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Lori Ann Vinson
Pardoned January 6 defendant
Lori Ann Vinson built her life on taking care of people — a career nurse from western Kentucky who spent years working hospital floors on both sides of the Kentucky-Indiana line. FACT: after January 6, 2021, she did not hide. She spoke openly on local television about having entered the Capitol — before any charge was filed — and it cost her: her hospital, Ascension St. Vincent in Evansville, fired her within days. FACT: she and her husband Thomas resolved their cases together; Lori Vinson pleaded guilty on July 27, 2021 to one misdemeanor count of parading, and on October 22, 2021 she was sentenced to five years of probation, a $5,000 fine, $500 restitution, and 120 hours of community service. THEIR ACCOUNT: in a letter to the court, Lori Vinson wrote that she was 'sorry for what happened that day and for those that were hurt,' and that her defiant TV comments were a raw reaction to losing the nursing job she loved — never an endorsement of violence. FACT: on January 20, 2025, the presidential clemency proclamation granted a full pardon covering January 6 convictions like hers. A nurse. A wife. A woman who told the truth about where she'd been, paid dearly for it, and kept going. CASE RECORD Case No. 1:21-cr-355, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Guilty plea July 27, 2021 to one misdemeanor count; sentenced October 22, 2021; pardoned January 20, 2025. DOJ defendant page linked in the sources. 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-355
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Disposition
- Arrested 2/23. Intial appearance 3/16. Charged via criminal information 5/12. Arraigned 6/7 where she pleaded not guilty to all counts. Plea agreement hearing held 7/27 where she pleaded guilty to count 4 of the information. Sentenced on 10/22 to five years probation, a $5000 fine, $500 restitution and 120 hours of community service.
Charges
- Knowingly Entering or Remaining in any Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly Conduct Which Impedes the Conduct of Government Business; Disruptive Conduct in the Capitol Buildings; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in the Capitol Buildings
Sentence
five years probation, a $5000 fine, $500 restitution and 120 hours of community service
Press & news
- https://www.courthousenews.com/kentucky-couple-at-capitol-riot-ordered-to-pay-10000/ →
- https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/nurse-fired-us-capitol-riot/507-bcba2aed-8b94-4c2f-a2f9-77c039ccabe4 →
- https://www.wdrb.com/news/kentucky-woman-says-hospital-fired-her-from-nursing-job-for-admitting-entering-us-capitol-during/article_c4cda84c-5793-11eb-b4a0-53f5970d03ff.html →
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021/ →
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