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Frank Rocco Giustino

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Frank Rocco Giustino is a massage therapist from Kings Park, New York, on Long Island's North Shore, and one of the January 6 defendants pardoned in 2025. He runs a practice on Long Island and has spent years working with his hands for a living. FACT: he traveled to Washington on January 6, 2021, and posted about the day on Facebook and Discord, writing about tear gas being fired near the crowd. FACT (NPR, charging documents): surveillance footage showed him passing through the Capitol crypt, rotunda, and other areas over about 20 minutes. Frank Giustino never went quietly. He fought the case against him in open court, on the record, in his own voice. FACT: he pleaded guilty on February 1, 2023, to a single misdemeanor, parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building, and the remaining counts were dismissed. He sat for a long-form interview on the Justice in Jeopardy podcast, "Frank Giustino Under Oath," to lay out his account. THEIR ACCOUNT: he has said he opposed the violence he saw that day. WHERE THINGS STAND: FACT, he was sentenced on November 21, 2023, to 90 days, with credit for time already served. FACT, on January 20, 2025, Frank Giustino received a full, complete, and unconditional presidential pardon, and he is listed by the Office of the Pardon Attorney as a pardon-certificate recipient. Case closed. Long Island still home. CASE RECORD Case No. 1:23-cr-00016-JEB, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Charges: entering and remaining in a restricted building; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building; violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building (offense of conviction). Guilty plea February 1, 2023; sentenced 90 days November 21, 2023; full pardon January 20, 2025. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.