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White family in financial ruin after ‘aggressive’ FBI honeypot leads to military-style raid
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D. Ray
Nov 29, 2023, 2:25:24 AM11/29/23
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Manchester, Connecticut – A White, working-class family has fallen into
economic hardship after an “aggressive” FBI investigation into their
15-year-old son’s chatroom activities resulted in a military-style raid of
their home. After a lengthy trial process, the family is now turning to the
community for help as they struggle to stay afloat.
According to Jeremiah Rufini, father of a 15-year-old boy who was a member
of a chatroom monitored by federal agents, he has incurred “very
substantial” legal expenses in the aftermath of a politically motivated
investigation. While their son was spared jail time as a result of a
criminal trial, he was ultimately convicted of misdemeanor breach of peace
and sentenced to juvenile probation.
“Our family has unexpectedly incurred very substantial (for us) legal
expenses as the result of an aggressive investigation against our
fifteen-year-old son for posting offensive memes in a private group chat,”
Rufini explained in a GiveSendGo campaign. “While the investigation
resulted in juvenile probation and a minor misdemeanor conviction for
breach of peace, our home was raided by the FBI and we were forced to come
up with thousands of dollars in non-refundable bail money and legal fees.”
“We are a working class family that lives paycheck-to-paycheck, and
bankruptcy is a near certainty. It will be a struggle to keep our home
without help,” he continued.
Rufini went on to describe how their run-in with the FBI began after their
son struggled to cope with a family cancer diagnosis and added household
responsibilities. According to Rufini, the stress from several unrelated
family deaths led their son down a “dark” path of anti-social behavior. In
the end, he was recruited into online “group chats” that targeted “teenage
traditionalist Catholics” with “extreme political content.”
“None of our children, including my son, had been raised with cell
phones…It became necessary for him to have a phone so we could communicate
while he was alone at my father’s house caring for my grandmother,” he
explained. “He spent a lot of time alone with nothing to do but wait and
think…His interests in history and theology led him down a rabbit hole
where he was recruited into group chats targeting teenage traditionalist
Catholics with extreme political content.”
“We later learned that these chats were being closely monitored and
possibly operated by FBI agents as part of an effort to investigate
Traditional Catholics that was downstream of a broader domestic
investigation spurred by the events of January 6th,” he continued.
Rufini claims that after his son joined these dubious chatrooms, he was
asked by anonymous strangers to take pictures of himself spreading
propaganda on picnic tables while wearing ski masks and operating firearms.
After his son became skeptical of the things being demanded of him, he
deleted the chats, sending the FBI into what he calls a “panic.”
“(My son) was being drawn deeper and deeper into these chat groups and
goaded into doing things like take pictures of himself in public wearing
ski masks and (printing) out memes and leave them on picnic tables,” Rufini
claimed. “They would ask him if he had access to guns…and encourage him to
sneak photographs of the guns and post them.”
“Ironically, our legal troubles began when he had an attack of conscience
and abruptly deleted all of his chat apps…The FBI panicked and made the
assumption that he must have connected to a terror cell in real life and
“gone dark” ahead of some potential violent act. There was no such plan and
they had no evidence of one,” he continued.
The behavior being asked of Rufini’s 15-year-old son would closely mimic
that of previous FBI “honeypot” operations like Atomwaffen, the
now-infamous “satanic death cult” run in part by FBI informant Joshua Caleb
Sutter. The FBI would attempt to use Sutter to justify a crackdown against
“white supremacist domestic terrorism” in the United States by transforming
Atomwaffen into a hotbed of terroristic activities and other moral
depravities, mostly involving its youngest members.
Fortunately, while Rufini’s son made it out unscathed, the family’s
dealings with the FBI were just beginning.
“(The FBI) spen(t) two weeks fabricating a legal pretense for a search
warrant of our home. At 10:00pm on a Sunday evening we were dragged out of
our home at gunpoint, handcuffed and locked in a van while they searched
our home for evidence of this imagined plot,” said Rufini. “Having found no
such evidence, they seized my brother’s firearms and had my son
hospitalized on mental health pretenses.”
“We didn’t learn until that night the scope of the investigation or the
amount of time and resources expended on my son. We know him to be a kind
and conscientious boy who is active in his community and church. He is a
volunteer firefighter and altar boy…The response seemed very
disproportionate,” he continued.
