Proud Boys member gets 7-year term for federal gun crimes in Albany

ALBANY — Jonathan Cuney is a combat Marine, Purple Heart recipient and father of four children.

The former East Greenbush man is also a convicted gun trafficker, maker of “ghost guns” and, according to federal prosecutors in Albany, a member of the Proud Boys, a far-right nationalist group.

The 38-year-old Iraq war veteran's affiliation with the Proud Boys, which the Southern Poverty Law Center considers a hate group, was highlighted in a prosecutor’s sentencing memo to Senior U.S. District Judge Frederick Scullin. The judge sentenced Cuney Thursday for the defendant’s guilty plea earlier this year to unlawfully possessing guns. As a felon — in 2015, Cuney was convicted of federal gun possession in White Plains after selling guns to an undercover agent — Cuney was prohibited from possessing a firearm.

"The defendant describes his involvement with the Proud Boys as limited to: ‘hanging out with the boys at bars’ and ‘talking about politics’ in the Troy and Schenectady areas,'" Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Barnett told the judge in a sentencing memo that asked Scullin to impose a 63-month prison term (just over five years) on Cuney, followed by three years of supervised federal release.

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I have a friend that lives in Schenectady who will be pleased that he doesn't need to be concerned about seeing this idiot around town for awhile.