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Vincent J. Gillespie

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Vincent J. Gillespie is a lifelong resident of Athol, Massachusetts, and the son of Gregory Gillespie, one of the most respected American realist painters of the postwar era. Small-town New England. An artist family name that hangs in the Met. HIS STORY (FACT, per Boston and national arts press): Vincent Gillespie grew up as the son of Gregory Gillespie, whose self-portraits, fantasy landscapes and geometric works are held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Vincent stayed in western Massachusetts and made his life in Athol, a mill town in Worcester County. He was 61 years old at the time of his trial, one of the older defendants in the entire January 6 docket. THE LEGAL FIGHT (FACT, court record): A complaint was filed February 17, 2022, and Vincent Gillespie was arrested February 18, 2022, at his home in Athol. An indictment was returned February 25, 2022. He did not plead. He took his case to trial in December 2022 and was found guilty on four counts: assaulting, resisting or impeding officers; civil disorder; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; and an act of physical violence on Capitol grounds. On April 14, 2023, he was sentenced to 68 months in federal prison. CLEMENCY (FACT): On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued a full, complete and unconditional pardon covering individuals convicted of offenses related to the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. That clemency covered Vincent J. Gillespie, cutting short a sentence that would have run into 2027. CASE RECORD: Case No. 1:22-cr-60, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Complaint filed 2/17/2022. Arrested 2/18/2022. Indicted 2/25/2022. Convicted at trial December 2022. Sentenced 4/14/2023. Pardoned 1/20/2025. DOJ docket page: justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/gillespie-vincent Sixty-one years old and he made them prove it in front of a jury. Vincent Gillespie is home in Athol. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.