While these numbers represent just a fraction of the criminal cases to date, they have already become a template for future sentences a foundation that is likely to solidify further as more and more cases reach their conclusion. ; No, there are not hundreds of Capitol riot defendants in DC jail. He also tried to throw a speaker at the police, but. The House committee overseeing the January 6 investigation has issued over 100 subpoenas to people including members of Congress like then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, White House officials like former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and former chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump himself. Why were they not mentioned in Trumps new announcement for his 2024 plans. Inside the jail, some inmates said they have faced blowback for speaking to NPR and have been labeled "snitches" or federal informants. Standing by is the ACLJ, who meets with each wrongfully imprisoned J6-er and begins to file a case on behalf of each prisoner individually, and collectively as a class action against DC Govt the Capitiol Police, the C^^IA, and F^^BI. You didnt just come up and sock a guy in the face, Lamberth said at the sentencing. The House of Representatives narrowly voted to create a commission on June 30, 2021. Your news.Sign up for the Capitol Breach email newsletter, delivering the latest breaking news and a roundup of the investigation into the Capitol Riots on January 6, 2021. Consider the 6th Amendment. Download the apps today for live newscasts and video on demand. It is to focus on a simple idea due process and rule of law. But prison time may be another story. The time is now to insist on that standard and proof of it. But a few dozen (the precise number has fluctuated) were incarcerated in the city where the Jan. 6 attack took place, in Washington, D.C.'s Correctional Treatment Facility. Curzio, age 35 at his sentencing, was released from prison in July. Michael Nigro/Pacific Press:LightRocket/Getty. Topline Friday marks the two year anniversary of the infamous Jan. 6 attack where pro-Trump supporters invaded the U.S. Capitol, ransacking the building and forcing Congress to seek safety.. Kash Kelly said it was false to claim anyone in C2B was a white supremacist. Weiss, 61, will be required to register as a sex offender for 25 years. Elizabeth Warren and . Coffman drove to Capitol Hill from Alabama on Jan. 6, 2021, in a pickup truck loaded with powerful weapons, and is believed to have been the most heavily armed defendant during the attack. "I stopped caring about politics because that's what got me incarcerated," said one inmate, "and I don't ever want to be a pawn in someone else's game again." Theyd rather that than sit in DC?! By April 2022, the group announced it had raised almost $1.2 million. Read More: For the Jan. 6 Rioters, Justice Is Still Coming. According to Justice Department officials, more than 140 federal prosecutors have been working on cases related to the January 6 attack in concert with FBI agents from all 50 states in the year. The FBI discovered texts in which he threatened to assassinate Pelosi and District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser. I need the name and address of every prisoner still being held in the D.C. gulag as I want to write each of them personally and tell them they are not forgotten and we will overcome this evil, Patriotmailproject.com (to contact the prisoners) The median prison sentence was 45 days, as of Jan. 1. Fellows, however, calls Jan. 6 "the best day of my life. The point of this piece is not to relitigate the protest, election, charges, or anything to do with politics. We fn disarm them and then we storm the fn Capitol.. It could have been any one of us! "I don't know where we would be if we didn't have that support," said the wife of another detainee. While she was inside the Capitol, Courtright, then age 23 and a senior at the University of Kentucky, took a photo of herself in a mirror and afterward posted it to Instagram, along with the words, INFAMY IS JUST AS GOOD AS FAME. She shared her participation in the riot on Instagram multiple times, and someone took a screenshot and reported her. Smocks has a "lengthy criminal history," according to prosecutors, and has previously been convicted of bank fraud, forgery and other offenses. (It works for criminals, we can force it for our fellow patriots!) She pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and admitted to unlawfully entering the Capitol and. At the time of his arrest, he bore tattoos with Nazi symbology associated with that gang and was wearing a necklace with a Thors-hammer pendant, the Justice Department wrote. Probation/supervised release: These two categories are functionally similar, though supervised release is typically in conjunction with a prison term. Supporters of Patriot Freedom Project have suggested that undermines his credibility. "I truly commend Cindy for stepping up to the plate and helping out these patriot families when no one else was there for them," he said. e: and that's only if the shaman sits out his full sentence, but even then he's out in 2025 itself. ), One detainee compared the situation to "the movie Mean Girls, but with racist, antisemitic extremists.". I hope my search (for a list) produces good fruit. Another said he would never go to another political rally in his life. They frame conservatives to destroy them. Some inmates said the jokes could be brutally mean. Jacob Anthony Chansley inside the Senate Chamber. Crowd shortly after the breach (top); tear gas deployed against rioters (bottom left); gallows erected by rioters (bottom right). In December, she was sentenced to one month in prison. HE HAS. Legal . I will see them All pardoned and free again living in a bettet America than ever before. Boasberg referenced his disbelief in that case during a December sentencing in which the government likewise did not seek incarceration for Gary Edwards, who illegally entered the Capitol and the office of Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.). He also tried to throw a speaker at the police, but missed and ended up injuring another rioter. Department of Justice That is exactly what we should all be doing, putting the truth of events out there constantly, exposing corruption Democrats and RINOs, putting the history of our founding, the writings of the Founders, the history of the world and exposing