Paul Allard Hodgkins is the second person to plead guilty so far. He admitted that he was in the Senate during the riots.

On Wednesday, a man in Florida became the second person so far to plead guilty for a role involved. Rush into the U.S. Capitol On January 6, he entered the U.S. Senate wearing a Trump T-shirt and waved a red flag that read “Trump 2020.”

Paul Allard Hodgkins pleaded guilty at a virtual hearing to one count of obstructing formal proceedings in the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC.

Hodgkins told the judge: “I have decided to accept this guilty plea proposal, and I will plead guilty.”

According to the statement of facts attached to the criminal lawsuit, FBI agents interviewed Hodgkins on January 26 and showed him “two photos”. The first was a “selfie” photo of him in a Senate well. From [a confidential witness]The second photo is another photo of the Senate. Hodgkins “confessed to the interviewing agent that he is the person in the photo.”

The images contained in the fact statement, one of which appears to be from the New Yorker, shows Hodgkins standing next to a man in tactical gear on the Senate podium (PDF).

More than 440 people have been charged in connection with the Capitol riots, including a large number of supporters of former President Donald Trump-many of them are part of it Extreme right movement -Enter the Capitol to prevent Congress from proving President Joe Biden’s election victory and defeat.

The only person who has pleaded guilty so far is Jon Shafer, The founder of the band Iced Earth and a founding member of the Oath Guardian Militia.

The hearing on Wednesday was held at the same time as Christopher M Kelly, another defendant in the Capitol riots, and all charges against him were dropped after there was evidence that he had never set foot in the building.

Kelly was the first defendant to have all charges dropped in the Capitol riots.

Lingering effect

In the months following the November poll that Biden won, Trump and his supporters have repeatedly refuted theories that voter fraud caused him to lose the election.

Five people died after the riots. The Biden administration has instructed federal law enforcement agencies to focus on far-right and anti-government threats.

A kind Most of Trump’s supporters Keep the election stolen.

The effects of the riots are still being felt in Washington, DC.Legislator Fought Discuss the facts of the day at the hearing.

Democrats are seeking a way to investigate what happened the day after Senate Republicans Prevented a separate probe Enter the topic of last week. According to CBS News, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi suggested four ways forward, including keeping the investigation within a congressional committee.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat from New York, leave the meeting in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Friday, August 7, 2020 [File: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg]

“Senate Republicans chose to defend the’big lie’ because they feared that anything that might upset Donald Trump would hurt them politically,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer blocked the committee in Republicans. Said later.

Hodgkin’s charges are punishable by up to 20 years in prison, but US District Judge Randolph Moss stated that the federal sentencing guidelines require a sentence of 15 to 21 months.