2 Brooklyn bozos face Jan. 6 raps
Two Brooklyn buddies were busted Tuesday for joining the Jan. 6 insurrection inside the U.S. Capitol after both were identified from social media and a livestreamed video shot inside the office of an unidentified senator, federal prosecutors announced.
Antonio Ferrigno, 26, and Francis Connor, 23, were linked to the attack on the Washington landmark through Instagram postings from a third suspect and security video from cameras inside the Capitol, according to a 13-page District of Columbia criminal complaint.
The pair were arrested Tuesday morning by the FBI for joining the riot that delayed Senate certification of then-President Trump’s November election defeat to now-President Biden.
And each was charged in a four-count federal criminal complaint with trespassing and disorderly conduct inside the Capitol building.
The video of the two defendants was livestreamed by Anthime Gionet, a prominent alt-right figure known as “Baked Alaska,” the court documents alleged. Ferrigno, spotted wearing a blue Trump hat with matching Trump scarf, later shared a photo with Connor showing the younger suspect climbing out of a Capitol window, the documents charged.
“Maybe if ur clothing wasn’t so distinct people wouldn’t know it was you,” Ferrigno later wrote to Connor about the picture.
The documents included multiple photos of the pair along with a social media admission from Connor that “I was in the Capitol building” — followed later by a warning from the suspect to Ferrigno and co-defendant Anton Lunyk that, “These [photos] can’t go anywhere.”
Ferrigno, in other messages sent between the three men, tried to portray himself as uninvolved. “We were forced into the Capitol,” read one of his Jan. 12 messages.