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Jilly_in_VA

(9,962 posts)
Wed Sep 29, 2021, 02:37 PM Sep 2021

Oath Keepers Had Money Troubles After Capitol Riot

After members of the Oath Keepers appeared on the frontlines of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, the organization’s inboxes were flooded with emails. Some came from prospective members looking to join the group. Others came from members who wanted out.

The would-be Oath Keepers and defectors had a common complaint: They had sent money to the far-right group and never heard from it again.

A cache of internal Oath Keepers emails was made public this week by the transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets. The leak, first reported by The Daily Dot, includes messages from a number of Oath Keepers chapters, as well as inboxes used for the paramilitary group’s recruiting efforts. But some of those recruitment campaigns left prospective members feeling scammed.

One prospective member, Coy Castleberry, gave up on the organization before fully enrolling.

“I still haven’t heard anything on my membership package,” Castleberry wrote the Oath Keepers in March. “Last I was told is it was being put together a month ago or close to a month ago. Let me Know when I can expect it. I won’t contact my local chapter until I have my membership package. So please get that to me. If you don’t want me as a member please refund my membership fee.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/oath-keepers-had-money-troubles-after-january-6-capitol-riot-leaked-emails-show?ref=home
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How delightful!

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Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
2. I have read about this type of falling out among the contemporary KKK grougs...
Wed Sep 29, 2021, 02:41 PM
Sep 2021

those handling the money start pocketing it unsurprisingly...then the groups fall apart completely.

Money keeps these nutjobs dangerous, either they steal from each other or they get sued until defunct.

ZonkerHarris

(24,218 posts)
3. "If this is a bogus organization now, why did you take my money?"
Wed Sep 29, 2021, 02:46 PM
Sep 2021

From a retired Navy commander.
hahahahahahahaha
They took your money BECAUSE they are bogus you idiot moron.
hahahahahahahaha
Must be a very good business, fleecing these right wing rubes.
Hmmm....

Johnny2X2X

(19,024 posts)
5. How is this terrorist organization allowed to keep collecting money?
Wed Sep 29, 2021, 02:52 PM
Sep 2021

Seize their assets and the assets of every single member, before they can kill more Americans.

These are terrorists, and it's about time we start treating them like it.

Champp

(2,114 posts)
6. The only Oaths republicans swear is to grifting
Wed Sep 29, 2021, 02:54 PM
Sep 2021

And surprise, surprise, their little-boy faction is giddily grifty, too.

As an uncountable number of fabulous and famous DUers have 'oft sagely opined about said Republicans, the little boy ones and the big boy ones, too:

Grifters gonna grift.

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