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    It is just after midnight in the states (EST). Someone is running late.

    Just for fun, first.




    The criminal defense lawyer for Steve Bannon said the former Trump White House senior advisor is traveling Wednesday to New York City to prepare to surrender in the morning to face charges in a new indictment.

    The attorney, Robert Costello, said Bannon will turn himself in to authorities at 9 a.m. Thursday.

    Asked for details about the criminal charges Bannon is expected to face, Costello told CNBC by email, “The indictment is sealed.”

    The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, which will prosecute the case, has been investigating Bannon for possible violations of New York state criminal laws in connection with more than $25 million in funds raised for an effort to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.

    Bannon was arrested in August 2020 on federal charges with three other men tied to that effort, which prosecutors said defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors. Federal prosecutors said at the time that Bannon received $1 million in funds from We Build the Wall and that to divert that money used a separate nonprofit he had already created to purportedly promote “economic nationalism and American sovereignty.”

    Bannon never went to trial in that federal case because he received a pardon from then-President Donald Trump right before Trump left office in January 2021. Presidential pardons do not protect people from prosecution on state charges.

    In a statement Tuesday to NBC News, Bannon said New York “has now decided to pursue phony charges against me 60 days before the midterm election.”

    “This is nothing more than a partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system,” he said.

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    Judge denies Sen. Lindsey Graham bid to quash subpoena in Trump Georgia election probe, but puts limit on questions

    A federal judge on Thursday denied Sen. Lindsey Graham’s latest effort to fully quash a subpoena for his testimony before a special grand jury in Georgia as part of its probe into possible criminal election interference by former President Donald Trump and his allies in 2020.

    But the judge also limited the scope of the subpoena by ordering that Graham, a South Carolina Republican and close Trump ally, cannot be asked about his “investigatory fact-finding on telephone calls to Georgia election officials” during his testimony.

    She was referring to phone calls Graham made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff in the weeks after the November 2020 election between Trump and President Joe Biden. Graham’s lawyers have argued that those calls were “quintessentially legislative factfinding” by a sitting U.S. senator, and as such are protected by the speech and debate clause of the Constitution.

    That off-limits topic includes how the information he gathered “related to his decision to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election,” the judge ruled.

    “The Court finds that this area of inquiry falls under the protection of the Speech or Debate Clause, which prohibits questions on legislative activity,” Judge Leigh Martin May wrote in Thursday’s order in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.

    But May rejected Graham’s other arguments to either throw out the subpoena or sharply limit the questions that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ office can ask him.

    “As to the other categories, the Court finds that they are not legislative, and the Speech or Debate Clause does not apply to them,” May wrote.

    “As such, Senator Graham may be questioned about any alleged efforts to encourage Secretary Raffensperger or others to throw out ballots or otherwise alter Georgia’s election practices and procedures,” the judge ordered.

    “Likewise, the grand jury may inquire into Senator Graham’s alleged communications and coordination with the Trump Campaign and its post-election efforts in Georgia, as well as into Senator Graham’s public statements related to Georgia’s 2020 elections,” May wrote.

    Graham’s challenge now goes back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, where the senator filed an appeal after a previous ruling from Judge May denying his bid to quash the subpoena.

    “We are pleased that the district court recognized that Senator Graham’s testimony is protected by the Speech or Debate Clause,” Graham’s office said in a statement later Thursday. “He will continue to defend the institutional interests of the Senate and the Constitution before the Eleventh Circuit.”

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    A Michigan man pleaded guilty today to assaulting law enforcement officers and inflicting bodily injury during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.

    Justin Jersey, 32, of Flint, pleaded guilty in the District of Columbia. According to court documents, on Jan. 6, Jersey was part of a mob that confronted law enforcement officers at the Archway leading into the Capitol Building from the Lower West Terrace.

    At approximately 4:26 p.m., Jersey was on the steps leading to the Archway and carrying a large, gnarled stick. He raised the stick behind his head and moved towards the Archway. Jersey eventually gave the stick to another rioter, but at 4:27 p.m., he sprang at the line of officers.

