Days Before Trump Takes Office, Former Oath Keepers Lawyer Sentenced
Source: Huff Post
Jan 17, 2025, 12:42 PM EST | Updated 2 hours ago
With pardons for Jan. 6 rioters by President-elect Donald Trump potentially just days away, former counsel and onetime stand-in president to the far-right Oath Keepers Kellye SoRelle was sentenced on Friday. SoRelle pleaded guilty to obstructing justice and telling members of the extremist group to delete texts after Jan. 6, 2021.
Though prosecutors had sought a 16-month sentence, presiding U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced her to 12 months in prison plus 36 months of supervised release. SoRelle was ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution and complete 120 hours of community service.
SoRelle’s public defender had filed a heavily redacted motion to delay the hearing just days earlier and asked the judge to wait until at least March to render the sentence, but Mehta was unwilling to delay any longer. SoRelle was first arrested in September 2022 and indicted alongside fellow Oath Keeper Donovan Crowl, a former Marine, and James Beeks, a former Broadway actor who marched with Oath Keepers on Jan. 6.
Crowl, a member of the Ohio State Regular Militia, marched up the Capitol steps behind Oath Keeper Jessica Watkins and others on Jan. 6. Crowl was found guilty at a bench trial in July 2023 of conspiracy to obstruct an official congressional proceeding and impeding officers.
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