'Shield Grampy' sentenced to prison by judge in Trump's Jan. 6 case
The federal judge overseeing presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's Jan. 6 criminal case sentenced a Capitol rioter who assaulted police officers to more than 4.5 years in prison.
WASHINGTON — The federal judge overseeing presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's Jan. 6 criminal case sentenced a Capitol rioter who assaulted police officers to more than 4½ years in prison Thursday.
Anthony Mastanduno — known to online sleuths as "Shield Grampy" — pleaded guilty to nine criminal offenses in March, which was when Trump was originally supposed to be on trial in his own Capitol attack case under the trial schedule laid out by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan back in August. (Trump's case was paused as the Supreme Court considers his immunity claim.)
Mastanduno, 61, was arrested in August, a few weeks after Trump was arrested in the Jan. 6 case brought by special counsel Jack Smith.
But Mastanduno's case has not been subjected to the same delays as the Trump case. Chutkan ordered Mastanduno into custody after he pleaded guilty in March. Trump, by comparison, is appearing Thursday night at a debate with President Joe Biden.
Anthony Mastanduno at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.U.S. District Court for the District of ColumbiaFederal prosecutors had argued for six years behind bars for Mastanduno, saying he "participated in some of the worst violence inflicted upon law enforcement officers at the Lower West Terrace Tunnel during the assault on the United States Capitol."
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