Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison Tuesday for seditious conspiracy in his fascist street gang’s role in the January 6th insurrection after fat former President Trump’s humiliating defeat in the 2020 election, CBS’s Scott MacFarlane reports.
The sentence is by four years the longest of any handed down to a Capitol riot defendant, the second longest being Tarrio’s frenemy terrorist Oath Keepers founder Stewie Rhodes who was hit with 18 years in the slammer after being convicted of the same charge. Trump-appointed DC Circuit Judge Tim Kelly, known for going relatively easy on some rioters, was unsparing in his assessment of Tarrio, applying the terrorism enhancement to the sentence and declaring the street brawler “the ultimate leader of the conspiracy” to prevent Biden’s win from being certified. Sucks for him.