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

FILE PHOTO: Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers poses during an interview session in Eureka

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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