WASHINGTON — A former Republican candidate who lost his race for mayor in Connecticut last year was sentenced Wednesday to 10 days of incarceration for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Gino DiGiovanni Jr. admitted he entered the Capitol after he was confronted by NBC Connecticut in October 2022 after he was identified by online 'sedition hunters' who have aided hundreds of cases against Capitol rioters.
'Thirty days of incarceration for that conviction is amply warranted here: DiGiovanni entered the United States Capitol building despite obvious signs that he should not ; he remained in the Capitol for over twenty minutes and then stayed even longer on Capitol Grounds to celebrate the mob’s breach of the Capitol building; and he has failed express real remorse or recognition of the import of his actions from that day,' they wrote. At the hearing on Wednesday before Chief Judge James E.