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Kenneth Duncan Massie
Pardoned January 6 defendant
Kenneth Duncan Massie served his country before he ever walked into the U.S. Capitol. FACT: according to a Department of Justice sentencing memorandum, Massie served in the United States Army from 1992 to 1993. He's from Greenfield, Ohio. Small town, working man's name. FACT: court documents allege Kenneth Massie entered the Capitol on January 6, 2021 through the Senate Wing door, wearing a white cowboy hat with an American flag tucked under the rim, walking through the Crypt with two other men, each with a hand on the shoulder of the man in front of him. When the FBI came calling in December 2021, Massie didn't lawyer up and go quiet. FACT: he admitted to entering the Capitol, handed over the jacket he wore that day and the phone he carried. That's a man taking responsibility, not hiding from it. Kenneth Massie was arrested February 8, 2022, in Greenfield. FACT: he pleaded guilty to one charge, Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building. The rest of the charges against him were dismissed. The court sentenced him to probation, location monitoring, community service, restitution. No prison time. FACT: on January 20, 2025, Kenneth Duncan Massie received a full pardon from President Trump. An Army veteran from a small Ohio town who walked into a moment of American history, admitted what he did, and walked out with a presidential pardon instead of a permanent felony record. That's the record. Read it for yourself. What this doesn't prove: it doesn't establish his politics beyond that day or anything about his life before or after the Army. What it does prove: he served, he admitted his conduct, and he was pardoned by name. CASE RECORD Case No. 1:21-cr-725, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Arrested February 8, 2022. Pleaded guilty October 21, 2022. Sentenced April 20, 2023 to 24 months probation, 30 days location monitoring, 60 hours community service, $500 restitution. Full pardon January 20, 2025. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.
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- Case number
- 1:21-cr-725
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Disposition
- Initially filed as 1:22-mj-19. Complaint filed 1/27/2022. Arrested 2/8/2022. Pleaded guilty 10/21/2022 to Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building; other charges dismissed. Sentenced 4/20/2023 to 24 months probation, 30 days location monitoring, 60 hours community service, $500 restitution, $10 special assessment. U.S. Army veteran (1992-1993). Received a full pardon January 20, 2025.
- Arrested
- February 8, 2022
- Plea
- October 21, 2022
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