U.S. judge sentences Oath Keepers founder to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy

U.S. judge sentences Oath Keepers founder to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy

By Sarah N. Lynch

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge sentenced the founder of the far-right militant Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes to 18 years in prison on Thursday for seditious conspiracy and other crimes related to the U.S. Capitol attack, after a defiant Rhodes stood before him and insisted he was a “political prisoner.”

(Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch)

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