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Daniel Leyden

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Daniel Leyden is a Chicago-area man from Illinois who went to Washington with his own brother beside him — and who stood in a federal courtroom in the same case as him. Daniel Leyden was 55 years old when federal agents arrested him in Illinois on August 23, 2022. He is a west-suburban Chicago man; local coverage placed the family in the La Grange area. He was charged alongside his brother, Joseph Leyden. (FACT — DOJ; ABC7 Chicago; Chicago Sun-Times; Patch.) Two brothers, one docket. Whatever else is true about this case, the Leyden family went through it together, and that is worth saying out loud. Daniel Leyden was 55 — not a young man looking for trouble, but a middle-aged Illinois man who had a life, a name, and a neighborhood before any of this started. The archive would like to tell that part properly. WHAT WE STILL NEED We do not yet have his trade, his employer, his military or first-responder history, his family's own words, or a support page. If any of that exists, we want it — sourced and on the record, in his words or his family's. THE LEGAL FIGHT A criminal complaint was filed August 10, 2022, and Daniel Leyden was arrested August 23, 2022. He was charged with a felony count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement with a dangerous weapon, a felony count of interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder, and four related misdemeanor offenses. Public reporting indicates he was sentenced September 7, 2023 to 38 months of imprisonment and 12 months of supervised release. (FACT — DOJ releases. DOCUMENTED INFERENCE on the sentencing figures, which the archive has not yet confirmed against the signed judgment.) Charges are charges. The archive does not restate an allegation as a finding. The January 20, 2025 presidential clemency proclamation granted pardons and commutations for offenses relating to the events at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: Daniel Leyden's individual clemency status has not yet been verified by the archive against the Office of the Pardon Attorney certificate-recipient list, and the district-court case number for the indicted case has not yet been captured. CASE RECORD Case No. 1:22-mj-180, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Complaint filed August 10, 2022. Arrested August 23, 2022. DOJ defendant page: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/leyden-daniel This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.