A Florida man who stormed the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to three years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other charges.
David Moerschel, 45, a neurophysiologist from Punta Gorda, was convicted in January alongside three other members of the antigovernment extremist group for their roles in what prosecutors described as a violent plot toMoerschel was a lower-level defendant among the nine people associated with the Oath Keepers who were tried for seditious conspiracy. Six were convicted of the rarely used Civil War-era charge in two separate trials, including the group’s founder Stewart Rhodes.
A member of the Oath Keepers extremist group who guarded Trump advisor Roger Stone before storming the U.S. Capitol gets more than four years in prison. Moerschel was a neurophysiologist who monitored surgical patients under anesthesia before his arrest, though he’s since been fired and now works in construction and landscaping. A former missionary, he is married with three children.
One of Moerschel’s co-defendants, Joseph Hackett, of Sarasota, Fla., is expected to be sentenced later Friday. Hackett repeatedly warned other Oath Keepers about “leaks” and the need to secure their communications before Jan. 6, and later changed his online screen names, authorities have said.
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