Katherine Pompilio

And then to make matters more difficult, the DOJ has been deleting recently Jan 6th defendant records, which lawfare has been archiving.

But also, you know, there's the sheer volume of pardons, 1600 people kind of creates this diffusion of attention.

So the story is told in little drips that are never aggregated.

I had a lot of quirky phone calls with a lot of quirky county clerks who were like so excited to talk about this.

The first thing I did was...

We did hyper-local news searches.

So when you Google these people, a lot of the news reporting on them is not the Times, it's not the Post, it's the Winchester Star.

And so you have to go through a bunch of searches to find them.

So we used Cloud to automate those searches on Google.

And from there, I found those 97 people.

Also worth noting that this data is just out there in news stories, but also in sentencing memoranda in the federal cases.

Anybody that has been sentenced in their Jan 6 case has a little paragraph written about them by prosecutors titled characteristics of the defendant.

And in there for at least I think at least 10 of the people that I have listed here, it outlined crimes committed since the Jan 6 attack that were unrelated to the attack.

Yeah, 100%.

They were still good people out there.

They're still good people.

And they were so excited to talk about this.

There was one guy who I have in the piece who calls them periodically to give them updates on his life that they don't ask for.

So he's allegedly in Vietnam, but we don't know.

No, the crimes range, honestly, from everything from murder, rape, CSAM possession, child sexual exploitation to we had one jaywalking charge.