Joseph Biggs - report

Proud Boys organizer, radio host, and convicted felon

Joseph Randall Biggs, is an American far-right political activist, convicted felon, and a leading figure of the Proud Boys, an all-male neo-fascist organization that engages in political violence. In March 2021, a federal grand jury indicted Biggs for conspiracy in connection with the 2021 United States Capitol attack. He was subsequently indicted on seditious conspiracy charges in June 2022, along with four other Proud Boy leaders, for his role in that attack. In May 2023, a jury found Biggs and three other Proud Boys members guilty of seditious conspiracy. Biggs was sentenced to 17 years in prison on August 31, 2023, one of the stiffest penalties issued so far in the criminal cases stemming from the Capitol attack and among only a handful to have been legally labeled an act of terrorism.