The sentencing of former Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio was delayed on Wednesday because the presiding judge contracted an illness.
Tarrio was previously found guilty of seditious conspiracy and several other felonies related to actions he took in the lead-up to the events that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The former Proud Boy leader was not actually present at the protests, having been arrested for burning a Black Lives Matter flag and ordered to leave Washington, D.C.
Three other individuals associated with the Proud Boys were also convicted of seditious conspiracy — Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nordean, and Zachary Rehl, according to Axios.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly pushed Tarrio’s sentencing to September 5, per NPR.
Nordean’s sentencing was moved to September 1, the Associated Press reported.
Federal prosecutors have recommended a prison sentence of 33 years for Tarrio. They added a “terrorism enhancement.”
“The defendants understood the stakes, and they embraced their role in bringing about a ‘revolution.’ They unleashed a force on the Capitol that was calculated to exert their political will on elected officials by force and to undo the results of a democratic election,” prosecutors claimed, according to NPR.
Tarrio’s attorneys previously stressed that he was not present for the events of January 6, claiming that he “did not direct his fellow members of Proud Boys or anyone else to assault people on the day in question or to destroy any government property.”
They also claimed that the federal government was punishing Tarrio for not pleading guilty and instead taking his case to trial.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, allegations of misconduct on the part of FBI investigators emerged during Nordean’s trial.Â
According to court documents, Nordean’s defense attorney conducted a cross-examination of FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller, during which it was alleged “that a secret hidden tab in an FBI spreadsheet showed some of Agent Miller’s emails in which the FBI agent admitted fabricating evidence and following orders to destroy hundreds of items of evidence” pertaining to privileged communications between Rehl and his attorney.
