of thousands of Democratic voters.

The Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it had indicted two Iranian nationals for interfering in the 2020 presidential election. The pair posed as Proud Boys — a far-right, all-male American militia group — as part of a "cyber-enabled" campaign to intimidate voters ahead of the 2020 election, according to the department.

A DOJ press release named Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi and Sajjad Kashian, two young men based in Iran, as the defendants in the case.

"As alleged, Kazemi and Kashian were part of a coordinated conspiracy in which Iranian hackers sought to undermine faith and confidence in the US presidential election," said US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams in the press release.

The indictment alleges that the duo obtained confidential voter information from at least one state website, while attempting to access several others. As part of a broader voter intimidation effort, the department says, the pair posed as a "group of Proud Boys volunteers" and created a fabricated video depicting a person hacking state voter websites and using the information obtained to create fake absentee ballots.


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[seanD]

So is this the DoJ's way of saying Proud Boys has been infiltrated by Iranians? I'm actually surprised they didn't say ISIS or Al-Qaeda.