Former State Department Aide Sentenced to Nearly Six Years in Jan. 6 Attack

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A former U.S. Marine who served in the Trump administration as a low-level State Department aide was sentenced on Friday to nearly six years in prison for his role in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The former aide, Federico G. Klein, of Falls Church, Va., was a State Department employee when he used a stolen riot shield to repeatedly assault officers during several violent clashes in a tunnel below the Capitol, prosecutors said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/us/politics/federico-klein-jan-6-sentencing-trump.html

 

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Mr. Klein, wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat, attended the rally and then marched to the Capitol, where he waged a “relentless siege” on the police for more than 90 minutes, prosecutors wrote.

They wrote that he “was likely motivated by a personal benefit — namely, continued employment as a political appointee — when he attacked the U.S. Capitol.”

Ignoring police commands to move back on the Upper West Plaza, prosecutors said Mr. Klein “pushed hard” against police officers, telling them, “You can’t stop this!”