Michael Stepakoff News Today

Hundreds of people were charged for their alleged role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. More were rounded up in Florida than any other state and many of the people arrested, charged and sentenced to prison were in the Tampa Bay area, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

More than 800 people have been arrested for their alleged role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Of those 800, more have been rounded up in Florida than any other state and many of the people arrested, charged and sentenced to prison were in the Tampa Bay area, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras also sentenced Stepakoff, 56, to one year of probation, as well as ordered him to perform 60 hours of community service.

A former criminal defense attorney who founded a Messianic synagogue in Florida has been sentenced to two months of home confinement for joining the mob.

A former criminal defense attorney who founded a Messianic synagogue in Florida was sentenced Thursday to two months of home confinement for joining the mob that stormed the Capitol last year.

A former criminal defense attorney who founded a Messianic synagogue in Florida was sentenced Thursday to two months of home confinement for joining the mob...

A former criminal defense attorney who founded a Messianic synagogue in Florida was sentenced Thursday to two months of home confinement for joining the mob that stormed the Capitol last year.

Michael Stepakoff, who pleaded guilty in the Capitol riot, compared his case to a woman who protested Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

/ Several Capitol rioters were identified using the building’s surveillance footage. In this screenshot from an FBI affidavit, Florida resident and far-right group Oath Keepers member Connie Meggs is circled in red. The charges range from violent and disorderly conduct to theft of government property. Two months ago, a man was photographed walking with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern hefted over his shoulder in the U.S. Capitol. He was among the throngs who entered the building, but ...

He was among the throngs who entered the building, but a photo of him carrying the lectern, smiling and waving at the camera, became an internet favorite. Nicknamed “lectern guy,” the man would later be identified as Adam Johnson from Bradenton, Florida – and he wouldn’t be the only Floridian arrested during or after the siege.  Now, weeks later, twenty-three Floridians have been charged in the Jan. 6 raid on the Capitol, representing nearly one-in-10 of the total. That puts the state ...