Former New York City Department of Sanitation worker Dominick Madden "has already experienced the harshest sentence, and that is being forced to retire early from the career he loved and letting his family down,” his attorney writes in his Jan. 6 case.
Dominick Madden to the court: "Over this past year of suffering financially, mentally and physically and punishing myself I have realized how my decision to enter the Capitol on that day has affected so many lives in a negative way and I am truly, truly sorry for that…"
"general deterrence has also been served as the whole world has already observed the collateral consequences that have damaged the lives and reputations of misdemeanants with the same charge.”
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Hearing underway for mother-and-son Jan. 6 duo Maryann Mooney-Rondon and Rafael Rondon, aka #AirHeadLady and #AirHeadBoy.
Rafael Rondon is also facing a separate federal charge in New York over the sawed-off shotgun found at their home.
The FBI originally raided the home of an Alaskan woman they mistook for Maryann Mooney-Rondon. After that, online sleuths managed to correctly ID her in about 30 minutes. She and her son were arrested about five months later. Story here: huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
Plea negotiations are ongoing, but Rafael Rondon’s separate gun case is complicating matters a bit.
Defense sentencing memo: "Robert Schornak thought the election was stolen… he trusted the voices of his party that repeatedly assured him that there was undeniable proof that Donald Trump won and Joe Biden lost."
"He understands that his actions were destructive to our Democracy and an embarrassment to the country on a global scale. He also recognizes that there was no conclusive evidence of election fraud and that President Biden is our legitimate president.”
Schornak agreed to publicly testify before the @January6thCmte if asked, per defense sentencing memo.
"He wishes to make a clean break from his past, from the thinking that led him to his actions on January 6th…"
Needs a bit of an edit, but a pretty solid sentencing memo lede, tbh.
"Ms. Acosta, usually a quiet, gentle soul started getting involved in rallies in her community to support police officers, firefighters and the military during President Trump’s run for election.”
NEW: The feds want Jan. 6 defendant Mariposa Castro to do 60 days behind bars.
“we’re breaking in! We are breaking in! We’re doing this. We’re breaking in, right?… We’re taking our house back. This is our Capitol. We’re taking it back. No more bullshit! That’s it.”
Passerby: It’s a war. It’s a civil war.
Castro: It is. It’s a civil war.
Passerby: Backed the blue all fucking summer and this is how they treat us? Fuck the blue. This is our country and we’re taking it back.
Castro: We’re taking it back. We’re not a communist country.
NEW: Gina Bisignano — the Beverly Hills cosmetologist seen on a bullhorn at the Capitol on Jan. 6 — had some second thoughts about the plea deal she reached in August.
"I want to help, because I want to get out of this mess,” Bisignano told me yesterday. "What am I going to do, be like all these other people and try to fight something that we're never going to win?” nbcnews.com/politics/justi…