Oath Keepers Founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes Convicted Of Seditious Conspiracy
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Rhodes numbered among five defendants in the monumental trial surrounding the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
Two out of five defendants linked to the far-right Oath Keepers group were found guilty on seditious conspiracy charges Tuesday in what was the government’s highest-stakes Capitol riot trial held so far.
The Oath Keepers’ founder, Elmer Stewart Rhodes, and a member who ran the Florida chapter, Kelly Meggs, were both found guilty in a verdict that came after three days of deliberations. On other charges, however, the jury was mixed, finding Rhodes guilty of obstructing an official proceeding but not guilty of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. Meggs was guilty of both of those.
The three other defendants were found guilty on lesser charges.
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