NY judge’s son who dressed as cave man in Jan. 6 riot sentenced to 8 months
Aaron Mostofsky, 35, an aspiring architect, admitted to being one of the first 12 people to enter the Capitol’s broken senate wing doors and windows shortly after 2:13 p.m., while wearing a raccoon fur pelt and stealing a police shield and bulletproof vest.
Mostofsky’s family asked that he serve his term at a minimum security branch of the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, N.Y., which the judge agreed to recommend and gave the defendant 30 days to report. Addressing the court, Mostofsky asked for mercy and explained what he said were a series of “bad decisions that day,” where he witnessed police using crowd-dispersal munitions such as tear gas, pepper spray, stun grenades and rubber bullets.“I should have walked away, but I walked toward the barriers. I pushed back, I should not have done that,” Mostofsky said.Mostofsky said he should not have entered the Capitol and did not intend to cause harm or interfere.
Mostofsky was the first Jan. 6 defendant to be sentenced on a felony rioting charge, which is punishable by up to five years in prison, and his sentence will help set a benchmark for about 200 others facing similar counts if they are convicted.
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