An FBI special agent and federal prosecutors deny allegations from defense attorneys in the Jan. 6 Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial that a paid informant spied on the defendants and their attorneys.
In a declaration filed on March 23 in U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly’s court, FBI Special Agent Kristina Spindel said the bureau never asked the informant in question to monitor the defense teams, and she didn’t provide information on them to the government.
The informant “was not tasked with collecting information on the defendants in the case,” Spindel wrote. “FBI did not ask the CHS-SA [confidential human source] about any knowledge of the defendants, including Enrique Tarrio, or the other defendants in this matter.”…