According to a bond receipt provided by Jeremiah Rufini on social media,
the family paid a total of $5400 to bail their teenage son out of custody
pending trial. To make matters worse, criminal charges were brought against
not only their son but also Jeremiah and his brother, who once allowed
their son access to family firearms.
“It soon became clear that there was no grand conspiracy or imminent
danger, and the FBI lost interest, but we have been mired in the aftermath
ever since. There was a DCF (Department of Children and Families)
investigation that went nowhere but required us to go to daily appointments
for months,” said Rufini.
“The state brought criminal charges against my son that were eventually
disposed of but required a legal battle that lasted months. When his
charges were disposed of, my brother and I were charged for allowing my son
to target shoot based on the assumption that we must have somehow known
that he was involved in political extremism online. It seems unlikely to
amount to much but has cost us over $20,000 we don’t have so far,” he
continued.
As economic fortunes worsen, Jeremiah Rufini is now turning to the greater
Catholic community and anyone sympathetic to his battle against government
overreach for financial assistance. A selfless worker for a faith-based
non-profit that cares for the homeless, Jeremiah says he has extended his
credit as far as it can go and is worried about mortgage payments as his
family prepares to enter the holiday winter season.
“I have been reluctant to seek help but the threat of losing our home has
become very real…My wife stays at home and home schools our younger
children while managing a small homestead. We are paying legal bills by not
paying other bills. Our credit is extended as far as it can go so our kids
can have Christmas,” he said.
“Our son is racked with guilt and believes himself to be at fault for our
dire financial straits. While it is very humbling for me as someone who has
always provided for others to ask for help, I know it is sometimes
necessary and for us that time has come,” he continued.
To verify the claims, the Justice Report reached out to Aristophanes,
father, veteran, and regular contributor to the Federalist. Most
importantly, he was among the first social media users to spread news of
the Rufini family’s plight and had intimate contact with Jeremiah.
According to him, what was happening to the Rufini’s could only be
considered a “travesty,” and viewed the GiveSendGo campaign as a unique
opportunity for people to fight back against attacks on working-class
Americans and their freedom of political expression.
“If the right wants political change and to be seen as an alternative, the
foundation of any political gains are to be made by showing people who they
can provide for and protect them,” said Aristophanes in a request for
comment on X, formerly Twitter. “I’m glad Rufini’s GiveSendGo is doing
well, because it’s a way for people to put their money where their mouth is
and protect people from the government.”
“(It’s) just a travesty of a situation; we can’t stop the FBI from no-knock
raiding 15-year-olds for logging off to touch grass, but we can try to
bring relief to the victims of that situation,” he said. “If we cannot
shield even one family from this regime, how will we ever prevail against
it?”
An attempt was made to contact the Rufini family by the Justice Report, but
an anonymous source close to the matter advised that the family is not
speaking to the media until it confers with their legal counsel.
The FBI, which has recently faced myriad calls for its complete abolishment
in the face of scandal, corruption, and accusations of anti-White and
anti-Christian bias, has been involved in numerous armed raids against
presumably innocent people. In 2022, a Christian, pro-life activist and his
family were raided by the FBI, an act which caused his wife to suffer from
three miscarriages. An investigative report by journalist Joeseph Jordan
revealed that the FBI complaint that triggered the raid stemmed from a
Jewish, anti-Christian bigot with a concerning social media history.
The story of the Rufini family and its ongoing battle with FBI repression
is ongoing and updates will be provided as they emerge.
Have a story? Please forward any tips or leads to the editors at
justicer...@proton.me
<https://justicereport.news/articles/2023/11/28/white-family-in-financial-ruin-after-aggressive-fbi-honeypot-leads-to-military-style-raid/>
<https://archive.ph/TMSLu>
economic hardship after an “aggressive” FBI investigation into their
15-year-old son’s chatroom activities resulted in a military-style raid of
their home. After a lengthy trial process, the family is now turning to the
community for help as they struggle to stay afloat.
According to Jeremiah Rufini, father of a 15-year-old boy who was a member
of a chatroom monitored by federal agents, he has incurred “very
substantial” legal expenses in the aftermath of a politically motivated
investigation. While their son was spared jail time as a result of a
criminal trial, he was ultimately convicted of misdemeanor breach of peace
and sentenced to juvenile probation.
