A New York therapeutic massage therapist who joined Trump-supporting rioters in storming the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Tuesday to 3 months in jail after he dodged courtroom hearings, insulted a prosecutor and verbally attacked the decide who punished him. In response to the Related Press, Frank Giustino pleaded responsible in February to a misdemeanor cost associated to the Jan. 6 riot however was arrested final month after failing to look in courtroom for a beforehand scheduled sentencing listening to.
U.S. District Decide James Boasberg admonished Giustino on Tuesday, stating that he appeared to don’t have any regret for his conduct through the assault or any respect for the nation’s authority. “Your habits from the second of the (responsible) plea till sentencing has been concerning the worst of any January sixth defendant I’ve had,” the decide stated. Giustino, nonetheless, stated he condemned the violence and did not intend to be disrespectful. “I simply need to go residence,” stated Giustino, who will stay in custody for about two extra months after receiving a roughly 30-day credit score for the time he has been detained whereas awaiting a sentence.
Prosecutors beneficial a four-month jail stint for Giustino. They’d initially requested a 21-day sentence however pursued a long run of incarceration after the therapeutic massage therapist defiantly disrupted a June 23 courtroom listening to. Throughout that continuing, Giustino dubbed his case “an absolute clown present of a prosecution,” used language that appeared to reference the sovereign citizen extremist motion’s consider that the U.S. authorities is illegitimate, and stated, “Why don’t I difficulty a warrant to your arrest?” after the decide threatened to order one in opposition to him due to his courtroom conduct.