Former Proud Boys member Joseph Biggs was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday for a failed plot to keep Donald Trump in power after the last presidential election, part one of the most significant prosecutions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of at least 27 years for the organizer for the far-right extremist group, which would have been the longest so far in connection with the Capitol riot.
“I know that I messed up that day,” Biggs told District Judge Timothy Kelly just before being sentenced, “but I’m not
