Prosecutors asked to sentence Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes to 25 years in prison and eight of his followers to 10 years, in the first punishments to be handed down to far-right extremist group members convicted in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
“All nine defendants were active participants in a sweeping conspiracy to oppose by force the lawful transfer of presidential power,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey S. Nestler wrote in a sentencing memo for a five-person prosecution team, asking U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta to apply an enhanced terrorism penalty because the Oath Keepers’ actions were “calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion, or to retaliate against government conduct.
The total now includes 14 Proud Boys or Oath Keepers members who have pleaded guilty to or been convicted of seditious conspiracy. Most recently, four members of the Proud Boys, including former chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, were convicted on Thursday by a different jury in Washington, D.C., of spurring a violent mob to overrun police and enter the building.
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