The informant had been set to testify for former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and had met with his lawyers in preparation for testimony. “From our point of view, this is alarming, shocking, troublesome,” Hernandez, who is representing Proud Boy Zachary Rehl, during an emergency hearing on the matter held after the judge canceled testimony for the day. Germany tries to reassure homeowners on heating overhaul

They called suggestions of government misconduct “baseless.” The government only found out from the defense team that the informant had been communicating with the defense and had participated in “prayer meetings” with relatives of at least one of the Proud Boys on trial, prosecutors said. District Judge Timothy Kelly said there’s no clear evidence of wrongdoing by the government and allowed the trial to continue Friday, but is also set to hear additional arguments about how deeply enmeshed the informant was with the case. The FBI ended its relationship with the informant this past January after it learned that the person had received a subpoena to testify, an agent said in an affidavit filed in court. WASHINGTON (AP) - As revelations that a defense witness was also an FBI informant roil the already contentious Capitol riot trial of members of the far-right Proud Boys group, prosecutors said Thursday that the informant was never told to gather information about the defendants or their lawyers.

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