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Joseph Cattani

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Joseph Cattani is a Wisconsin man from Colgate, in Washington County, northwest of Milwaukee. He was never convicted of anything. Read that again. Joseph Cattani was charged, and the case ended before any jury ever weighed it. [FACT] HIS STORY Joseph Cattani was 40 when federal agents arrested him in Wisconsin in September 2023, more than two and a half years after January 6, 2021. [FACT, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Spectrum News 1 and TMJ4.] He lived in Colgate, a small unincorporated community in the Town of Lisbon, and he was arrested in St. Francis. Two and a half years of ordinary life, work and family, and then a knock. That is the part of these cases people forget. Cattani told investigators the crowd that day believed the President was going to march with them. [THEIR ACCOUNT, as reported in the charging documents and Wisconsin press coverage.] THE LEGAL FIGHT The record, plainly, and these were allegations, never proven at trial. [FACT, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.] Criminal complaint filed September 6, 2023. Arrested September 7, 2023. The government charged two felony counts, civil disorder and assaulting, resisting or impeding officers, plus three misdemeanor counts of entering and remaining in a restricted building, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building and demonstrating in a Capitol building. No trial. No conviction. No sentence. JANUARY 20, 2025 On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued clemency covering the January 6 cases, and the Justice Department moved to dismiss the January 6 prosecutions still pending. [FACT] Joseph Cattani case was among those still open at that point. [DOCUMENTED INFERENCE from the docket timeline.] He walked out of it with charges, not a conviction. CASE RECORD Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Complaint filed: September 6, 2023 Arrested: September 7, 2023 Disposition: charges resolved without conviction following the January 20, 2025 clemency DOJ docket page: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/cattani-joseph Washington County, Wisconsin. If you know Joe Cattani, his trade and his family, this page is waiting on you. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.