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Nick DeCarlo

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Before any of this, Nick DeCarlo's job in Fort Worth, Texas was helping people with disabilities find work and keep it. That is what he did for a living. Start there. Nicholas Joseph "Nick" DeCarlo was born February 21, 1990 to Thomas and Virginia DeCarlo and raised mostly in Arizona before the family moved to Fort Worth, Texas. He built his working life around helping others get and hold down jobs. He was also a primary support for both of his parents, who are disabled. (THEIR ACCOUNT: DeCarlo family biography published at AmericanPOWs.com) He then co-founded an independent media outlet called Murder the Media with Nicholas Ochs. That is the piece almost every headline got backwards. "Murder the Media" was the name of their outlet, not a threat. National coverage of his sentencing confirms the phrase was what the two called the channel they ran. Nick DeCarlo went to Washington on January 6 to livestream and conduct interviews for it. (FACT: NBC News, Seattle Times; THEIR ACCOUNT: AmericanPOWs.com) The legal fight. Nick DeCarlo was arrested January 26, 2021 in Burleson, Texas and indicted February 4, 2021. At his February 12, 2021 arraignment he pleaded not guilty to all seven counts. He was released on personal recognizance February 15, 2021 and remained on release. A superseding indictment came February 18, 2022, more than a year later, and he again pleaded not guilty to every count. (FACT: DOJ; AmericanPOWs.com docket summary) On September 9, 2022 he entered a plea to a single count: obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting. On December 9, 2022 Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell sentenced Nicholas DeCarlo to 48 months of incarceration, 36 months of supervised release, a $2,500 fine and $2,000 in restitution. (FACT: DOJ) He served that sentence at FMC Fort Worth. GENERAL LEGAL CONTEXT: The one count Nick DeCarlo actually pleaded guilty to, obstruction of an official proceeding under 18 U.S.C. 1512(c)(2), was narrowed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Fischer v. United States in June 2024. The single charge that sent him to prison for four years was the same statute the Supreme Court later held had been read too broadly. (FACT: Fischer v. United States, U.S. Supreme Court, 2024) On January 20, 2025, the presidential clemency proclamation reached the January 6 cases, including felony convictions like his. His family's ask was never complicated. Nick DeCarlo of Fort Worth has disabled parents and had people depending on him at work. Every year inside was a year those people went without him. CASE RECORD Case number: 1:21-cr-73 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge: Beryl A. Howell, Chief Judge Arrested: January 26, 2021, Burleson, Texas. Indicted February 4, 2021. Released on personal recognizance February 15, 2021. Disposition: Pleaded guilty September 9, 2022 to obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting. Sentenced December 9, 2022 to 48 months incarceration, 36 months supervised release, $2,500 fine, $2,000 restitution. Covered by the January 20, 2025 clemency proclamation. Co-defendant: Nicholas Ochs This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.