Intelligencer’s Kerry Howley was on a mission: to investigate the lives of three Capitol rioters to find out how they became involved in the January 6 insurrection and what situations they are in now. As she conducted her exploration, Howley discovered one of the rioters is in particularly dire straits, Raw Story reports.

That certainly wasn’t the situation for Gina Bisignano before she was arrested. She led a well-heeled life as the owner of Gina’s Eyelashes and Skincare in the posh community of Beverly Hills. Now she’s facing trial on numerous charges, including Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds to Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building. She has shut down her business and all of her money has been used to fight for her freedom.

Howley notes:

“Two days after the riot, Gina appeared on Infowars to share the video she had taken,” and that helped lead to her arrest.

She was subsequently granted bail but that didn’t last long, and Howley writes that prosecutors appealed, telling the court “Her sincere belief in conspiracy theories and the absence of rational, evidence-based decision-making show that she is extraordinarily unlikely to accept the legitimacy of this court’s orders.” That led a judge to order her bail to be revoked. So she did a stint in a Los Angeles jail perhaps reflecting on her decision to appear on Infowars with a video that landed her there in the first place.

Shortly thereafter she was transported to what can only be described as Spoiled Karen Hell for rich people such as herself: The Grady County Detention Center in Chickasha, Oklahoma. My goodness, who was going to provide her with all her precious cosmetics needs now? Bertha the 350 lb. prison guard?

Anyway, as Howley notes, things have indeed been rough on Bisignano.

“By late February, in Grady County, she had been imprisoned in one facility or another for over a month, during which she saw the sun exactly once: on the long day when she was transferred from L.A. to Oklahoma.”

But then a judge agreed to her supervised release while she awaited trial.

Her situation at this point wasn’t particularly rosy.

“Gina had no ID, no credit card, no way to get home, and it was not clear what she would do on the scrubby, sidewalkless Oklahoma streets onto which she was being dumped.”

Like I said, Bisignano was in spoiled Karen hell.

But fate stepped in, and she wound up being taken in by a woman only known as Rachel, “whose church friend had seen a post on Facebook about a woman who needed help.”

“Rachel took Gina to Sonic and placed a large Diet Coke in her hands before taking her to the 122-acre farm where she lived with her mother and father,” Howley wrote. “Soon Rachel would drive Gina to another home, the home of the friend she knew from Martha Road Baptist Church. In this home, the kitchen would smell of cookies a man had made for his friends at work, a round woman would root around for clothes that would not fit Gina’s slim form, and the couple’s autistic son, David, would give up his bed for her.”

Perhaps Bisignano further reflected on her alleged misdeeds at the Capitol building as her situation continued to unfold in a particularly cheerless fashion.

“Gina had not slept on a mattress in many weeks,” Howley reports. “In too big sweatpants tied at the waist, Gina stood in a boy’s room in rural Oklahoma, beside his bed, under a WWE poster (I’m sure she resonated with that.) She crawled in, pulled the covers up over her head and wept.”

Bisignano received an up-close-and-personal look into the lives of ordinary Americans and it was too close for comfort. Excuse me if I forget to feel sorry for her. Was she so wealthy that she believed her actions would have no consequences? Like the former president she apparently gave everything up for, who probably forgot her name five minutes after he heard it — if he ever heard it?

According to the website for the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., “Defendant remains on home detention. Status conference set for 9/2/21 at 2 p.m.” (Perhaps cases are a bit backed up, hmmm?) Reuters reported on September 16th that a judge refused to end her request to end her house arrest order, meaning, of course, she couldn’t have that ankle monitor removed.

And in an order signed by Judge Carl J. Nichols, Bisignano was scheduled to appear in Court on December 21. The order included an admonishment from the judge because Bisignano and her attorney skipped an appearance scheduled for December 14, noting “This is not the first time timely attendance has been a problem in this case,” and adding “additional failures to appear timely will be looked upon even more unfavorably.”

Perhaps Bisignano believes she’s above all this, that court cases are just for the rabble. The poor and the middle class who do not set foot on the velvet grass of Beverly Hills. And just imagine. She gave up all this for a man who stirred her and thousands of others to lead the attack on the Capitol and then dropped them all like hot potatoes once all was said and done and destroyed.

I wonder if she ever thinks about that.

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