Enrique Tarrio, former Proud Boys leader, serving 22 years for seditious conspiracy, has his lawyer seeking a pardon from Trump. The letter argues Tarrio is a victim of mischaracterization and blames Trump's rhetoric for the Capitol riot.
Enrique Tarrio , who is serving the longest Jan. 6 sentence given to a Capitol defendant to date, was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in planning the riot. The former Proud Boys chairman is serving 22 years in federal prison after being convicted of seditious conspiracy in relation to the Jan. 6 attack. In May 2023, Tarrio received 22 years in prison, the longest Jan. 6 sentence to date, though he was not in Washington for the attack itself.
He had been arrested and ordered to stay away from the capital city and was convicted of planning and organizing Proud Boys members to assault the Capitol in the lead-up to Jan. 6. Tarrio's lawyer, Nayib Hassan, wrote a letter to Trump on the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack asking for “a full and complete Presidential Pardon” from the president-elect who has vowed to pardon some rioters after he takes office on Jan. 20. In the letter, Hassan called the 42-year-old Tarrio a “young man with an aspiring future ahead of him” who was “portrayed throughout the Government’s case as a right-wing extremist that promoted a neo-fascist militant organization” when, Hassan claimed, Tarrio is “nothing more than a proud American that believes in true conservative values.” At Tarrio's trial, Hassan had blamed Trump for his client's and other Proud Boys' actions, reminding jurors that Trump said his supporters should “fight like hell” or they were not “going to have a country anymore. He also argued that Tarrio was arrested in connection with a separate event — the December 2020 burning of a Black Lives Matter banner — just before the Jan. 6 attack. The top intelligence official in the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington was leaking information to Tarrio, telling him just before Jan. 6, 2021, that there was a warrant out in Washington for his arrest. As a result, Tarrio watched Jan. 6 unfold from afar
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