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Brandon Prenzlin

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Brandon Prenzlin is a grassroots organizer. Before January 6 he worked for FreedomWorks, one of the biggest conservative advocacy shops in the country, doing the unglamorous work of turning out ordinary people for causes they believed in. Arlington, Virginia. Phones, sign ups, rallies, the ground game. He had organized protests for years. As Brandon Prenzlin told the court, they were nothing like January 6. [THEIR ACCOUNT - statement at sentencing] His attorneys, Christopher Wiest and Christopher Macchiaroli, argued the government was pushing for a harsher penalty because of what he believed, and called it blatant First Amendment retaliation. They asked for four months probation. [THEIR ACCOUNT - defense sentencing position, reported by WUSA9] THE LEGAL FIGHT Brandon Prenzlin was charged with four misdemeanors. No felony. No weapon. No assault. He was arrested September 17, 2021, an information was filed November 22, 2021, and he pleaded guilty March 25, 2022. On June 28, 2022 Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, sentenced him to 10 months probation, a $2,500 fine, $500 restitution and 120 hours of community service. No jail. The judge said his conduct was at the lower end of culpability. [FACT - DOJ defendant record; WUSA9, June 28, 2022] On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency covering the January 6 prosecutions. [FACT] THE CASE RECORD Case 1:21-cr-694, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Charges per the DOJ record: knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. Docket as recorded: arrested 9/17/21, information filed 11/22/21, pleaded guilty 3/25/22, sentenced 6/28/22. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.