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Marcos Gleffe

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Marcos Gleffe is an Elk Grove Village, Illinois neighbor who spent one afternoon inside the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and has spent years paying for it since. Here is the record. Gleffe went to Washington, D.C. on January 6. He went into the Capitol building. He came back out. That is what the government charged, and that is what he admitted to. He did not hide from it. When the FBI came knocking after a photo surfaced on Facebook, Gleffe told agents he knew he had made a mistake. His own words to investigators: going through that door was "the biggest mistake" of the day. That is not spin. That is a man owning what he did, on the record, before a lawyer ever told him to. The legal fight. Gleffe was arrested September 2, 2021. Prosecutors filed an Information on November 30, 2021. He was arraigned December 10, 2021, and pleaded not guilty at that stage, the standard posture while a case is being worked. He changed course and pleaded guilty on September 8, 2022, to charges connected to entering and remaining in a restricted building and disorderly conduct at the Capitol. A judge sentenced him to three years of probation and a $1,000 fine. No prison time. Then came January 20, 2025. President Trump's clemency order for January 6 defendants applies to Marcos Gleffe's case. Same set of facts prosecutors used to charge hundreds of Americans, and the political winds moved the outcome, not new evidence. What this does not prove: it does not prove Gleffe assaulted anyone, destroyed property, or planned anything with anyone. The record shows a restricted-area and disorderly-conduct plea, nothing more, nothing less. What this does prove: a guilty plea to the charges as filed, a sentence of probation, no violence charges, and a defendant who admitted his own mistake to federal agents before he had to. THE CASE RECORD Name: Marcos Gleffe Location: Elk Grove Village, Illinois Case: 1:21-cr-698, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Arrested: September 2, 2021 Disposition: Pleaded guilty September 8, 2022; sentenced to probation and a fine Clemency: Covered by the January 20, 2025 presidential clemency for January 6 defendants This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.