Christopher Quaglin

Chris and Moira had their first child, a son, in 2019. They continued to manage Chris’s diet so he could live a healthy and pain free life.  Chris had never been in trouble with the law.

Chris became an excellent provider.  Moira worked hard as well so that they were able to refinance their existing mortgage which enabled Chris to complete an expansion of their existing home to accommodate the birth of their first child, a son, inFebruary, 2021.  This achievement exhausted nearly all their savings, but they believed that together they could financially manage.  

On November 3, 2020, Chris and Moira watched in horror as the election results went from a comfortable Trump lead to a cessation of counting and then several hours later, a comfortable Biden lead.  They had never seen this before.  It was disturbing.

Chris went to the rally in support of President Donald J. Trump.  After attending the rally, Chris made his way to the U.S. Capitol grounds   The DOJ maintains that Chris assaulted multiple law enforcement officers guarding and protecting the Capitol from rioters.  After tear gas was thrown into the crowd, Chris tried to dissuade the police from crushing protestors. Body worn-camera footage shows Chris wearing protective gear including a helmet and gas mask, shouting to police, “You don’t want this fight. You do not want this f****** fight. You are on the wrong f****** side.”

According to court documents, surveillance video from that day shows Chris pointing at and shoving a United States Capitol Police (USCP) officer on the lower west terrace while appearing increasingly agitated. Chris can be seen grabbing and pushing the officer by the neck before working with other rioters to rip one of the barrier fences out of the hands of MPD officers. Around 2:34 p.m., body-worn camera footage captured Chris lunging at an officer and pushing him down.

 At 3:03 p.m., Chris entered the lower west terrace tunnel in order to gain entry into the Capitol. Chris remained on the front line of rioters until approximately 3:18 p.m. when he was pushed out of the tunnel with other rioters. 

Chris never entered the Capitol.

Chris was arrested at his home in New Brunswick on April 7th, 2021.He was initially arraigned and released by the judge to home restriction with an allowance to work.  However, the DOJ attorneys based in DC successfully appealed the New Jersey judge’s ruling in the appellate courts in Washington DC.Chris was denied home detention and sent to the Federal detention center in Newark, NJ.  As it turned out shortly after the birth of their son, Chris was taken from Moira and their son, Sam.  Since his arrest and subsequent incarceration, Chris is no longer able to provide financially for his family. He was transferred four times after this with no accommodations for his health. It was only after Chris sent a written urgent appeal to the Warden of the facility outlining that his medical condition requiring the need for gluten free meals was the decision made to transfer him once again. It is his contention that Chris was transferred to the Washington detention center as a direct retaliatory response to his request.  Because the Washington detention center is like a scene from Midnight Express: moldy walls, low nutrient meals and dangerous.  During this period of thirteen months Chris had to purchase much of his own food, all accommodation requests were ignored.But worst of all, due to Covid-19 restrictions, he was not allowed to see his wife or son in person for months.

Chris has been detained at eight different jail facilities since his arrest and continues to experience threats to his health due to his disease, and the inability to consume food prepared by the jail facilities.  The facilities REFUSED to accommodate Chris’s need for a gluten free diet.  Celiac’s disease can be fatal without a proper diet.Chris has been eating protein bars and drinking Ensure.  He has lost 150 pounds since incarceration.

Chris has been denied bond multiple times over the past 20 months.  He has not been allowed visits with his family members, has very limited access to his discovery materials, has been the victim of violent attacks by other inmates, denied reasonable medical care, and singled out for retaliation by prison staff and senior management. 

His trial was held in July of 2023, more than two years after his arrest.  Wait, what about his right to a speedy trial?  The Feds can ignore the rights of J6ers as they are labeled “domestic terrorists.”  They use this label so that the Constitution no longer applies due to the Patriot Act of 2002.  Most of Congress still supports this unconstitutional evil.

Chris needs both spiritual and financial support.

Not knowing what to do or how to proceed after his initial arrest, Chris reached out to friends and family to ask for both financial assistance and help with identifying local legal counsel.  He subsequently engaged a New Jersey attorney who stated emphatically that he would be able to get Chris released to his family with an allowance for Chris to continue working.  In addition, the attorney stated that he believed Chris would eventually be absolved of most, if not all, of the charges being leveled against him.  However, to accomplish this, the attorney, Joseph McBride, demanded pre-payment of $125,000 which was to cover his entire legal fee from Chris’ arraignment through final trial.  Chris’ supporters, albeit extremely reluctant to comply with the attorney’s outlandish demand, paid the full amount in advance.  During the process of arraignment thru the initial appeal of the DC court’s decision not to release Chris, it became abundantly clear to Chris and his supporters that his attorney had to be replaced since he failed to deliver on any of his promises.  At this point and after receiving multiple requests from the family the attorney has refused to return any funds paid to him by the family.

As you can imagine the above outcomes have devastated Chris and his family.  Fortunately, Chris has been able to obtain new legal representation. Despite Chris’ family and friends having already paid legal fees and expenses to date of $205,000, the family must now cope with an ever-increasing financial burden and struggle. 

Chris was indicted on the first round of charges April 16, 2021, and then indicted on a second round of charges on June 16, 2021 of that year.

He wrote this:  Note from Chris: “The FBI offered me, “No Charges” if I cooperated with the FBI. I refused. Charges went from 3 to 14 felony charges after being superseded 5 times. I was refused bail time and time again, while I was moved 7-times from jail to jail. I lost close to 200 pounds combined because of an autoimmune disease to wheat and the jails lack of care or understanding. I was thrown in the hole for over 6-months. Hundreds of people called the marshals and federal authorities on my behalf due to ongoing mistreatment and abuse by prison employees. The judge nor the marshals seem to care to help. At this point, I have lost my wife, child, house, everything. I saw something I shouldn’t have seen on January 6, 2021, so the feds are trying to keep me quiet by threatening me with over 17 years of prison.”

He was found guilty July 10 of 2023 of 14 charges, including 12 felonies and two misdemeanors, said U.S. Attorneys.  He has been in prison for over two years and has lost 150 pounds.