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Matthew Carl Mazzocco

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Matthew Carl Mazzocco is a San Antonio, Texas mortgage loan officer and a husband. Thirty-seven years old on the day the federal government came for him. Here is what the court record actually says he did inside the building. According to the charging documents, Matthew Mazzocco was seen and heard telling other people in the Capitol not to take anything and not to destroy anything, and that they were probably going to get in trouble for what they were doing. He was the one telling people to stop. ## The sentence nobody expected Federal prosecutors recommended HOME CONFINEMENT for Matthew Carl Mazzocco. The government itself asked for no jail. The judge gave him 45 days behind bars anyway, on October 4, 2021. A sentence longer than the prosecutors requested. That is not a technicality. That is the government asking for leniency and the bench overruling it. Same county, opposite rule. ## The legal fight Matthew Mazzocco was arrested on January 17, 2021, eleven days after January 6. He was charged via criminal information on January 28, 2021 with four misdemeanors. On July 2, 2021, he pleaded guilty to ONE count: parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. The other three counts were dismissed. He was sentenced on October 4, 2021 to 45 days of incarceration, 60 hours of community service, a $10 assessment, and $500 restitution. He was never charged with assault. He was never charged with a weapon. He was never charged with a felony. ## Clemency On January 20, 2025, Matthew Carl Mazzocco received a full pardon under the presidential proclamation covering January 6 convictions. ## What this does not prove, and what it does This does not prove he should not have been charged. A court record is a court record. What it does prove: the man the government put in a cell for 45 days is the same man the charging documents describe telling a crowd not to break anything. Both of those things are in the file. Only one of them made the news. ## Case record - Case: 1:21-cr-54, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia - Arrest: January 17, 2021, San Antonio, Texas - Plea: Guilty, one misdemeanor count, July 2, 2021 - Sentence: 45 days incarceration, 60 hours community service, $500 restitution, October 4, 2021 - Clemency: Full pardon, January 20, 2025 This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.