Tag Archives: Capitol Riots

The Insider reports: Several would-be Republican lawmakers are riding 2020 election falsehoods all the way to the ballot box this November, where at least seven people who say they were at or near the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, are seeking to join the very institution that was attacked by a mob of Trump supporters nearly two years ago. …

NBC News reports: “I felt it was like a Bastille-type moment in history,” Graydon Young told jurors in the seditious conspiracy trial of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four other members of the organization. “I thought that I participated in something that was potentially a historically significant event.” Young, who previously pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy and obstruction of …

NBC News reports: An elected official in Connecticut has admitted publicly for the first time that he entered the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. Gino DiGiovanni, a GOP alderman in Derby, was interviewed by an NBC Connecticut reporter after online sleuths investigating the attack on the Capitol told NBC News they had identified him as one of the …

Courthouse News reports: Just weeks out from Enrique Tarrio’s seditious conspiracy trial in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, the leader of the far-right Proud Boys told a federal judge that he can’t get a fair trial in Washington. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly appeared unlikely to grant the motion, however, telling Tarrio’s attorney that he faced an …

From the Justice Department: A Virginia man pleaded guilty today to felony charges for destroying media equipment and other illegal conduct during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential …

The Insider reports: A jury found former Capitol police officer Michael Riley guilty Friday of obstructing the investigation into the January 6, 2021, attack on the building he was once sworn to protect, handing the Justice Department a victory in a unique and high-profile prosecution stemming from the insurrection. The verdict came a year after Riley’s indictment on charges he …

From the Justice Department: Joshua Munafo, 35, most recently of Winter Park, Florida, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff to 24 months in prison and three years’ supervised release for threatening emergency dispatch personnel and tying up an emergency phone line for three hours. On January 5, 2021, Munafo called the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office demanding to …

The Associated Press reports: A Tennessee man who dragged a police officer into a mob of rioters, initiating one of the most harrowing acts of violence during the U.S. Capitol attack, was sentenced on Thursday to more than seven years in prison. Albuquerque Cosper Head declined to address the court before U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced him to …

Politico reports: One of the first rioters to breach the Capitol on Jan. 6 has been sentenced to 24 months in prison for barging through a shattered window and helping chase a police officer near the Senate chamber. Hunter Seefried watched as another rioter — Proud Boy Dominic Pezzola — used a police shield to shatter a Capitol window, triggering …

Newsweek reports: Senator Ted Cruz has revealed he was in a “a supply closet with stacked chairs” during part of the January 6 storming of Congress. Cruz, who opposed the certification of election results from Arizona, describes the day’s events in his new book Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System. Cruz said Senators were led to a …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump held his first rally since being subpoenaed in the congressional investigation into January 6 on Saturday, where the enthusiastic crowd interrupted him by breaking out in song. When attempting to bring up the January 6th committee’s supposed faults, the president was interrupted by his own audience which spontaneously launched into a rendition of the Star …

NBC News reports: A self-described “loudmouth” who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 after climbing up a wall and entering the building through a door with a broken window as an alarm blared was sentenced to four years in federal prison on Friday. Matthew Bledsoe of Tennessee, who said “Where are those pieces of shit at?” as he entered …

NBC News reports: A Donald Trump supporter who brought two guns to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and dropped one of them on Capitol grounds, was sentenced to five years in federal prison on Friday. Mark Mazza was sentenced to 60 months behind bars by Judge James E. Boasberg. Before he was sentenced, Mazza told the court he got “caught …

CNBC reports: Former President Donald Trump was issued a subpoena Friday by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. It is not clear whether Trump will comply with the subpoena. The committee, which voted unanimously on the move, is demanding Trump’s testimony under oath and records relevant to the probe into the attack on …

Law & Crime reports: One of the faces in the pro-Trump crowd captured by a professional photographer on Jan. 6 who online sleuths referred to as #Midwhitecrisis has now been identified as a Long Island lawyer, the feds say. John L. O’Kelly, a 66-year-old East Williston, New York resident, faces several charges for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 …

The Guardian reports: Lachlan Murdoch’s application to have parts of Crikey’s defence about Fox News’s role in the January 6 riot dismissed has failed in a pre-trial hearing in the federal court. In August the co-chair of News Corp filed proceedings for defamation against the Australian independent news site over an article by its politics editor, Bernard Keane, headlined “Trump …

Law & Crime reports: On the west side of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes appeared to gloat on tape about the prospect of lawmakers quaking in fear about the breach of Congress by the pro-Trump mob. “They need to shit their fucking pants,” Rhodes could be heard saying in footage entered into evidence on …

“This week, a 24-year old former UCLA student called Christian Secor was sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison. |Now by Merrick Garland’s standards, that’s a very long time. Even people who commit acts of terrorism don’t spend that long in jail. “For example, Christian Secor will spend far more time behind bars than the two attorneys …

NBC News reports: The Biden administration says it is in critical need of more money to bring the Jan. 6 rioters to justice. But it’s not clear Congress will grant that request in a major funding bill planned for December. And if it fails to do so before the new year, a potential Republican-led House could imperil the resources they …

ABC News reports: The Jan. 6 committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol has yet to formally subpoena former President Donald Trump, in part because investigators are still trying to find someone authorized to accept service of it. Last week, the committee took the historic step of voting to subpoena the former president, with all nine members of the …