Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years for leading Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy.
Oath Keepers militia founder Stewart Rhodes poses during an interview session in Eureka, Montana, U.S. June 20, 2016.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.
"You, sir, present an ongoing threat and peril to this country," Mehta told Rhodes just before handing down his sentence. Prior to Thursday, the harshest sentence for a defendant charged in connection with Jan. 6 was 170 months, or just over 14 years. In their sentencing recommendation to Mehta, they argued repeatedly that harsh sentences for all the Oath Keepers charged in the conspiracy were necessary in order to deter future potential attacks against democracy.
Prosecutors also presented extensive evidence of the group's planning in advance of Jan. 6, showing how members stashed a massive cache of weapons at a hotel just outside city limits that the government argued would be transported into Washington in the event Trump invoked the Insurrection Act.
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