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WASHINGTON Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison for his conviction on seditious conspiracy charges for the role he played in helping to mobilize the pro-Trump attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The sentence for Stewart Rhodes was the longest so far in the federal investigation of the Capitol attack and the first issued to a defendant convicted of sedition.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four others are set to be the first sentenced for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol.
Prosecutors are seeking 25 years for Rhodes and at least 10 for each of the eight followers convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.