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there are hundreds of people being charged or having been charged. there are bound to be some cases which deviate from the norm in terms of sentencing, duration of trial, etc.
In this case, people were highlighting him over nine months ago, and I think there was one or two predicting this particular prat would get either no charges or a cushy deal back before the move from reddit.
There are some plausible innocent explanations -- this story is about a judge complaining that the DoJ was being too lenient with sentencing requests of other people, albeit none who'd been as high-profile, and Epps genuinely has been extremely cooperative with progressive efforts since -- but random chance isn't really one. And those kinder explanations are hard to isolate from less good ones with the available information.
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Sure - but there's reasons why. Someone makes a choice about who gets charged with what. They don't just pick a crime out of a barrel.
Jan 6th was a major incident, and the DoJ has come down on the perpetrators like a pile of bricks. They've been especially harsh on the people who helped orchestrate it, like Tarrio. And that's good! They deserved it! But in the midst of that, you have this guy on camera telling people "Tomorrow, we go into the Capitol" and he gets a slap on the wrist? What?
Please, if you can think of an alternative explanation, share it.
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