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Francis Joseph Vitollo

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Francis Joseph Vitollo is a 68-year-old man from Coeymans, New York, a small Hudson River town in Albany County with fewer than 8,000 people in it. Sixty-eight years old. Small town. Federal agents knocked on his door three years and four months after January 6, 2021. THE MAN FACT: Francis Joseph Vitollo of Coeymans, New York was 68 at the time of his arrest. (Source: NPR January 6 case database, compiled from federal court records.) FACT: He was arrested on May 15, 2024, in New York. (Source: NPR database; News10 Albany; Times Union.) Think about the arithmetic. A man in his late sixties, in a Hudson Valley town most New Yorkers could not find on a map, charged with four misdemeanors more than three years after the fact. THE CHARGES, AND ONLY THE CHARGES CHARGE ONLY: Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building or Grounds; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building. FACT: Every one of those counts is a misdemeanor. There is no allegation in the charging document of assault, of a weapon, or of property destruction. FACT: Francis Vitollo pleaded NOT GUILTY to all charges. A jury trial was set for April 28, 2025. HOW IT ENDED FACT: On January 21, 2025, the court granted the government motion to dismiss the case WITH PREJUDICE. With prejudice is the strongest form of dismissal there is. The government cannot bring it back. FACT: On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency covering the January 6 prosecutions. FACT: Francis Joseph Vitollo was never convicted. He was never sentenced. He never went to trial. WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE It does not prove what happened on any sidewalk or in any hallway that day. What it proves is the shape of the record: charged at 68, pleaded not guilty, dismissed with prejudice, no conviction of any kind. THE RECORD U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, docket 1:24-cr-268469 series. Charging document on file at CourtListener. Arrest date May 15, 2024. Coeymans, Albany County, New York. Eight months from arrest to dismissal with prejudice. That is the whole federal case against Francis Vitollo. Show me the evidence that ever made it a conviction, because the docket does not have one. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.