Sentencing postponed for former Proud Boys leader convicted for role in Jan. 6 attack

The sentencings of former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio and a top associate set for Wednesday have been postponed. The pair was set to be sentenced following their convictions last May on charges of seditious conspiracy and several other felonies stemming from their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.

The sentencing hearings for Tarrio and his associate Ethan Nordean were postponed Wednesday morning and have been rescheduled with U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly. Nordean's sentencing will take place Friday, Sept. 1; Tarrio's will be Tuesday, Sept. 5.

Prosecutors are seeking 33 years in prison for Tarrio and 27 years for Nordean, in what would be by far the longest sentences yet handed down for individuals charged in connection with the attack.

"The defendants understood the stakes, and they embraced their role in bringing about a 'revolution,'" prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum to Judge Kelly earlier this month. "They unleashed a force on the Capitol that was calculated to exert their political will on elected officials by force and to undo the results of a democratic election. The foot soldiers of the right aimed to keep their leader in power. They failed. They are not heroes; they are criminals."