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Matthew Leland Klein

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Matthew Leland Klein is a missionary kid from Pendleton, Oregon. He grew up on the far side of the world. Around 2008 his parents, Jeffrey and Nanci Klein, took the family out of eastern Oregon and down to Aluminé, Argentina, sponsored by Berean Baptist Church in Pendleton. Nine of them. Ten years in Argentina. Two more years in Coyhaique, Chile. They came back to the United States in February 2020. FACT, reported by Willamette Week. Think about what that means. Matthew Klein spent most of his childhood and his whole young adulthood in South America, in a family that went where they were sent. He came home to Umatilla County less than a year before January 6, 2021. THE LEGAL FIGHT Matthew Klein was arrested in March 2021 along with his younger brother Jonathanpeter. He was 24 then. In July 2024 he pleaded guilty to one felony count of civil disorder and a misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds. FACT, per the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Sentencing was set for November 15, 2024. On January 20, 2025, President Trump granted clemency covering the January 6 prosecutions. The final disposition in Matthew Leland Klein's case is NEEDS AUTHENTICATION. If you have the judgment or the docket sheet, send it and this profile gets corrected the same day. THE CASE RECORD Case 1:21-cr-237-RDM. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Randolph D. Moss. Charged counts per the DOJ record: Conspiracy; Obstruction of an Official Proceeding and Aiding and Abetting; Obstruction of Law Enforcement During Civil Disorder and Aiding and Abetting; Destruction of Government Property and Aiding and Abetting; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds. Docket as recorded: Arrested 3/23/2021. Initial appearance 3/26/2021. Released on personal recognizance bond. WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE The plea was to civil disorder and a misdemeanor. Matthew Klein was not convicted of assaulting an officer. The heavier counts in the original indictment were not the counts he pleaded to. The record does not lie. Read it for yourself. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.