Boastful Trump Appointee Rioter Sentenced To Six Years

November 3, 2023 Crime, Trump cultists

NBC News reports:

A former Donald Trump political appointee at the State Department who tried to storm the Capitol and assaulted law enforcement officers on Jan. 6 was sentenced to 70 months in prison on Friday. Federico Klein was arrested in March 2021 and convicted of eight felonies as well as misdemeanor offenses by U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden, also a Trump appointee, in July 2023 following a bench trial.

The government had sought 10 years in federal prison for Klein, saying he “was likely motivated by a personal benefit — namely, continued employment as a political appointee — when he attacked the U.S. Capitol.” They pointed to messages he sent ahead of Jan. 6 — “Hell yea I’m going. I’m a Trump appointee” — as well as the fact that he “took time off from work at the State Department to volunteer to travel to Las Vegas” to investigate the false claims that the Trump campaign was making about mass voter fraud.

Via press release from the Justice Department:



Federico Klein was convicted of eight felony charges, including six counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and aiding and abetting; obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting; and civil disorder.

Klein was also convicted of misdemeanor offenses of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or building.

Court documents state that Klein entered the tunnel at approximately 2:43 p.m. and began to yell at law enforcement officers, ignored commands to leave, and attempted to grab a police officer riot shield. Klein then used both of his arms and body to forcibly push against police.

As police attempted to close a door to the tunnel, Klein used a stole police riot shield as a wedge to thwart police from closing the door.

Klein joined with other rioters in a concerted “heave-ho” push against the police line in the tunnel. During the “heave-ho” push, a police officer became pinned between the metal doors in the tunnel and a shield held by a co-defendant.

Klein was finally pushed out of the tunnel at approximately 3:19 p.m. and remained near the front of the mob until approximately 4:10 p.m., constantly pushing into the police line using a stolen riot shield.

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