“Our family has unexpectedly incurred very substantial (for us) legal
expenses as the result of an aggressive investigation against our
fifteen-year-old son for posting offensive memes in a private group chat,”
Rufini explained in a GiveSendGo campaign. “While the investigation
resulted in juvenile probation and a minor misdemeanor conviction for
breach of peace, our home was raided by the FBI and we were forced to come
up with thousands of dollars in non-refundable bail money and legal fees.”
“We are a working class family that lives paycheck-to-paycheck, and
bankruptcy is a near certainty. It will be a struggle to keep our home
without help,” he continued.
Rufini went on to describe how their run-in with the FBI began after their
son struggled to cope with a family cancer diagnosis and added household
responsibilities. According to Rufini, the stress from several unrelated
family deaths led their son down a “dark” path of anti-social behavior. In
the end, he was recruited into online “group chats” that targeted “teenage
traditionalist Catholics” with “extreme political content.”
“None of our children, including my son, had been raised with cell
phones…It became necessary for him to have a phone so we could communicate
while he was alone at my father’s house caring for my grandmother,” he
explained. “He spent a lot of time alone with nothing to do but wait and
think…His interests in history and theology led him down a rabbit hole
where he was recruited into group chats targeting teenage traditionalist
Catholics with extreme political content.”
“We later learned that these chats were being closely monitored and
possibly operated by FBI agents as part of an effort to investigate
Traditional Catholics that was downstream of a broader domestic
investigation spurred by the events of January 6th,” he continued.
Rufini claims that after his son joined these dubious chatrooms, he was
asked by anonymous strangers to take pictures of himself spreading
propaganda on picnic tables while wearing ski masks and operating firearms.
After his son became skeptical of the things being demanded of him, he
deleted the chats, sending the FBI into what he calls a “panic.”
“(My son) was being drawn deeper and deeper into these chat groups and
goaded into doing things like take pictures of himself in public wearing
ski masks and (printing) out memes and leave them on picnic tables,” Rufini
claimed. “They would ask him if he had access to guns…and encourage him to
sneak photographs of the guns and post them.”
“Ironically, our legal troubles began when he had an attack of conscience
and abruptly deleted all of his chat apps…The FBI panicked and made the
assumption that he must have connected to a terror cell in real life and
“gone dark” ahead of some potential violent act. There was no such plan and
they had no evidence of one,” he continued.
The behavior being asked of Rufini’s 15-year-old son would closely mimic
that of previous FBI “honeypot” operations like Atomwaffen, the
now-infamous “satanic death cult” run in part by FBI informant Joshua Caleb
Sutter. The FBI would attempt to use Sutter to justify a crackdown against
“white supremacist domestic terrorism” in the United States by transforming
Atomwaffen into a hotbed of terroristic activities and other moral
depravities, mostly involving its youngest members.
Fortunately, while Rufini’s son made it out unscathed, the family’s
dealings with the FBI were just beginning.
“(The FBI) spen(t) two weeks fabricating a legal pretense for a search
warrant of our home. At 10:00pm on a Sunday evening we were dragged out of
our home at gunpoint, handcuffed and locked in a van while they searched
our home for evidence of this imagined plot,” said Rufini. “Having found no
such evidence, they seized my brother’s firearms and had my son
hospitalized on mental health pretenses.”
“We didn’t learn until that night the scope of the investigation or the
amount of time and resources expended on my son. We know him to be a kind
and conscientious boy who is active in his community and church. He is a
volunteer firefighter and altar boy…The response seemed very
disproportionate,” he continued.
According to a bond receipt provided by Jeremiah Rufini on social media,
the family paid a total of $5400 to bail their teenage son out of custody
pending trial. To make matters worse, criminal charges were brought against
not only their son but also Jeremiah and his brother, who once allowed
their son access to family firearms.
“It soon became clear that there was no grand conspiracy or imminent
danger, and the FBI lost interest, but we have been mired in the aftermath
ever since. There was a DCF (Department of Children and Families)
investigation that went nowhere but required us to go to daily appointments
for months,” said Rufini.
“The state brought criminal charges against my son that were eventually
disposed of but required a legal battle that lasted months. When his
charges were disposed of, my brother and I were charged for allowing my son
to target shoot based on the assumption that we must have somehow known
that he was involved in political extremism online. It seems unlikely to
amount to much but has cost us over $20,000 we don’t have so far,” he
continued.
