James Brady, a 33-year-old iron worker who helped construct 1 World Trade Center, and Andrew Rossig, 34, were each sentenced to conditional discharge with a $2,000 fine Monday, about two months after they were found guilty of the misdemeanors.
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Rossig was sentenced to 200 hours of community service. Another man, Marko Markovich, was also convicted and is scheduled to be sentenced on August. 17.
Their stunt in the early hours of September 30, 2013 has been watched by more than 3.5 million people on YouTube.
Manhattan prosecutors slammed the men for, as they described it, failing to acknowledge the danger of cost of their actions despite almost two years of legal proceedings.
The judge said their apologies were “hard to reconcile” with videos posted on YouTube and a follow-up interview in Maxim magazine, which the prosecution brandished in court.
The jumps caused considerable embarrassment to authorities over security at the building, the tallest in the United States. They then picked up equipment left by Brady, who worked as an iron worker at the construction site, and parachuted off of the building one by one. Brady received 200 hours.
Brady and Rossig were found guilty by a jury in June of misdemeanors that included reckless endangerment and unauthorized jumping.
Cameras attached to their helmet captured the dramatic jump (pictured).
‘It didn’t save anyone, make the world a better place or protect our country, ‘ he said, according to CBS New York.
The skyscraper stands on the location where more than 2,700 people were killed on September.
“These defendants tarnished the building before it even opened and sullied the memories of those who jumped on 9/11, not for sport but because they had to”, Merchan said.
Rossing and Brady both apologized for the stunt. They said it took a “disturbing degree of forethought and planning”, and that “at every step they knew what they were doing was wrong”.
“We’re sorry for what we did”, Rossig told the judge.
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“This is a case we were trying to resolve from the beginning with this exact resolution”, said Rossig’s lawyer, Timothy Parlatore.
