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<blockquote data-quote="RobGMN" data-source="post: 8910318" data-attributes="member: 683408">Paid and pardoned insurrectionists...[ATTACH=full]68401[/ATTACH][URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7l47xrpko[/URL]&nbsp;“The total cost of the insurrection to the taxpayers is estimated to be $2.7 billion, and that does not account for the lives lost due to the violence that day.&nbsp; Thanks to President Trump’s reckless pardons, convicted rioters can not only walk freely, but they also are no longer required to pay their court-ordered restitutions, much of which was owed directly to your office.”Restitution was “one of the most common sentences handed down” to January 6th insurrectionists, but offenders were slow to repay their obligations, and taxpayers were “far from being made whole.”&nbsp; A June 2024 CBS News <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-restitution-capitol-damage/" target="_blank">investigation</a> found that only a small fraction—$437,000, which is just 15%—of the nearly $3 million owed in restitution by Jan. 6 offenders for the damage they inflicted on the Capitol had been repaid in the years since the attack. The official numbers from the Architect of the Capitol remain unknown and must be released.&nbsp; The Government Accountability Office <a href="http://www.gao.gov/assets/d23106625.pdf" target="_blank">estimated</a> that the true cost to taxpayers was $2.7 billion, a figure that included property damage, expenses incurred by the Capitol Police, the District of Columbia, and federal agencies, and costs to improve security.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/president-trumps-pardons-stick-taxpayers-bill-january-6-attack-oversight#:~:text=%E2%80%9COn%20his%20first%20day%20in,insurrection%20at%20the%20U.S.%20Capitol.[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RobGMN, post: 8910318, member: 683408"] Paid and pardoned insurrectionists... [ATTACH type="full" width="517px"]68401[/ATTACH] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7l47xrpko[/URL] [B]“The total cost of the insurrection to the taxpayers is estimated to be $2.7 billion, and that does not account for the lives lost due to the violence that day. Thanks to President Trump’s reckless pardons, convicted rioters can not only walk freely, but they also are no longer required to pay their court-ordered restitutions, much of which was owed directly to your office.”[/B] Restitution was “one of the most common sentences handed down” to January 6th insurrectionists, but offenders were slow to repay their obligations, and taxpayers were “far from being made whole.” A June 2024 CBS News [URL='http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-restitution-capitol-damage/']investigation[/URL] found that only a small fraction—$437,000, which is just 15%—of the nearly $3 million owed in restitution by Jan. 6 offenders for the damage they inflicted on the Capitol had been repaid in the years since the attack. The official numbers from the Architect of the Capitol remain unknown and must be released. The Government Accountability Office [URL='http://www.gao.gov/assets/d23106625.pdf']estimated[/URL] that the true cost to taxpayers was $2.7 billion, a figure that included property damage, expenses incurred by the Capitol Police, the District of Columbia, and federal agencies, and costs to improve security. [URL unfurl="true"]https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/president-trumps-pardons-stick-taxpayers-bill-january-6-attack-oversight#:~:text=%E2%80%9COn%20his%20first%20day%20in,insurrection%20at%20the%20U.S.%20Capitol.[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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