[46 / 1 / 18]
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/us/politics/jan-6-ohio-man-sentenced.html
An Ohio man who assaulted law enforcement officers during the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and who the Justice Department said became a “one-man misinformation machine” as he spread lies online about what occurred that day, was sentenced on Thursday to four years and 10 months in prison.
The man, Kenneth Joseph Owen Thomas, 41, of East Liverpool, Ohio, had said online that his conviction in June on four counts related to his assaults on officers was a “huge win,” doubling down on his attacks that day, prosecutors said in court documents.
They emphasized his apparent lack of regret in their sentencing memo, stating that Mr. Thomas had “expressed no remorse for his crimes,” and instead “sought fame and notoriety” after being part of the mob on Jan. 6.
Judge Dabney Friedrich of U.S. District Court in Washington also ordered Mr. Thomas to pay a $20,000 fine and $2,000 in restitution.
Federal prosecutors, who had asked that Mr. Thomas be sentenced to about nine years in prison, said in court records that his significant spread of falsehoods was hard to overstate: He started his own webpage and brand centered around his self-created identity as a rioter; he produced more than 20 hours of Jan. 6-related content each week; and he repeatedly falsely claimed that “Jan. 6 was a setup.”
An Ohio man who assaulted law enforcement officers during the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and who the Justice Department said became a “one-man misinformation machine” as he spread lies online about what occurred that day, was sentenced on Thursday to four years and 10 months in prison.
The man, Kenneth Joseph Owen Thomas, 41, of East Liverpool, Ohio, had said online that his conviction in June on four counts related to his assaults on officers was a “huge win,” doubling down on his attacks that day, prosecutors said in court documents.
They emphasized his apparent lack of regret in their sentencing memo, stating that Mr. Thomas had “expressed no remorse for his crimes,” and instead “sought fame and notoriety” after being part of the mob on Jan. 6.
Judge Dabney Friedrich of U.S. District Court in Washington also ordered Mr. Thomas to pay a $20,000 fine and $2,000 in restitution.
Federal prosecutors, who had asked that Mr. Thomas be sentenced to about nine years in prison, said in court records that his significant spread of falsehoods was hard to overstate: He started his own webpage and brand centered around his self-created identity as a rioter; he produced more than 20 hours of Jan. 6-related content each week; and he repeatedly falsely claimed that “Jan. 6 was a setup.”
