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Joseph Biggs, a onetime Proud Boys lieutenant, was sentenced to 17 years for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 riot.
Thursday, August 31, 2023 1:06 PM ET
The penalty for Mr. Biggs is the second longest so far in more than 1,100 criminal cases stemming from the Capitol attack.
Mr. Biggs’s sentence was one of the stiffest penalties issued so far in more than 1,100 criminal cases stemming from the Capitol attack and among only a handful to have been legally labeled an act of terrorism. It was just shy of the 18-year term given in May to Stewart Rhodes, the leader of another far-right group, the Oath Keepers militia, who was also found guilty of sedition.
The sentence, handed down by Judge Timothy J. Kelly in Federal District Court in Washington, kicked off a series of hearings scheduled for this week and next at which punishment will be meted out against the former chairman of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, and three other members of the group who were convicted of sedition and other serious crimes at a landmark conspiracy trial this spring. One of Mr. Biggs’s co-defendants, Zachary Rehl, is scheduled to be sentenced in front of Judge Kelly on Thursday afternoon.
During tearful remarks to Judge Kelly, Mr. Biggs said that he turned to drinking — a favorite Proud Boy pastime — after coming back from combat overseas and that the only group he wanted to be affiliated with these days is “my daughter’s P.T.A.”
“I’m not a terrorist,” he said.
Judge Kelly in turn told Mr. Biggs that the attack on the Capitol, which he had helped to instigate, was a “national disgrace.”
“What happened on Jan. 6 harmed an important American custom,” Judge Kelly said. “That day broke our tradition of peacefully transferring power, which is among the most precious things we had as Americans. Notice I said ‘had’ — we don’t have it anymore.”
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BREAKING NEWS Joseph Biggs, a onetime Proud Boys lieutenant, was sentenced to 17 years for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 riot.
Thursday, August 31, 2023 1:06 PM ET
The penalty for Mr. Biggs is the second longest so far in more than 1,100 criminal cases stemming from the Capitol attack.
Mr. Biggs’s sentence was one of the stiffest penalties issued so far in more than 1,100 criminal cases stemming from the Capitol attack and among only a handful to have been legally labeled an act of terrorism. It was just shy of the 18-year term given in May to Stewart Rhodes, the leader of another far-right group, the Oath Keepers militia, who was also found guilty of sedition.
The sentence, handed down by Judge Timothy J. Kelly in Federal District Court in Washington, kicked off a series of hearings scheduled for this week and next at which punishment will be meted out against the former chairman of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, and three other members of the group who were convicted of sedition and other serious crimes at a landmark conspiracy trial this spring. One of Mr. Biggs’s co-defendants, Zachary Rehl, is scheduled to be sentenced in front of Judge Kelly on Thursday afternoon.
During tearful remarks to Judge Kelly, Mr. Biggs said that he turned to drinking — a favorite Proud Boy pastime — after coming back from combat overseas and that the only group he wanted to be affiliated with these days is “my daughter’s P.T.A.”
“I’m not a terrorist,” he said.
Judge Kelly in turn told Mr. Biggs that the attack on the Capitol, which he had helped to instigate, was a “national disgrace.”
“What happened on Jan. 6 harmed an important American custom,” Judge Kelly said. “That day broke our tradition of peacefully transferring power, which is among the most precious things we had as Americans. Notice I said ‘had’ — we don’t have it anymore.”
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