A pardoned January 6 rioter has been charged with sex crimes against two children. Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old, joining a growing list of Capitol rioters pardoned by President Trump who now face new legal trouble.

Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money because, Johnson claimed, he was entitled to $10 million dollars as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest, according to a police report from a Hernando County, Florida, Sheriff’s Department detective.

Those convicted and later pardoned for involvement in the Jan. 6 riot have not been rewarded any reparations, though Trump and January 6 rioters have floated the idea of a compensation

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