There were 4 Oathkeepers sentenced on Friday, but only one made the DOJ updates. I will add them here when they are available. This one is pretty unsettling as the judge totally downgraded her sentencing... see 3)
Sentenced 1) Laura Young Steele AKA Laura Steele North Carolina, Oathkeepers, retired Police officer/Swat team member… She is married to Kenneth Steele, who has been assistant police chief for the High Point Police Department and Sister to Gradon Young, Oathkeeper … January 03, Young emailed his sister Laura Steele and “encouraged [her] to join the Oath Keepers.” (Which she did… completed an application) Initial charges: Conspiracy; Obstruction of an Official Proceeding and Aiding and Abetting; Destruction of Government Property and Aiding and Abetting; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds
The defendant remains on personal recognizance in high intensity supervision program. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1369076/download **Indicted on four (4) counts https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1369071/download 2nd superseding indictment describes the overt conspiracy. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1378526/download 3rd superseding indictment. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/press-release/file/1382471/download Fourth superseding indictment. The defendant remains on personal recognizance in high intensity supervision program. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/press-release/file/1401076/download FIFTH! superseding indictment. ADDS: civil disorder and tampering with documents and aiding and abetting. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/press-release/file/1422696/download Jury trials set for 1/31/22 at 10 am and 4/19/22 at 10 am. Defendant remains on personal recognizance. 7th superseding indictment. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1471106/download 8th Superseding indictment 6-22-22 https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1515131/download
Laura Steele and her brother Graydon Young
2) Jury found her guilty of conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, a felony, obstructing officers during a civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiring to prevent an officer of the United States from discharging a duty and destruction of government property, all felonies, tampering with evidence, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds. Judge Kelly presiding.
3) Sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison, six months of home confinement, and 36 months of supervised release. (As a contrast, see some of her fellow oathkeepers sentences here: https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/forum/main/comment/60422bd6-92b5-4b35-b970-7440907702fb
On August 14th, the DOJ released a 63 page memo urging an 8-10-year sentence for Laura Steele. 'Steele’s lawyers maintained she was simply a follower of her brother and right-wing pundits who exacerbated fears as “the faithful” watched Trump’s claims of a stolen election intensify and seemingly come true.' Judge Kelly obviously agreed, even though her actions were CRIMINAL... and more egregious than her brother's, FFS.
During a February hearing in Tampa Federal Court, Young’s attorney Robert Foley told Magistrate Thomas Wilson the Sarasota business owner was “duped” into joining the right wing, militant Oath Keepers a month before the insurrection. She helped lead a military stack formation up the Capitol steps through a mob of Donald Trump supporters." So both brother and sister are claiming they were duped by tRUMP's election lies. Were they also duped into destroying evidence? She will likely be out in time to vote for him again which I bet she will do! https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article279376194.html
4) Steele's brother and co-defendant Graydon Young, who pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy, testified they both used a burn-pit in Steele’s backyard to burn and destroy evidence of their involvement in the attack on the Capitol. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/fifth-superseding-indictment-unsealed-oath-keeper-conspiracy-case-related-jan-6-capitol