6, as well as Rhodes' orders for members to delete incriminating messages after the Capitol assault. Mehta cited the stockpile of weapons the Oath Keepers had amassed just outside of Washington, D.C. Mehta agreed with prosecutors that Rhodes "inspired the use of violence" in his followers to disrupt the certification and that his conduct met the legal definition of terrorism intended to influence the actions of government. District Judge Amit Mehta accepted the government's recommendation to apply an enhancement for terrorism in Rhodes' sentencing. Rhodes' sentence is now the longest to date handed down to a defendant charged in connection with the Capitol assault.įor the first time in a Jan. A federal judge sentenced Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes to 18 years in prison Thursday and accepted the government's recommendation of an enhancement for terrorism for his role leading a seditious conspiracy to disrupt the certification of President Joe Biden's election victory that culminated in the violent assault on the U.S.
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