Overview

• Lamond was handed an 18-month federal prison term after being convicted of one count of obstruction of justice and three counts of making false statements.
• He warned Tarrio in 2020 about a Metropolitan Police investigation into the burning of a Black Lives Matter banner and then denied their exchanges to investigators.
• Judge Jackson deemed prosecutors’ four-year sentence recommendation excessive and faulted Lamond for showing no genuine remorse.
• Enrique Tarrio attended the sentencing and called on President Trump to pardon Lamond, echoing his own earlier presidential pardon.
• Lamond’s attorneys argued his outreach aimed to gather extremist intelligence, but the judge found his testimony lacked credibility.