Jeremy Bertino

Jeremy Bertino (born 1979 or 1980) is an American convicted seditionist and a former member of the Proud Boys who testified against Enrique Tarrio during his trial for seditious conspiracy for his role in the 2021 United States Capitol attack. Bertino was the first Proud Boys member to plead guilty to the same charge. On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump commuted his sentence to time served. However, when the Justice Department moved on April 14, 2026 to dismiss the convictions of Bertino's associates, it excluded Bertino.

Early life

Bertino was born . In 2004, he was found guilty of reckless endangerment and briefly was jailed in New York State and sentenced to five years of probation. He later lived in Belmont, North Carolina. As a Proud Boys member, he did a media interview in 2021.

Bertino did not attend the January 6, 2021, riot due to a stabbing injury that he received on December 12, 2020, on that day, Bertino, along with other Proud Boys and far-right activists, attacked the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. He used digital communications to support the insurrectionists on January 6. after two AR-15 style rifles, two pistols, a shotgun, and a rifle were confiscated from his home by the FBI.

In June 2023, District of Columbia Superior Court judge Neal E. Kravitz imposed civil penalties of over $1 million on Bertino and three others, Enrique Tarrio, Joe Biggs and John Turano in connection with the 2020 attack on the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. Kravitz said that the four men had engaged in "hateful and overtly racist conduct".