As economic fortunes worsen, Jeremiah Rufini is now turning to the greater
Catholic community and anyone sympathetic to his battle against government
overreach for financial assistance. A selfless worker for a faith-based
non-profit that cares for the homeless, Jeremiah says he has extended his
credit as far as it can go and is worried about mortgage payments as his
family prepares to enter the holiday winter season.
“I have been reluctant to seek help but the threat of losing our home has
become very real…My wife stays at home and home schools our younger
children while managing a small homestead. We are paying legal bills by not
paying other bills. Our credit is extended as far as it can go so our kids
can have Christmas,” he said.
“Our son is racked with guilt and believes himself to be at fault for our
dire financial straits. While it is very humbling for me as someone who has
always provided for others to ask for help, I know it is sometimes
necessary and for us that time has come,” he continued.
To verify the claims, the Justice Report reached out to Aristophanes,
father, veteran, and regular contributor to the Federalist. Most
importantly, he was among the first social media users to spread news of
the Rufini family’s plight and had intimate contact with Jeremiah.
According to him, what was happening to the Rufini’s could only be
considered a “travesty,” and viewed the GiveSendGo campaign as a unique
opportunity for people to fight back against attacks on working-class
Americans and their freedom of political expression.
“If the right wants political change and to be seen as an alternative, the
foundation of any political gains are to be made by showing people who they
can provide for and protect them,” said Aristophanes in a request for
comment on X, formerly Twitter. “I’m glad Rufini’s GiveSendGo is doing
well, because it’s a way for people to put their money where their mouth is
and protect people from the government.”
“(It’s) just a travesty of a situation; we can’t stop the FBI from no-knock
raiding 15-year-olds for logging off to touch grass, but we can try to
bring relief to the victims of that situation,” he said. “If we cannot
shield even one family from this regime, how will we ever prevail against
it?”
An attempt was made to contact the Rufini family by the Justice Report, but
an anonymous source close to the matter advised that the family is not
speaking to the media until it confers with their legal counsel.
The FBI, which has recently faced myriad calls for its complete abolishment
in the face of scandal, corruption, and accusations of anti-White and
anti-Christian bias, has been involved in numerous armed raids against
presumably innocent people. In 2022, a Christian, pro-life activist and his
family were raided by the FBI, an act which caused his wife to suffer from
three miscarriages. An investigative report by journalist Joeseph Jordan
revealed that the FBI complaint that triggered the raid stemmed from a
Jewish, anti-Christian bigot with a concerning social media history.
The story of the Rufini family and its ongoing battle with FBI repression
is ongoing and updates will be provided as they emerge.
Have a story? Please forward any tips or leads to the editors at
justicer...@proton.me
<https://justicereport.news/articles/2023/11/28/white-family-in-financial-ruin-after-aggressive-fbi-honeypot-leads-to-military-style-raid/>
<https://archive.ph/TMSLu>
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Dec 6, 2023, 2:44:41 PM12/6/23
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this is typical of the rotten FBI, and their moves against the true US
Constitution to turn the United States into a communist start of
Monarchy, and is a violation of the rights of this individual, Under the
second Amendment. The law is clear, it states the FBI is wrong, and
owes apologetic to these people never to question, freedom of speech.
If an action occurs from it, the persons or person is not the be
charged, unless they do the physical action. Everyone is responsible
for their own physical actions, if there is none, there is no charges to
be filed until there is. THIS is correct 2 ammendment law. The charge
they have issued is a monarchy new law, and is against the US
Constitution. You may call them communist the FBI, because that is what
this is. These people should be brought up on charges and jailed, and
their badges removed. There vows the US Constitution are lies, and for
that reason, they are to be removed from government, and jailed yes for
breaking this law.
On 11/29/2023 7:25 AM, D. Ray scribbled:
Constitution to turn the United States into a communist start of
Monarchy, and is a violation of the rights of this individual, Under the
second Amendment. The law is clear, it states the FBI is wrong, and
owes apologetic to these people never to question, freedom of speech.
If an action occurs from it, the persons or person is not the be
charged, unless they do the physical action. Everyone is responsible
for their own physical actions, if there is none, there is no charges to
be filed until there is. THIS is correct 2 ammendment law. The charge
they have issued is a monarchy new law, and is against the US
Constitution. You may call them communist the FBI, because that is what
this is. These people should be brought up on charges and jailed, and
their badges removed. There vows the US Constitution are lies, and for
that reason, they are to be removed from government, and jailed yes for
breaking this law.
On 11/29/2023 7:25 AM, D. Ray scribbled:
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