A Capitol Police officer who tried to help a Jan. 6 rioter avoid detection from law enforcement was sentenced to 120 days of home incarceration for obstructing justice.
Michael Riley, a 25-year veteran of the Capitol Police who tried to help a Jan. 6 rioter avoid detection from law enforcement, was sentenced Thursday for obstructing justice. | Jose Luis Magana/AP PhotoA Capitol Police officer who tried to help a Jan. 6 rioter avoid detection from law enforcement was sentenced Thursday to 120 days of home incarceration for obstructing justice.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said she appreciated Riley’s remorse but tore into the retired officer for what she said was a pattern of dishonesty about the brazenness of his conduct. She said he lied to colleagues about his contact with the Jan. 6 rioter — a fisherman from Virginia named Jacob Hiles whoin 2021 — and misrepresented his actions both on the witness stand and even in the chronology he laid out during his sentencing hearing.
It’s the close of a complicated and wrenching chapter in the arc of Jan. 6 prosecutions. Riley was convicted last year of obstruction of justice for deleting his Facebook messages. The jury deadlocked on a second obstruction charge related to his contact with Hiles.followed intense, but so far unsupported, concerns among members of Congress that some Capitol Police officers may have sympathized with and even assisted the Jan. 6 mob at the Capitol.
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