Two Florida men who stormed the U.S. Capitol with other members of the far-right Oath Keepers group were sentenced Friday to three years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other charges.
A timeline of what transpired during the deadly Capitol riot on Jan. 6.Two Florida men who stormed the U.S. Capitol with other members of the far-right Oath Keepers group were sentenced Friday to three years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other charges — the latest in a historic string of sentences in the Jan. 6. 2021 attack.
All told, nine people associated with the Oath Keepers have been tried for seditious conspiracy and six were convicted of the rarely used Civil War-era charge in two separate trials, including the group's founder Stewart Rhodes. Rhodes was sentenced last week to 18 years in prison — a record for a Jan. 6 defendant. Three defendants were cleared of the sedition charge but found guilty of other Jan. 6 crimes.
"The security of our country and the safety of democracy should not hinge on the impulses of madmen," Justice Department prosecutor Troy Edwards said.Capitol Riot: Jacob Chansley, so-called 'QAnon Shaman,' reportedly released from halfway house Moerschel was a neurophysiologist who monitored surgical patients under anesthesia before his arrest, though he's since been fired and now works in construction and landscaping. A former missionary, he is married with three children.
Still, he later attended an "unconventional warfare" training, and in the leadup to Jan. 6 he repeatedly warned other Oath Keepers about "leaks" and the need to secure their communications, and later changed his online screen names, authorities have said. Neither man was a top leader in the group, and both left shortly after Jan. 6. Both sentences were far lower than the 12 years prosecutors sought for Hackett and 10 for Moreschel.
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