Maryann Mooney-Rondon and her son, Rafael Rondon, have been sentenced on Wednesday for aiding within the theft of former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop computer in the course of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, receiving 12 and 18 months of dwelling incarceration, respectively.
Throughout sentencing, U.S. District Choose Jia Cobb referred to their case as a “troublesome” one, in keeping with NBC Information, saying that neither of the defendants have been “prison masterminds” and describing their actions on the day in query as being “juvenile.”
Previous to being handed down their time, Rondon admitted to the FBI that “he helped a person who was attempting to tear cords out of Pelosi’s laptop computer, which she used for Zoom conferences,” per the outlet’s reporting, saying “that was in all probability silly of me.” And Mooney-Rondon “admitted that she helped a person who took the laptop computer, giving him gloves so he would not depart fingerprints behind,” calling it “a really unhealthy lapse of judgment.”
“I’m a really — usually — measured, calculated individual. I feel issues by means of. How on earth that occurred, I actually don’t have a clue,” the mom stated. In an announcement made previous to sentencing, she mirrored additional, saying, “I used to be the grownup within the room and I failed. I’ve introduced embarrassment to my household.”
