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Nicholas Ortt

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Nicholas Ortt is a Mount Airy, Maryland man. Mount Airy sits on the Frederick and Carroll county line, a small town of a few thousand people about an hour up the road from the Capitol he walked to on January 6, 2021. FACT: Nicholas Ortt was arrested in May 2024, more than three years after January 6, and charged with assaulting law enforcement and other offenses, per the U.S. Department of Justice and the Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center. FACT: He pleaded guilty in 2024 to assaulting law enforcement, per the U.S. Department of Justice. FACT: On September 24, 2024 Nicholas Ortt was sentenced to two years in prison, as reported by WJLA and the Baltimore Sun. Read those three dates again. Arrested in 2024. Sentenced in 2024. For an afternoon in 2021. Nicholas Ortt lived three and a half ordinary years in Mount Airy, Maryland before the case ever reached him. DOCUMENTED INFERENCE: The January 20, 2025 clemency action covered federal January 6 convictions, and CBS Baltimore reported that dozens of Marylanders charged in the Capitol case were covered by it. The archive has not separately confirmed the individual disposition on this docket. If you have that paperwork, send it. WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE: The record here is the charge the government filed and the sentence the court imposed. It is not a measure of the man. Nothing in this file speaks to Nicholas Ortt as a worker, a neighbor, or a father. WHAT IT DOES PROVE: A small-town Maryland man got a two-year federal sentence four years out from the event. Every date in this file is verifiable. The record does not lie. THE CASE RECORD Name: Nicholas Ortt Home: Mount Airy, Maryland Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Arrested: May 2024 Pleaded guilty: 2024 Sentenced: September 24, 2024, two years in prison Case number: not yet recorded in this archive. If you have the docket number, send it. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.