Even though Jason Lee Van Dyke reportedly cut off ties with the Proud Boys in 2018 he still keeps getting linked to them in lawsuits and the media. However, lawyers and journalists don't seem to know or care that Proud Boys International LLC doesn't even exist anymore.
"The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit accusing former president Donald Trump, lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and two extremist groups whose members have been charged in the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol of illegally conspiring to intimidate and block Congress’s certification of the 2020 election," Spencer S. Hsu reported for the Washington Post on Tuesday. "Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) alleged in federal court in Washington that Trump’s and Giuliani’s false claims that the election was stolen fomented a raid that violated the Ku Klux Klan Act, an 1871 law enacted after the Civil War to bar violent interference in Congress’s constitutional duties."
On January 4th, Rachel Sander reported for Forbes, "Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right Proud Boys, was arrested in Washington, D.C. Monday on charges of destruction of property and illegally possessing high capacity magazines, as the city remains on edge with pro-Trump protests planned this week to dispute the 2020 presidential election results."
"The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church filed a lawsuit against the Proud Boys and their leader, Enrique Tarrio, in D.C. Superior Court Monday, saying the group trespassed on its property and destroyed its Black Lives Matter banner," NBC News also reported that same day.
On February 5th, the church filed a motion to get a default judgment against the Proud Boys, even though they don't seem to have made any attempts to contact Tarrio or his criminal lawyer, Lucas Dansie. They only appear to have contacted Van Dyke, who claims he hasn't had anything to do with the Proud Boys since 2018.
"Just like the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, Rep. Thompson and the NAACP are engaged in a publicity stunt," Van Dyke told me in an email. "The existence of Proud Boys International LLC was terminated on 2-12-2021 with the Texas Secretary of State."
Van Dyke added: "The latest lawsuit was filed on 2-16-21. It’s clear that, like MAMEC, the attorneys representing Rep. Thompson couldn’t be bothered to take the time to figure out whether they were suing the correct entity or whether the entity that they were suing even exists. As I have not been associated with the Proud Boys in over two years, I will not be participating in this lawsuit."
"However, if the attention to detail (or lack thereof) shown by Plaintiff’s counsel is any indication of its legal talent, I don’t think it will take President Trump’s legal team very long to prevail," Van Dyke predicts.
Van Dyke further explained: "Proud Boys International LLC was – by agreement – to have been taken over by the then-existing Proud Boys leadership under Chairman Enrique Tarrio in late November of 2018. It never was. It has sat dormant since that time. It has never held any asserts, it held no assets at the time either lawsuit was filed, and it had no assets at the time of its termination. If these attorneys think I am going to waste my time having anything to do with publicity stunts involving an organization I have not been a part of for over two years, they are clearly unfamiliar with both my resolve and my willingness to bill them for wasting my time with this malarkey."
Van Dyke informed the court that he forwarded the service of process "immediately" to Tarrio using the address connected to Warboys LLC. But neither of the lawsuits seem to mention that entity at all in their filings. Warboys LLC is a still active Florida Limited Liability corporation connected to Tarrio, and Proud Boy leaders Ethan Nordean aka Rufio and Joseph Biggs aka Rambo, who were both arrested for entering the US Capitol building on January 6th.
The Washington Post also reported, "Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio called the lawsuit frivolous and doubted it would be allowed to proceed in federal court."
Tarrio claimed: "Were there Proud Boys that went in? Yes, and they’re idiots. They shouldn’t have gone in. But I’m going to support them because they are my brothers. But there was no plan to go into the Capitol. Unfortunately, one of my guys broke a window. Others trespassed. But there was no plan to even interrupt Congress.”
Strangely, the Washington Post didn't even provide a full quote of the sentence that included "frivolous."
However, a BBC report conclusively shows that "the Proud Boys were already heading to the Capitol before President Trump had even spoken at his rally by the White House."
The Washington Post didn't seem to ask Tarrio why the Proud Boys happened to be at the Capitol when it was breached, just like they didn't report that Proud Boys International LLC doesn't even exist anymore.
At his Parler account, a few days ago, Tarrio posted a profane response to the NAACP lawsuit which could come back to haunt him, since he is acknowledging that it exists, and a judge could determine he has been properly served.
Tarrio wrote, "So the NAACP and Congressman Benny Thompson are attempting to sue Me, Trump, Guliani and the OathKeepers....and I couldn’t be more thrilled. A little over a year ago I ran for Congress and bowed out before the primary because of credit card processors. But I would never imagine that retards like this would give me a louder voice."
"At the end, this will be thrown out and I’ll get to say I won in federal court against the NAACP and a retarded Congressman with Donald J Trump as my co-defendant," Tarrio added. "They literately got their asses handed to them last week by a personal injury attorney. Now they’re going to get their shit pushed in by a little brown dude from little Havana."
Tarrio continued: "Sometimes the best weapon against your enemies is ridicule. They want a circus...but they forgot I’m the fucking ringleader. Suck my rebel dick."
Many journalists have done stories about Van Dyke, relying on the claims of convicted felon Tom Retzlaff, but they have ignored that Retzlaff was arrested last year, and faces four felony charges for allegedly forging documents and cyberstalking his daughter. Retzlaff and former Democratic campain worker Neal Rauhauser work together with a racist blog that posts revenge porn, threats, and personal information of their enemies. The blog has also posted my social security number, because I won't stop reporting on the cyberstalking activities of Rauhauser, Retzlaff and the trolls that work with them. Rauhauser and Retzlaff have been pushing outlandish conspiracy theories related to the FBI investigation, calling their critics Proud Boys supporters or snitches, which could be considered witness tampering.