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Prosecutors Seek 4 Years for QAnon Shaman

November 10, 2021 at 7:12 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Justice Department is asking for the so-called QAnon Shaman, who wore a headdress and posed shirtless on the Senate floor during the siege of the US Capitol, to be sentenced to a prison term of more than four years, the longest incarceration prosecutors have asked for any guilty January 6 defendant so far,” CNN reports.

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