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pipistrelle wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 8:20 am Poor guy lost his military pension. Would a pardon get it back? I hope not.

Maybenaut wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 9:09 am Even if a pardon restores a military pension, if my experience with the Defense Finance Accounting Service is any guide, they’d have to fight long and hard to get it back. In many cases our clients got their sentences reduced or their convictions overturned, and should have resulted in back pay. And there’s supposedly a process for claiming it but I’ve never seen it actually work. That was a long time ago and things may have improved somewhat, but…

Brandi Buchman
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NOW: Henry "Enrique" Tarrio is sentenced to 22 YEARS in prison and 36 mos. supervised release.

‘I am not a political zealot’
Before he was sentenced, Tarrio apologized for the “pain and suffering” that law enforcement, legislators, and others suffered on January 6, and vowed to have “nothing to do with politics, groups, activism or rallies.”

“I have always tried to hold myself to a higher standard and I failed,” he said. “I held myself morally above others, and this trial has shown me how wrong I was.”

Standing before the judge in an orange jumpsuit, Tarrio said that he “spent the last year and a half trying to figure out how I ended up at this podium. On November 3, 2020, something that I never expected happened – my candidate lost. I felt like something was personally stolen from me. Every media channel that I turned to told me I was justified.”

But, Tarrio said, he was against the violence that erupted at the Capitol: “I am not a political zealot. Inflicting harm or changing the outcome of the election was not my goal.”

Prosecutor Conor Mulroe slammed Tarrio, saying that the Proud Boys leader had a “toxic ability to control others” and was the “leader of this conspiracy” that “targeted our entire system of government.”

Mulroe described Tarrio as someone with a “toxic ability to control others” who “increased his own fame and stature by fanning the flame of violence, political violence.”

“These are men who would never strap a bomb to their chest or sign up for a training camp, but they are thrilled by the notion of traveling from city to city and beating their advisories senseless in a street fight,” Mulroe said.

The Proud Boys organization, led by Tarrio, “were not just a drop in the bucket” when it comes to the violence on January 6, Mulroe said. The group “had an integral role in that first breach” at the Capitol, Mulroe said. “The actions of that group were absolutely pivotal on January 6 and followed directly the plotting and planning of Enrique Tarrio.”

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 7:33 pm Tarrio’s mom said to the judge that she told Tarrio “no more politics and capes. Family man only.”

chancery wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 5:50 pm Absolutely spectacular job of real-time reporting by Brandi Buchman.

Volkonski wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 9:03 pm Brandi Buchman
@Brandi_Buchman@mstdn.social
The whole thread:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1699 ... 60922.html

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 11:10 pm Is that the longest sentence to date?

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 11:13 pm

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 11:10 pm Is that the longest sentence to date?

Yes.

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 9:16 pm

chancery wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 5:50 pm Absolutely spectacular job of real-time reporting by Brandi Buchman.

Absolutely agree.

She’s working for Emptywheel now, the queen of live blogging. She was the only blogger issued a press pass for the Scooter Libby trial (Dick Cheney’s CoS, who outed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent after her husband Joe Wilson pointed out that the yellow cake was a lie. Is this where ‘the cake is a lie’comes from? )