On Wednesday, former Natick Town Meeting member Suzanne Ianni became the latest Massachusetts resident to plead guilty to crimes related to the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. She’s one of eight Massachusetts residents who have been charged a year and a half later, and faces a maximum of six months in prison and five years’ probation.
Soon after the riot, a petition went live to dismiss Ianni from her position in the Natick Town Meeting. It has since garnered over 1,700 signatures. Natick Select Board chairman Jonathan Freedman told The Boston Globe last year that there was no way to remove an active member from the 180-member governing body. Ianni’s term expired in March.
Ianni is a co-founder of Super Happy Fun America, a group best known for organizing Boston’s Straight Pride Parade in 2019. An online fundraiser set up for her legal fees last year describes Ianni and co-founder Mark Sahady, of Malden, as “patriotic Americans who are facing a legal battle due to peacefully attending the rally in Washington, DC on January 6th.”
Ianni admitted that she entered the Capitol without permission and “willfully and knowingly uttered loud, threatening, or abusive language, or engaged in disorderly or disruptive conduct with the intent to impede, disrupt, or disturb the orderly conduct of a session of Congress,” according to a Statement of Offense submitted in U.S. District Court.
Read on for a full list of Massachusetts residents charged in connection with entering the Capitol on Jan. 6, their charges and their case statuses, as listed on the U.S. Department of Justice’s Capitol Breach Case database:
Charge(s):
Knowingly Entering or Remaining in any Restricted Building or Grounds Without Lawful Authority; Disorderly Conduct on Capitol Grounds
Case Status:
Arrested 1/19/21. Initial appearance held 2/8/21.
Charged via criminal information on 7/2/21.
Superseding information filed 3/22/22.
Pleaded guilty 9/14/22.
Charge(s):
Destruction or Injury to Buildings or Property in Special Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction; Act of Physical Violence on Grounds
Case Status:
Arrested 6/30/21.
Charge(s):
Obstruction of an Official Proceeding; 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; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building
Case Status:
Arrested 2/4/21. Indicted 2/17/21.
Arraigned 2/26/21 where he pleaded not guilty to counts 1-5.
Plea agreement hearing held on 10/14/21 where he pleaded guilty to count 2 of the indictment.
Sentenced 4/1/22 to 36 months of probation, including 42 days of intermittent incarceration and two months of home detention, $2,500 fine, $500 restitution.
Charge(s):
Knowingly Entering or Remaining in any Restricted Building or Grounds without Lawful Authority; Enter or Remain in the Gallery of Either House of Congress; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Violent Entry and Disorderly Conduct on Capitol Grounds; Obstruction of Justice/Congress
Case Status:
Arrested 6/30/2021. Indicted 7/23/2021.
Charge(s):
Entering or Remaining in Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building
Case Status:
Arrested on 1/19/2021 in Boston.
Criminal information issued 2/19/2021.
Sahady pleaded not guilty on all counts. Last status hearing was set for 10/5/2021 at 2:00 p.m.
Charge(s):
Forcibly Assaulting, Resisting, Opposing, Impeding Federal Officers; Obstruction of Law Enforcement During Civil Disorder; Knowingly Entering or Remaining in any Restricted Building or Grounds Without Lawful Authority; Knowingly Engaging in Disorderly or Disruptive Conduct in Restricted Building or Grounds; Knowingly Engaging in Physical Violence in Restricted Building or Grounds; Willfully and Knowingly Engaging in Physical Violence in Capitol Grounds or Buildings
Case Status:
Arrested 3/09/2021. Indicted 3/26/2021.
Superseding indictment filed 11/10/2021.
Pleaded guilty 6/27/22 to all charges in the superseding indictment.
Charge(s):
Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers; Civil Disorder; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Impeding Passage Through the Capitol Grounds or Buildings; Act of Physical Violence in the Capitol Grounds or Buildings; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building
Case Status:
Complaint filed 2/17/22.
Arrested 2/18/22.
Indictment returned 2/25/22.
Charge(s):
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; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building
Case Status:
Complaint Filed 1/14/2022.
Arrested 1/18/2022.
Pleaded guilty to Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building 4/7/22.
Macy Lipkin is an intern with GBH News.
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