The Proud Boys leaders are set to be sentenced August by Judge Timothy Kelly of the US District Court in Washington . A jury in Washington convicted four of the men in May of seditious conspiracy . Prosecutors seek years in prison for Tarrio and Biggs years for Rehl years for Nordean and years for Pezzola . The foot soldiers of the right aimed to keep their leader in power. They failed. They are not heroes they are criminals prosecutors wrote in a new court filing in the new filing . 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. The defendants understand the stakes, they wrote in the filing. They embraced their roles. They embrace their role. They were not heroes. They understood their roles and failed. The prosecution said in many ways. They ignored their roles, prosecutors said in a court filing. It is critical that this court impose significant sentences of incarceration on all the defendants in this case to convey to those who would mobilize such political violence in the future that their actions will have consequences. They said in the court. They should be sent to prison. They must be sent back to jail. They will be sentenced to jail again. They have been sent to jail, they will be released. They deserve back to prison, they said. They need back to court. Back to the jail. The trial. They say they are back to the prison’re back in jail. It’s back in prison. We’ll be back in court’ve been convicted. They’d be back. Back in court
Justice Department asks for 30-year sentences for Proud Boys leaders convicted of sedition .