how it is repeating. On April 6, the California Department of Justice sent a second letter to the organization saying it must provide records within 30 days or potentially lose tax-exempt status in the state. No one arrested for being in the Capitol on January 6th has been charged with insurrection, sedition or anything even close to toppling the government. In December 2022, the January 6 committee referred Trump to the Justice Department and recommended four charges: obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the U.S., inciting an insurrection and conspiracy to make false statements. Jan. 6 defendant Kash Kelly, who is Black, told Hughes that it was false to claim anyone in C2B was a white supremacist. The combination of a court backlogged with COVID-19-related delays, plus the lumbering nature of a massive federal criminal investigation, has stretched the "pretrial" period to as long as a year or more for some detainees. Jacob Lang, who has pleaded not guilty to allegations that he assaulted police with a shield and a bat, praised Hughes and Patriot Freedom Project for providing support to some families and defendants. Department of Justice The atmosphere has grown tense as they await their trials. This can not stand! Some of those trials are months,. The attack resulted in deaths, injuries, more than 700 arrests and Trump's second impeachment. <3 <3. The Florida man who hurled wooden boards and a fire extinguisher at police officers guarding the Lower West Terrace tunnel of the Capitol was sentenced to more than five years in federal prisonthe longest sentence given to anyone charged in the Jan. 6 riot. But then Fellows said he found out the group, led by Cynthia Hughes of New Jersey, was going to pick and choose which defendants and families to support. Insider's database has been updated accordingly. ", "Tempers naturally get short," he said, with "cliques solidifying further into independent 'camps' as time progresses.". "I just don't negotiate with terrorists," he said. Neither Hughes nor Kelly specified exactly which people they were talking about. ), A particular sore point for some of the inmates of C2B is fear that donations are distributed through "favoritism.". Update 5/2/2021: The Department of Justice originally listed Jared Adams as a defendant who pleaded guilty, but the DOJ later corrected its website to say Adams pleaded not guilty for his charges. But that leaves nearly half a million dollars yet to be disbursed a major point of frustration as trials for many defendants begin. In all, a dozen current and former inmates of C2B said they wanted the Patriot Freedom Project to be more transparent. There are more than 725 people who have been arrested for crimes tied to the assault on the Capitol and investigations are still ongoing, and more than one-tenth of those 87 have been sentenced as of Jan. 21. The exterior of the Washington, D.C., jail where a group of defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are detained. "Being incarcerated with a group of people who are from vastly different backgrounds, income brackets, education levels and viewpoints compounded with the stress of solitary confinement, being away from our loved ones and looking down the barrel of 6- to 15-year prison sentences is very stressful, so naturally there is going to be tension," said one inmate, who asked to speak anonymously to discuss the conditions inside the jail. Anna Morgan-Lloyd is the first defendant to be sentenced in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The Bill of Rights notwithstanding, many charged individuals remain untried, still mysteriously detained? Some online commenters picked up on the political prisoner theme, while others doubled down on the "hundreds" claim, referencing those still detained in the DC Department of Corrections without bond before their trial. At least 73 rioters have been sentenced so far after pleading guilty to the charges against them. The people that have received aid from the Patriot Freedom Project have praised the group effusively. Most recent update: Jan. 21. There are more than a dozen defendants who have pleaded guilty to felonies who have yet to be sentenced including some who have been cooperating with investigators. This searchable table shows them all. He donated $100,000 to the Patriot Freedom Project, an organization that is providing financial help to Jan. 6 defendants. Some of the charges include obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds and forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding federal officers. Second, reporters, family, friends, and concerned citizens should be able to meet with these indefinitely detained individuals. A little over half of defendants who have pleaded guilty are still awaiting sentencing, and some of the most serious cases of violence against police officers are still awaiting their fate, so the length of prison time for the most serious offenders may change. Prosecutors describe Timothy Hale-Cusanelli as a white supremacist and "Nazi sympathizer" who went to work with a "Hitler mustache." He also posted a video of himself smoking a joint on Snapchat with the caption Smoke out the Capitol, baby.. Jail Were Ignored Until Jan. 6 Defendants Came Along, The Crisis at the D.C. Reports flow in through family, friends, official and credible channels that these detainees are isolated, living in poor conditions, cannot meet with reporters, are increasingly invisible, just forgotten people. 1TRAVERSE CITY A Traverse City man awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots. Of the dozens of people who have been sentenced, fewer than half have received prison time for their actions in the days surrounding the riot. He said he expected the funds to be distributed equally among all of the jailed Jan. 6 defendants. See, e.g., Capitol Breach Cases; One Year Since the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol; At least 800 people have been charged in the Capitol insurrection so far. He faces up to 25 years in prison, although prosecutors plan to recommend a sentence of 41 to 50 months because he agreed to cooperate with law enforcement. Dr. Keena Blackmon Public Information Officer, D.C. Department of Corrections. 