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Eric Munchel
Pardoned January 6 defendant
Eric Gavelek Munchel is a Nashville, Tennessee man who worked in that city's bar and restaurant scene — including at a well-known downtown honky-tonk — before January 6. [FACT: DOJ and news reporting] The cameras gave him a nickname that day. Here is what the record actually holds: on January 6, 2021, Eric and his mother, Lisa Eisenhart, went into the U.S. Capitol together. [FACT] He was tried and convicted of obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy, and weapons and disorderly-conduct counts, and sentenced to 57 months. Those are the counts the court found; we do not stretch a single inch past the court record, and we do not pretend charges are the whole of a man. [FACT: court record] The part the headline never carried: he stood in that storm next to his own mother, and a family walked the years of jail, trial, and appeal together and did not let go of each other. [FACT: mother-son co-defendants] On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency to January 6 defendants, and Eric came home. [FACT] Receipts: - DOJ press releases (charging and sentencing) - WPTV and NewsChannel5 Nashville coverage - CourtListener docket 1:21-cr-00118 Case record: United States v. Munchel, No. 1:21-cr-118, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Arrested 1/10/21. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.
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On the record
- Case number
- 1:21-cr-118
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Disposition
- Arrested 1/10/21. Initial appearance 1/12/21. Ordered detained and transported to Washington, D.C. 1/24/21. Indicted 2/12/21. Arraigned 2/17; pleaded not guilty. Released on conditions 3/29/21. First superseding indictment filed 6/2/21. Arraigned 6/23/21. Pleaded not guilty. Remains on personal recognizance. Status conference set for 9/20 at 10 am.
- Arrested
- January 10, 2021
Charges
- Obstruction of an Official Proceeding
- Conspiracy to Commit Obstruction
- Restricted Building or Grounds
- Obstruction of an Official Proceeding and Aiding and Abetting
- Violent Entry or Disorderly Conduct
- Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon and Aiding and Abetting
- Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon and Aiding and Abetting
- Unlawful Possession of a Dangerous Weapon on Capitol Grounds or Buildings and Aiding and Abetting
- Entering and Remaining in the Gallery of Congress
- Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building
- Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building
Press & news
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/munchel-eric-gavelek →
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/tennessee-mother-and-son-zip-tie-guy-sentenced-felony-and-misdemeanor-charges-related-jan →
- https://www.wptv.com/news/national/zip-tie-guy-eric-munchel-sentenced-to-nearly-5-years-in-prison-for-role-in-jan-6-capitol-riot →
- https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59294008/united-states-v-munchel/ →
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