Philip Sean Grillo, a former district leader for the Queens County Republican Party, was convicted last December for his involvement in the events of January 6 at the Capitol. His charges included obstruction of an official proceeding, a felony, and misdemeanor offenses of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
CNN’s Katelyn Polantz described the courtroom incident:
This was an extraordinary scene in the D.C. District Court where hundreds of these rioter cases have been handled. He was being sentenced for nonviolent [crimes], but felonies today in federal court. And the judge, Judge Royce Lamberth –the judge who sat on that bench the longest and is nearing…
