Military veteran and MAGA African-American radio broadcaster Darrell Neely – was re-arrested on November 4, 2024. Reportedly, the Merrick Garland DOJ has told January 6 prosecutors to continue with business as usual and prosecute Trump supporters with no change.
But the Garland DOJ is clearly engaged in an angry, vindictive campaign against January 6 Defendants, “big mad” that all their lawfare smears of Donald Trump failed. Instead, Friday’s hearing sailed through and Judge Bates easily and quickly approved Darrell’s release with the able help of public defender Sandra Roland.
Today, December 14, Darrell is being released (again) from the D.C. Gulag, the jail in Washington, D.C. We did not want to report on this earlier because the DOJ kept the allegations of a probation violation under seal. Observers didn’t know what the charges might be except that his public defender said only that they were “technical” and to plan for him to be back in North Carolina shortly.
So we now have confirmation that there were only trivial and insignificant “technical” allegations about his probation. There were no surprises and no big deal. This, too, is a pattern many are seeing with the bitter clingers at the Biden DOJ. While Federal judges usually do not like having their time wasted, prosecutors are “violating” the probation of January 6 defendants on extremely minor issues that would normally be resolved at the probation officer level.
The only clues we had are that Darrell has been unable to pay restitution of $939.93. Like many others, such as John Mellis, even those with impeccable pre-January 6 work credentials have been unable to rent apartments or get jobs with the stigma of January 6 and/or just any criminal record.