2026-08-07T16:50:06.404Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：福尔摩斯·莱布兰德
3小时前
发布于 2026年8月7日美国东部时间下午12:50
国会山骚乱 国会山事件 联邦机构 唐纳德·特朗普
美国华盛顿特区联邦地区法院
在原本用于赔偿所谓政府法律战受害者的17.76亿美元基金彻底泡汤后，检察官表示，他们无需将赔偿款退还给一名已获得赦免的2021年1月6日国会山骚乱被告人。
一切都源于她从未对自己的定罪提出上诉。
检察官对哪些人有资格获得此类罚款返还或减免采取了严格的限定标准。这些罚款是国会山骚乱被告人刑期的一部分，用于资助修复骚乱期间受损的国会大厦。
美国司法部试图扣留国会山骚乱参与者费利西娅·科诺尔德缴纳的2000美元罚款，这与拜登政府此前颇具争议的向特朗普所称的遭司法部政治迫害的人群发放赔偿的做法形成鲜明对比。科诺尔德是一名亚利桑那州女性，已对骚乱期间阻碍执法的罪名认罪。
CNN试图联系科诺尔德置评。
2020年特朗普的税务信息遭泄露后，美国国税局与特朗普达成了一项曲折的和解协议。司法部今年早些时候宣布，将设立近18亿美元的基金，用于赔偿那些声称过去遭受过政治迫害的受害者。该基金很快遭到两党议员的抨击，也成为代理司法部长托德·布兰奇争取参议院确认正式出任司法部部长的长期斗争中的一个争议点。
议员们担忧，这笔基金可能被用于向袭击国会大厦、迫使整个国会疏散避险的人发放款项。
布兰奇在基金成立后不久就宣布将取消该基金，最终还是顺从了一小撮共和党参议员的要求，在一份宣誓声明中宣布该基金已彻底废止。
2026年5月19日，美国代理司法部长托德·布兰奇在华盛顿特区参议院拨款小组委员会关于18亿美元纳税人基金的听证会上发言。
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这位代理司法部长转而建议所谓的受害者可以提起民事诉讼，以就司法部过去所谓的不当行为获得赔偿。事实证明，这一做法近几个月来对多名特朗普盟友奏效。
谁能获得赔偿？原因何在？
除了已被定罪并获得赦免的骚乱参与者能否获得未来和解赔偿的问题之外，部分国会山骚乱参与者已经尝试追回他们在判刑时缴纳的、用于国会大厦修复的款项。
科诺尔德就是其中之一。骚乱当天，她加入了骄傲男孩组织的游行队伍前往国会大厦，也是首批突破警方路障的人员之一。她被判处45天监禁，并被责令缴纳赔偿款。
周四，检察官在一份文件中写道，科诺尔德“无法追回这些款项，因为她的定罪在赦免时已经生效，且未被撤销”。
2021年1月6日，在与唐纳德·特朗普总统参加集会后，支持特朗普的支持者冲击美国国会大厦。
塞缪尔·科鲁姆/盖蒂图片社
其他已对定罪提出上诉的骚乱参与者已经获得司法部的许可，无需再缴纳赔偿款。在法庭文件中，检察官的立场是：如果骚乱者在特朗普发布全面赦免时上诉仍在进行中，那么他们就无需再缴纳罚款。
华盛顿特区上诉法院正在审理这一问题，此前有多名在特朗普赦免时定罪尚未最终确定的国会山骚乱参与者要求返还赔偿款。
去年8月，一名联邦法官作出首例裁决，允许一名国会山骚乱被告人拿回赔偿款。
在解释该裁决的意见书中，约翰·D·贝茨法官写道，他并未认定被告人伊冯·圣西尔“对其所定罪的罪名无罪”。
“有时法官需要依法行事，即便这可能看似与正义或个人最初的直觉相悖，”贝茨写道。
A pardoned Capitol riot defendant wants her restitution money back. The Justice Department wants to keep it
2026-08-07T16:50:06.404Z / CNN
By Holmes Lybrand
3 hr ago
PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2026, 12:50 PM ET
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Prosecutors identified Felicia Konold in a video still from January 6, 2021. Also seen is who they said was her displaying a Proud Boys membership coin.
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
After the protracted demise of the $1.776 billion fund meant to pay perceived victims of government lawfare, prosecutors say they don’t have to give a now-pardoned January 6, 2021, defendant her restitution money back.
It’s all because she never appealed her conviction.
Prosecutors have taken a narrow approach to who is, and who is not, eligible for such a refund or waiver for the fines that were built into January 6 defendants’ sentences to help fund repairs to the Capitol building from damage done during the attack.
The Justice Department’s fight to keep the $2000 in fines paid by riot defendant Felicia Konold — an Arizona woman who pleaded guilty to obstructing law enforcement during the attack — stands in contrast to the administration’s controversial effort to give payouts to the same group of people who Trump has said were victims of DOJ weaponization.
CNN attempted to reach Konold for comment.
As part of a contorted settlement between the IRS and President Donald Trump over his leaked tax information in 2020, the Justice Department announced earlier this year it would establish the nearly $1.8 billion fund for those alleged victims of weaponized prosecutions in the past. The fund was quickly panned by Republican and Democratic lawmakers, and became a sticking point in the long battle over Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s effort to get confirmed by the Senate to formally take the top spot at DOJ.
Lawmakers focused on the notion that the fund could be used to give payments to those who attacked the Capitol and forced the entire Congress to evacuate for safety.
Blanche, who announced the fund would be nixed shortly after its formation, eventually ceded to demands by a small contingent of Republican senators to announce in a sworn declaration the fund was dead.
Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing regarding $1.8 billion taxpayer fund in Washington, DC, on May 19, 2026.
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The Acting Attorney General has instead suggested that supposed victims could file civil lawsuits in order to receive payments for alleged past wrongs by the Justice Department — an approach that has proved successful for several Trump allies in recent months.
Who gets what, and why?
Beyond questions of future settlements for those convicted in the attack and now pardoned, some January 6 participants have tried to get back funds they paid as part of their sentencing to fund the multi-million dollar repairs to the Capitol.
Konold, who is one of them, joined a group of Proud Boys marching to the Capitol the day of the attack and was among the first to breach police barricades. She was sentenced to 45 days in prison and ordered to pay the restitution.
On Thursday, prosecutors wrote in a filing that Konold “cannot obtain the return of these funds because her conviction was final at the time of the pardon and has not been vacated.”
Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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Other participants in the attack who appealed their conviction have been given the Justice Department’s blessing to dismiss the restitution payments. In court filings, prosecutors have taken the stance that if an appeal was pending at the time a rioter was pardoned by Trump, they no longer needed to pay up.
The Appeals Court in DC is weighing the issue after a handful of January 6 rioters whose convictions were not finalized before Trump’s blanket pardons have fought to have the restitution payments returned.
In August of last year, a federal judge made the first ruling that a January 6 defendant would get her restitution payments back.
In an opinion explaining his decision, Judge John D. Bates wrote that he had not determined the defendant, Yvonne St Cyr “innocent of the crimes for which she was convicted.”
“Sometimes a judge is called upon to do what the law requires, even if it may seem at odds with what justice or one’s initial instincts might warrant,” Bates wrote.
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