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A 37-year-old man accused of "viciously" assaulting law enforcement officers during the attack on the US Capitol in January 2021 has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, the Department of Justice (DoJ) said on Friday. David Dempsey had previously pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement with a dangerous weapon during the January 6 attack on the US Congressional seat in Washington. He was sentenced to 240 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release and ordered to pay $2,000 by US District Judge Royce C. Lamberth. "[Dempsey's] actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint sessio...
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The Department of Justice filed notice of its plan to seek harsher prison sentences for five members of the Proud Boys, who were incarcerated for their participation in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The DOJ is calling on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to extend sentences for the leaders of the right-wing group: Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, Dominic Pezzola and Ethan Nordean. Officials had originally asked for 33-year sentences for Tarrio and Biggs, 30-year sentences for Rehl, 27 sentences for Nordean and 20 years for Pezzola. Instead, U.S. Dist...
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Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer who is accused of participating in a plot to overturn the election results in favor of former President Donald Trump, accepted a plea agreement in Georgia on Friday. He is one of 19 co-defendants, including Trump himself, in the case. A day before Chesebro’s admission of guilt, Sidney K. Powell, another Trump-affiliated lawyer, also pleaded guilty and agreed to work with the prosecution. Although they both originally requested a speedy trial, they have now decided to plead guilty prior to the start of the trial. The trial will no longer take place. Chesebro’s plea de...
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On September 28, Christopher Worrell, 52, a member of the right-wing extremist group the Proud Boys, was arrested by the FBI for his role in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Worrell, a resident of Naples, Florida, had disappeared in August just before he was set to be sentenced for several felonies he was convicted of over his conduct during the riot. In May 2023, a judge found Worrel guilty of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers with dangerous weapons and obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress. He was also found guilty of obstructing, impeding or interfering with of...
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Ray Epps, a January 6 rioter and victim of conspiracy theorists, was charged with a count of disorderly conduct. Epps has been accused of “knowingly, and with intent to impede and disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business and official functions, engage in disorderly and disruptive conduct.” Additionally, he will be charged for “impeding and disrupting the orderly conduct of Government business and official functions, and attempts and conspired to do so.” “I never intended to break the law,” Epps said in a statement. “I never intended to break the law. It’s not in my DNA. I’ve never – ...
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Freshman Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wisconsin) yelled at a group of high school-aged Senate pages while giving a tour of the U.S. Capitol earlier this month. The Senate’s page program invites teenagers to intern at Capitol Hill and allows them to complete menial tasks for lawmakers, such as preparing the chamber for sessions and carrying bills and amendments on the floor. They are usually nominated by their home state senator. Van Orden reportedly saw some of the students lying on their backs in the Capitol Rotunda after hours, taking photos of the building’s dome. According to a transcript tak...
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Peter Stager, a truck driver who assaulted a police officer at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was sentenced to 52 months in federal prison. Stager was part of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 in protest of the results of the 2020 election. He was captured on video beating police officer Blake Miller with a flagpole and was one of nine men charged with assaulting Miller and two of his colleagues. After assaulting Miller, prosecutors said that Stager was captured on video, pointing to the Capitol and yelling: “Everybody in there is a disgrace. That entire building is filled wi...
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Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in court on Thursday to all four charges relating to the investigation into a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021, Capital riot. The four charges he is facing have differing years in prison and fines. The first charge is conspiracy to defraud the U.S., which carries a maximum of five years in prison and/or a fine of $250,000. The second is a conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, punishable by a fine of $250,000 and up to 20 years in prison. The third is obstruction of an official proceeding which carries a fine of $250,000 ...
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Richard “Bigo” Barnett was sentenced to four years and a half years in prison for his participation in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Barnett became one of the faces of the insurrection after being photographed with his feet resting on Nancy Pelosi‘s (D-California) desk. Barnett was convicted on eight charges in January. The charges included disorderly conduct while carrying a dangerous weapon, obstruction of an official proceeding, and mail theft. He faced up to 20 years in prison. The court outlined Barnett’s actions in the former Speaker’s office. Barnett spent 10 minutes in ...
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Former President Donald Trump has blamed his Vice President Mike Pence for the violence during the January 6 Capitol insurrection. Trump claimed that Pence’s unwillingness to support his scheme, based on lies about election fraud, fomented the political violence. “Had he sent the votes back to the legislators, they wouldn’t have had a problem with January 6,” Trump told the press corps during a flight to a campaign event in Iowa. “So, in many ways, you can blame him for January 6.” Trump’s rhetoric on the way to the campaign events grabbed national headlines. Trump followed the attack on Pence...
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