Mon Jan 23, 2023, 02:35 PM

Four Oath Keepers found guilty of Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy

Source: Washington Post

Four members of the far-right Oath Keepers group were convicted of seditious conspiracy Monday, joining founder Stewart Rhodes in being found guilty by a jury of plotting to keep President Donald Trump in power by force.

Seditious conspiracy charges are rarely used and even more rarely successful. At Rhodes’s trial only he and Florida Oath Keepers leader Kelly Meggs were found guilty of the crime, while three associates were convicted of less politically-loaded charges.

Joseph Hackett, 52, ; Roberto Minuta, 38; David Moerschel, 45 and Edward Vallejo, 64, were described by federal prosecutors as armed and dangerous traitors, and by their attorneys as hapless has-beens who stumbled into chaos.

“They claimed to wrap themselves in the Constitution, but they trampled it,” prosecutor Jeffrey Nestler said in closing arguments. “They ignored the will of the people,” he said, but “had the audacity to claim to be oath-keepers.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/23/oathkeepers-verdict-seditious-conspiracy-jan6-guilty/

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63 replies	Author	Time	Post
Four Oath Keepers found guilty of Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy (Original post)	BumRushDaShow	Monday	OP
Fantastic News!	Bev54	Monday	#1
K&R!	2naSalit	Monday	#2
+1	peppertree	Monday	#22
Exactly!	MLAA	Monday	#26
Good.	underpants	Monday	#3
Now this is a great way to start the week!!	Scalded Nun	Monday	#4
Absolutely!	tonekat	Monday	#23
these were the guys who stashed the cache of weapons	GenXer47	Monday	#5
I am thinking this or the other group also had/staged "assault vehicles"	BumRushDaShow	Monday	#7
Golf carts? Really? I hadn't heard that. How funny.	PatrickforB	Monday	#42
I did actually find a brief mention in the OP article	BumRushDaShow	Tuesday	#47
They didn't realize the river was much bigger than the pond back home	SouthernDem4ever	Tuesday	#51
They can either grow old and or die in prison or they can learn to be chatty	Botany	Monday	#6
Here's Minuta, havin himself a fine day hobnobbing with King Ratfucker, too	Leghorn21	Monday	#16
Yes. I see a few field trips in their future.	Harker	Monday	#21
Let's hope we have a pro active DoJ that goes after all these shits who have sold out America in ...	Botany	Monday	#25
I'm optimistic, despite the increasing disdain for DOJ leadership.	Harker	Monday	#27
The rot is very deep. Hell, the FBI office* that sandbaged HRC was on the Russian Payroll in 2016	Botany	Monday	#29
There's a lot of bad wood underneath the veneer...	Harker	Monday	#30
Lock this SOB up please.	Evolve Dammit	Monday	#34
...	trusty elf	Tuesday	#46
LOCK THEM UP!!!	aax	Monday	#8
Kick	dalton99a	Monday	#9
K&R!	gademocrat7	Monday	#10
Great news, thanks for posting, but there is a paywall, fyi. Can post info on sentencing, are they	msfiddlestix	Monday	#11
I had put the "no paywall" link in the "comments"	BumRushDaShow	Monday	#20
I gotcha. thanks these old eyes make a mess of what I read and write sometimes.	msfiddlestix	Monday	#32
Don't beat yourself up about it	BumRushDaShow	Monday	#33
Sow the wind;	vlyons	Monday	#12
Did Rhodes testify against them to reduce his sentence?	LudwigPastorius	Monday	#13
There goes Garland doing nothing again.	fightforfreedom	Monday	#14
Wake me when he starts...	SergeStorms	Monday	#18
Agree SS	DENVERPOPS	Monday	#31
totally agree	Evolve Dammit	Monday	#35
So this news is not enough to wake you up for?	Beastly Boy	Monday	#38
Ancient device discovered for possible seditious traitors.	GreenWave	Monday	#15
It's getting to the point where they're gonna run out of foot soldiers...	malthaussen	Monday	#17
These are no foot soldiers.	Beastly Boy	Monday	#39
It's time to go after the orange commander.	Vinca	Monday	#19
yay. the rs will never be able to cloak themselves with and behind the	AllaN01Bear	Monday	#24
Yes!	Karma13612	Monday	#28
Frankly I have zero sympathy for any of the people that tried this shit and I	cstanleytech	Monday	#36
That, However, Is The New Deflection	ProfessorGAC	Tuesday	#55
That's a CONVICTION. Guilty as charged. In the court of law. By a jury of their peers. NOT a report.	Beastly Boy	Monday	#37
like it	republianmushroom	Monday	#40
Four more from the Basket of Deplorable into	C0RI0LANUS	Monday	#41
Little boys with grandiose illusions dressed up in their	PatrickforB	Monday	#43
They will need their toughness in the FCI.	C0RI0LANUS	Tuesday	#44
"hapless has-beens"	Skittles	Tuesday	#45
Gotta say that compared to all the other convictions on other charges, the sedition charge	ancianita	Tuesday	#48
"Hundreds of those charged have taken over a year to process from charging to conviction"	BumRushDaShow	Tuesday	#50
I hear you and understand the timeline.	ancianita	Tuesday	#53
I think because not only did they not need to spend a lot of time trying to ID them	BumRushDaShow	Tuesday	#54
True, no doubt.	ancianita	Tuesday	#56
I think they are going to need to rope in the next layer up first	BumRushDaShow	Tuesday	#57
Yes. That next to the last layer.	ancianita	Wednesday	#59
At this point, it's not so much a matter of deciding to prosecute	BumRushDaShow	Wednesday	#60
EXACTLY.	ancianita	Wednesday	#61
In order to get individual 1	BumRushDaShow	Wednesday	#62
Yep.	ancianita	Wednesday	#63
Again, the timeline for this case is well over a year.	onenote	Tuesday	#58
You are mistaken about the timeline. It was over a year.	onenote	Tuesday	#52
A lesson to the ignorant: if you plan to claim protection under the US Constitution,	Beastly Boy	Tuesday	#49

Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Jan 23, 2023, 02:39 PM

Bev54 (7,330 posts)

Four Oath Keepers found guilty of Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy

1. Fantastic News!

2. K&R!

22. +1

26. Exactly!

3. Good.

4. Now this is a great way to start the week!!

23. Absolutely!

5. these were the guys who stashed the cache of weapons

7. I am thinking this or the other group also had/staged "assault vehicles"

42. Golf carts? Really? I hadn't heard that. How funny.

47. I did actually find a brief mention in the OP article

51. They didn't realize the river was much bigger than the pond back home

6. They can either grow old and or die in prison or they can learn to be chatty

16. Here's Minuta, havin himself a fine day hobnobbing with King Ratfucker, too

21. Yes. I see a few field trips in their future.

25. Let's hope we have a pro active DoJ that goes after all these shits who have sold out America in ...

27. I'm optimistic, despite the increasing disdain for DOJ leadership.

29. The rot is very deep. Hell, the FBI office* that sandbaged HRC was on the Russian Payroll in 2016

30. There's a lot of bad wood underneath the veneer...

34. Lock this SOB up please.

46. ...

8. LOCK THEM UP!!!

9. Kick

10. K&R!

11. Great news, thanks for posting, but there is a paywall, fyi. Can post info on sentencing, are they

20. I had put the "no paywall" link in the "comments"

32. I gotcha. thanks these old eyes make a mess of what I read and write sometimes.

33. Don't beat yourself up about it

12. Sow the wind;

13. Did Rhodes testify against them to reduce his sentence?

14. There goes Garland doing nothing again.

18. Wake me when he starts...

31. Agree SS

35. totally agree

38. So this news is not enough to wake you up for?

15. Ancient device discovered for possible seditious traitors.

17. It's getting to the point where they're gonna run out of foot soldiers...

39. These are no foot soldiers.

19. It's time to go after the orange commander.

24. yay. the rs will never be able to cloak themselves with and behind the

28. Yes!

36. Frankly I have zero sympathy for any of the people that tried this shit and I

55. That, However, Is The New Deflection

37. That's a CONVICTION. Guilty as charged. In the court of law. By a jury of their peers. NOT a report.

40. like it

41. Four more from the Basket of Deplorable into

43. Little boys with grandiose illusions dressed up in their

44. They will need their toughness in the FCI.

45. "hapless has-beens"

48. Gotta say that compared to all the other convictions on other charges, the sedition charge

50. "Hundreds of those charged have taken over a year to process from charging to conviction"

53. I hear you and understand the timeline.

54. I think because not only did they not need to spend a lot of time trying to ID them

56. True, no doubt.

57. I think they are going to need to rope in the next layer up first

59. Yes. That next to the last layer.

60. At this point, it's not so much a matter of deciding to prosecute

61. EXACTLY.

62. In order to get individual 1

63. Yep.

58. Again, the timeline for this case is well over a year.

52. You are mistaken about the timeline. It was over a year.

49. A lesson to the ignorant: if you plan to claim protection under the US Constitution,