WASHINGTON — A federal judge sentenced Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes to 18 years in prison Thursday 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. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Rhodes sentence is now the longest to date handed down to a defendant charged in connection with the Capitol assault.
"You, sir, present an ongoing threat and peril to this country," Judge Mehta told Rhodes just before handing down his sentence. The Justice Department was seeking 25 years for Rhodes, with a prosecutor saying in court Thursday that a harsh sentence was critical"to ensure the respect for the rule of law that is essential to the survival of our democracy."
Juries in two separate trials returned convictions against Rhodes and eight of his associates on a variety of serious felony charges, though three from the group were acquitted of the most serious charge of seditious conspiracy.
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