Columbia area man linked to Proud Boys chooses to stay in jail and not seek bond
COLUMBIA, SC -- A Columbia area man who has been linked to the Proud Boys and who is being investigated by the FBI for possibly being in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot has decided to stay in jail rather than try to get out on bail.
The man, James Giannakos, had hearings scheduled in federal court in Columbia Thursday morning where he was to seek bail and to challenge the government’s evidence against him in a case involving threatening telephone calls from a South Carolina phone number to a former federal prosecutor in a case involving a Proud Boys leader.
But records on file in U.S. District Court in South Carolina say Giannakos — who lived in a house in Gilbert in Lexington County — has waived his rights for the time being to any hearings and will stay in jail for the foreseeable future.
Allen Burnside, Giannakos’s federal public defender lawyer, could not be reached for comment. The U.S. Attorney’s Office had no comment on the case.
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