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Ray Epps sentenced as Jan 6 conspiracy theories continue to dominate his life

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A man whose life was upended by right-wing conspiracy theories accusing him of being a federal agent assigned to entrap Donald Trump’s supporters has been sentenced to one year of probation for crimes connected to the January 6 attack.

Ray Epps received a sentence of 12 months of probation on 9 January after pleading guilty to a charge of disorderly or disruptive conduct for joining a mob in Washington DC and encouraging rioters to march to the US Capitol, where the former president’s loyalists stormed the halls of Congress to reject the results of the 2020 .

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