A 21-year-old York County man who encouraged the mob to breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 has pleaded guilty.
At the time of the riot, Elliot Bishai — who pleaded guilty Monday to entering a restricted Capitol area — was urging the mob on and taking cell phone videos of people scaling the Capitol walls to enter the supposedly secure building.
Court evidence showed Bishai encouraged the mob by yelling, “Let’s go! Let’s go! You got it,” and shouting, “Civil War 2!”
With a friend, Citadel student Elias Irizarry, Bishai then followed the mob through a broken window next to the U.S. Senate wing and entered a conference room, where he sat in a chair, according to a partial statement of his offense read by the judge during Monday’s hearing.
After, Bishai and Irizarry went to the Capitol crypt — a quiet vaulted space containing statues representing the 13 original colonies — where he took photos of Irizarry, the judge read.
They then entered the Capitol Rotunda, where Bishai and Irizarry climbed on top of statues and took selfies.
Bishai admitted that the narrative of the events read in court by Judge Tanya Chutkin Monday were true.
Bishai,who has no criminal record, faces a maximum of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine for his offense of remaining or entering in a restricted area within the U.S. Capitol.
In return for his guilty plea, other charges were dropped against Bishai.
He will be sentenced on July 29 by Chutkan. He will be out on bond until then.
Elliott Bishai in the middle and Eliaz Irizarry, a Citadel student, on the right were among South Carolinians linked to the U.S. Capitol mob attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Bishai appeared virtually before the judge Monday from Lexington, Virginia, where he works as a firefighter for a company that does work for the U.S. Forest Service. At the time of his arrest, he had been planning to join the U.S. Army and become a helicopter pilot.
Bishai’s alleged accomplice, Irizarry, has…
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