Mainer opens up about role in Jan. 6 Capitol attack [Video]

Matthew Brackley returned to his electrical business after serving a fraction of his 15-month prison sentence for assaulting police at the U.S. Capitol.

WEST BATH, Maine — Matthew Brackley sat in the second-floor office of his electrical company on Wednesday as if he had never left.

But just earlier this week, he was in a federal prison in Massachusetts, serving a 15-month sentence for assaulting law enforcement during the Capitol riot.

Then the news broke Monday afternoon.

Early the next morning, he was free, released as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardon of roughly 1,500 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack, where a mob breached the U.S. Capitol to stop the certification of former President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. Around 140 police officers were injured as a result.

With Trump back in office for a second term, Brackley said he was expecting clemency on his first day back in …