‘Grave matter’: White supremacist-turned-FBI informant gets suspended sentence on N.Y. weapons charge

Michael Alan Jones, a former Proud Boy and self-admitted paid FBI informant, is a free man after a federal judge issued a suspended sentence with two years of supervised release — a lighter-than-anticipated punishment — for illegally possessing a firearm as a felon. Judge David G. Larimer cited a leg infection Jones developed as a reason for departing from the sentencing guideline range calling for 24-30 months in prison, as the government had requested. Jones' infection nearly resulted in an amputation. Jones' lawyer cited his client's work for the FBI as a paid informant as evidence of his r…

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