2023 TIME USA, LLC. A POLITICO analysis of every sentence to date in the Capitol riot shows that judges have been wary about imposing long prison terms except when violence, or the threat of it, was involved. He was ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. The harmless activity is shown. They said they were concerned that the jail grievance system could be used to retaliate against them. Many hospitals still requiring even people with open cannulas to wear masks over their faces. Recently, the Patriot Freedom Project launched its own podcast and appeared to address the allegations against Hale-Cusanelli. We hear of these nameless individuals all the time but no names, charges or detention locations given. On the Patriot Freedom Project's own podcast, Hughes was more defiant in her defense against critics of the group, saying: "They don't affect me because my work speaks for itself.". Jon Schaffer, a guitarist who founded the metal band Iced Earth, was thefirst person to file a guilty pleaand agree to cooperate with prosecutors,according to Department of Justice filings. Who are they and what are they charged with? Meredith traveled from Colorado to attend the Stop the Steal rally that led to the attempted insurrection at the Capitol, but later told investigators that he arrived too late in the evening. Judges have a broad amount of latitude to impose sentences as they see fit. Hale-Cusanelli's defense attorney is actually court-appointed, and so the government not Patriot Freedom Project pays for Hale-Cusanelli's defense. Prosecutors said Fellows harassed his probation officer and ignored court orders. The District's Department of Corrections decided for the inmates' "own safety and security" to detain all of the Jan. 6 defendants in just one part of the facility, a section known as C2B. But other inmates said they were concerned they had to "suck up" to Hale-Cusanelli to get access to donations. In his truck, investigators found a small arsenal of molotov cocktails, a 9mm handgun, a rifle, a shotgun, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, large-capacity ammunition feeding devices, a crossbow with bolts, machetes, camouflage smoke detectors and gas-filled Mason jars used to make napalm (a kind of homemade bomb). He donated $100,000 to the Patriot Freedom Project, an organization that is providing financial help to Jan. 6 defendants. Current and former inmates said prosecutors' description of Hale-Cusanelli is consistent with what they witnessed in jail. Jail Were Ignored Until Jan. 6 Defendants Came Along; The Crisis at the D.C. Luke Michael Lints, 28, appeared in the U.S. District Court . They cannot be detained and forgotten, not in America. "I started Patriot Freedom Project to help the J6 prisoners and their families," Hughes wrote, in part, in a statement to NPR. That should not be hard. The main driver of this conflict, according to C2B inmates, along with their attorneys and family members, is the growing pool of money donated in the name of the Jan. 6 defendants. Federal prosecutors say Barnett deleted all of his iCloud data related to the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to a recent court filing. Would love your thoughts, please comment. The record is strangely incomplete, access restricted, word barely getting out, and what we know is not reassuring. No, there are not "hundreds" of Capitol Riot defendants still being detained in the DC Department of Corrections. Judges have waived, or declined to impose, fines on some less-affluent defendants during their sentencing. He has pleaded not guilty and denied the allegations. Once this was exposed to the nation, the Democrats had to retreat and rebuild using a different strategy hiding their true intent in bills with wonderful names all were traps to continue their drive for total control. Three sources, who requested anonymity due to fear of retaliation, claimed Hughes had discussed taking legal action against a Jan. 6 defendant for criticizing the group one of the "patriots" referenced in the group's name. Department of Justice What are the names of these prisoners, the charges, and where are they being held? 50 years later, Democrats are using the same old tactics. Around six dozen defendants who have been charged in Jan. 6 cases remain jailed awaiting trial, according to an Associated Press tally. Members of Congress, notably Republicans, have decried conditions are intolerable. Assistance of Counsel Occurring? The median age of the defendants is 39, with over 86% identifying as male and the majority coming from Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York and California, according to George Washington University's Project on Extremism. Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images, Experts see 'red flags' at nonprofit raising big money for Capitol riot defendants, A controversial nonprofit for Capitol riot defendants makes changes after criticism, The Capitol siege: The cases behind the biggest criminal investigation in U.S. history. Barnett, age 60 at the time of his arrest, is scheduled to stand trial on Sept. 6 and could face a sentencing of up to 87 months in prison if he is found guilty on all charges. What is going on? The organizers of the Justice for J6 Rally" have repeatedly referenced hundreds of Americans being detained in jail, going so far as to call those arrested for crimes Jan. 6 "political prisoners. All Rights Reserved. It seems as if our nations capital has been hijacked by rogue actors who operate apart from and in opposition to the constitution thats supposed to protect us, who are accountable only to themselves, and who are legally untouchable. When Brandon Fellows first arrived in C2B in the summer of 2021, he hoped to find camaraderie with his fellow "patriots," as he calls them. According to a Department of Justice database, there have been about 978 people charged and arrested with multiple crimes related to the attack. Heres a list of the people who have been subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 committee. State regulators in a handful of states have said they're looking into whether the group is complying with state charity registration requirements. Fellows is not alone in his frustration. Sign up for the Get Up DC newsletter:Your forecast. Following his prison term, Miller will be placed on 24 months of supervised release and must pay $2,000 in restitution. There have been rioters arrested in nearly all 50 states, and over 260 of them have been charged with more serious crimes relating to assaulting or impeding law enforcement, according to the DOJ. 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