Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio claimed federal prosecutors tried to “coerce” him into implicating Trump in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Tarrio said prosecutors in Miami last fall did not ask him about Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidant who was an acquaintance of Tarrio’s, or Ali Alexander, a promoter of the “Stop the Steal” rally. He said the federal visitors did not ask him questions about his knowledge of Jan. 6 beyond the theorized connection to Trump. “There was never an open-ended question after that,” Tarrio said.
Prosecutors did later offer Tarrio a deal: nine to 11 years in prison if he pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy, according to court records. Tarrio declined. During Tarrio’s sentencing hearing, Judge Kelly called him “the ultimate leader, the ultimate person who organized, who was motivated by revolutionary zeal.”his apologies to law enforcement officials who responded to the Capitol riot before the judge handed down the 22-year sentence.. “I have always tried to hold myself to a higher standard, and I failed. I failed miserably. I thought of myself morally above others, and this trial has humbled me.”.
Tarrio is one of the 1,100 individuals who have been charged in connection with the Capitol riot and one of the 370 who have been sentenced to prison.
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