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Nicholas Von Keudell

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Nicholas Von Keudell of Hampshire, Illinois is a Kane County man whose January 6 story is, at its heart, a family story — he traveled to Washington with his mother, and his aunt was there too. The government's own case shows how small this one was. FACT: Nicholas Von Keudell was charged with four misdemeanors only — entering a restricted building, disorderly conduct, and parading counts. No violence alleged. No weapon. No damage. FACT: Video the government cited shows him inside for a stretch of the afternoon; at one point he was turned away by officers when he tried to reenter — and he left. FACT: He was not arrested until June 15, 2023 — nearly two and a half years after the fact. FACT: He resolved it like his family did: with a plea deal, reported by ABC7 Chicago as an example of how the government pursued even nonviolent participants. His mother and aunt had each already been sentenced to probation for misdemeanor parading. FACT: On January 20, 2025, the presidential clemency proclamation issued full pardons for January 6 convictions and ordered dismissal of pending cases — closing the book on the Von Keudell family's cases for good. Four misdemeanors, no violence, a family that faced it together. That is the record on Nicholas Von Keudell of Hampshire, Illinois. CASE RECORD Case No. 23-mj-124, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Complaint filed June 9, 2023. Arrested June 15, 2023. Covered by the January 20, 2025 clemency proclamation. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.