Ray Epps to plead guilty to Jan. 6 misdemeanor in wake of conspiracy theories

Ray Epps, a former Oath Keepers chapter president who urged protesters “to go into the Capitol” on Jan. 6, 2021, is expected to plead guilty to a federal charge of disrupting the certification of the 2020 election — years after other participants in the riot were charged and after rumors circulated that Epps himself was an undercover federal agent. Washington, DC, US Attorney Matthew Graves hit Epps, an ex-leader of the Arizona Oath Keepers, with one misdemeanor count of disorderly or disruptive conduct of government business in a restricted building...