Oath Keeper convicted in Jan. 6 Capitol riot gets 3 years in latest extremist sentencing

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida man who stormed the U.S. Capitol with other members of the far-right Oath Keepers group was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other charges — the latest in a historic string of sentences in the Jan. 6. 2021 attack. David Moerschel, a 45-year-old 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 to stop the transfer power from former President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden after the 2020 election. All together, nine people associated with the Oath Keepers were were tried for seditious conspiracy and six were convicted of the rarely used Civil War-era charge.