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peter, talk us through this decision, 22 years behind bars. yes, this is the longest sentence of all of the proud boys sent to prison over the last four days, there were four people at the end of last week and now we have this sentence for what the judge described as the ultimate leader of the conspiracy, the leader of the proud boys, the person who was really at the centre of the conspiracy, the organisational centre of that assault on the us capitol. he and others from the proud boys shortly after the proud boys shortly after the 2020 election, during that period before january the 6th when there was uncertainty over what was going to happen, but he and others were sending it social media messages threatening that there would be violence if donald trump left office. and then on the day, as you say, he was not actually in washington because he had been stopped by the police two days earlier in possession of high capacity ammunition, which is against the law in washingt ....
of economic advisors. thank you for being with us on bbc news. what does this tell us? it suggests consumer spending is still pretty resilient right now? i suggests consumer spending is still pretty resilient right now? pretty resilient right now? i think it is resilient, pretty resilient right now? i think it is resilient, but pretty resilient right now? i think it is resilient, but let s pretty resilient right now? i think it is resilient, but let s be - pretty resilient right now? i think it is resilient, but let s be clear, l it is resilient, but let s be clear, the number of 65 billion is lower than what most economists had predicted the average expectation was, that was on the order of 68 billion. ithink it was, that was on the order of 68 billion. i think it is good news for mr powell and the other global central bank shares syria s meeting with. the economy is resilient but it is a step and we are all looking at it and the other global central bank sha ....
that time, there was notjust the furlough scheme but also grants administered by local authorities, now because there was a fear that so many businesses fell over, speed was prioritised over the normal anti fraud controls, you can t be bothered with the normal underwriting if you need to get the money out by the day, by the week, and so there were 20 people looking after this at the department for business enterprise and innovation and skills at the time, just 20 people, throwing money out there, so for example, there were 6 billion distributed injust for example, there were 6 billion distributed in just the first few weeks via local authorities, but there are problems which we now know about like for example it will local authorities databases of businesses, were out of date so sometimes that money went to businesses that didn t exist or to accounts that businesses no longer had, or, to businesses that were receiving the money on a fraudulent basis and what the mps are bothe ....