{"id":11488,"date":"2025-04-11T18:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T18:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/11488\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T18:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T18:10:07","slug":"pardoned-jan-6-defendants-should-be-paid-back-for-riot-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/11488\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardoned Jan. 6 defendants should be paid back for riot repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Donald Trump pardons around 1,500 Jan. 6 attack defendants<\/p>\n

On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump pardoned about 1,500 people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack at the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/p>\n

Some pardoned Jan. 6, 2021 defendants<\/a> should be reimbursed for the restitution they paid for Capitol repairs, the Department of Justice said in a court filing Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The filing is before U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is weighing former defendant Stacy Hager’s request to be repaid the $500 in restitution he sent to the Architect of the Capitol after his conviction on misdemeanor charges. Hager made the request in February.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government agrees that Hager is entitled to the return of those funds,\u201d Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Dreher wrote in the filing.<\/p>\n

Presidential pardon<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0pardoned more than 1,500 people on his first day<\/a> in office, keeping a campaign promise to release people charged in the\u00a0Capitol attack Jan. 6, 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following Trump\u2019s decision, appeals courts halted all proceedings and \u201cvacated\u201d convictions, essentially erasing them.<\/p>\n

Dreher said that Hager, from Waco, Texas, should be reimbursed because the case was actively being appealed when Trump issued his clemency. Pardoned defendants who did not have active appeals are not entitled to reimbursement because their convictions remain on the books, the Justice Department argued in the filing.<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Capitol repairs<\/p>\n

Most defendants convicted for the Capitol insurrection were required to pay restitution to the Architect of the Capitol, who maintains the building and grounds, to help cover the costs of repairing the estimated $3 million in damage. Those convicted of felonies typically paid $2,000 and those convicted of misdemeanors typically paid $500.<\/p>\n

Work to repair the Capitol began shortly after the attack and it is unclear whether any of the restitution is left, or where it would come from if Chutkan rules that Hager or others must be reimbursed.<\/p>\n

The Architect of the Capitol did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump pardons around 1,500 Jan. 6 attack defendants On his first day back in office, President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[5492,7899,30,7798,188,7902,2438,5483,32,5491,5498,1106,7898,7900,6584,3577,5179,6591,285,1757,1017,7901,7135,5181,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-11488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-branch","9":"tag-capitol","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-courts-u0026-judiciary","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-crime-u0026-justice","14":"tag-department","15":"tag-donald","16":"tag-donald-trump","17":"tag-executive","18":"tag-executive-branch","19":"tag-judiciary","20":"tag-justice","21":"tag-legal","22":"tag-negative","23":"tag-of","24":"tag-overall","25":"tag-overall-negative","26":"tag-politics","27":"tag-trump","28":"tag-u-s","29":"tag-u-s-capitol","30":"tag-u-s-department-of-justice","31":"tag-u0026","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-us","34":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114320678839433368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}