    Jersey charged at a Metropolitan Police Department officer who was positioned at the opening of the Archway, grabbing his face, and knocking him to the ground. Jersey and the officer then grappled over the officer’s baton.

    Another rioter then kicked the officer, who was still on the ground. As a result of the attack, the officer sustained serious physical injuries, including a laceration to his head, and bruising and abrasions to his body. Jersey, meanwhile, was able to grab another baton and used it to strike other officers in the Archway.

    Jersey was arrested in Flint on Dec. 2, 2021. He is to be sentenced on Feb. 10, 2023. He faces a statutory maximum of 20 years in prison, as well as potential financial penalties. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

    Jersey was arrested after his girlfriend tagged him at the riot in a Facebook post.

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    facing two counts of second-degree money laundering, two counts of fourth-degree conspiracy, one count of first-degree scheme to defraud and one count of fifth-degree conspiracy. = 15 years

    Steve Bannon Turns Himself In To New York Authorities


    • Officials said Steve Bannon was the “architect” of a scheme to defraud donors who gave money to build a wall on the United States-Mexico border.


    Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said at a press conference on Thursday that Bannon and the organization We Build the Wall, Inc., were indicted for a yearlong fundraising scheme that took in more than $15 million from thousands of people across the country based on false pretenses.

    He said Bannon and other leaders of the group promised that all donations to the organization would go toward building a wall on the country’s southern border and “not a penny” would go to paying the salary of the group’s president, Brian Kolfage.

    Bragg said the group’s fundraisers repeatedly used the phrase “not a penny” in soliciting donations through media appearances, emails and social media posts.

    But he said Kolfage received a salary of more than $250,000 that was funded by donations, and at least $140,000 of it was laundered by Bannon. Prosecutors also allege that Bannon used some funds to pay for personal expenses.

    Bragg said Bannon directed We Build the Wall to transfer tens of thousands of dollars at a time to a non-profit company throughout 2019. The company then paid Kolfage’s salary, which obscured the source of the funds, prosecutors allege.

    Bragg said prosecutors in New York began investigating Bannon after he received a pardon from former President Trump in January 2021 for federal charges he faced related in relation to the fundraising scheme.

    “We then began investigating and determined that Mr. Bannon must be held accountable in this jurisdiction, the jurisdiction of New York State, for his conduct as the architect of this scheme, which impacted hundreds of Manhattan residents,” he said.

    Bragg said Bannon and We Build the Wall are facing two counts of second-degree money laundering, two counts of fourth-degree conspiracy, one count of first-degree scheme to defraud and one count of fifth-degree conspiracy.

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    Newly obtained video shows the former head of Coffee County Republicans escorting members of a forensics firm hired by a Trump-allied lawyer into a Georgia elections office shortly before an alleged data breach in January 2021.

    The video, which was obtained by NBC News, shows Cathy Latham, the chairwoman of the Coffee County GOP at the time, greeting and escorting members of the tech firm SullivanStrickler into the office on Jan. 7, 2021, the same day as a data breach that is under investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

    The video shows scenes only from outside the office.

    NBC News has asked Holly Pierson, an attorney for Latham, and SullivanStrickler for comment.

    Latham was one of nearly a dozen of Georgia’s “fake electors” who sought to quash a subpoena to appear before the Fulton County special grand jury that is hearing evidence in a criminal probe into possible 2020 election interference by former President Donald Trump and his allies.

    Latham was identified as a target of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ investigation after she submitted false certifications, along with 15 other people, declaring Trump the winner in Georgia after he lost to Joe Biden.

    The Washington Post has reported that Trump-allied attorney Sidney Powell hired SullivanStrickler to copy information from voting equipment.

    The GBI confirmed last month that it is assisting the Georgia secretary of state’s office with an investigation of an allegation of a breach of elections data in Coffee County, Willis said in a court filing last month. She added that publicly reported emails indicate Powell coordinated with SullivanStrickler to obtain elections data from Coffee County in early January 2021.

    Additional video taken outside the county elections office shows Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan and cybersecurity consultant Jeff Lenberg visiting a few times later in January 2021.

    Cyber Ninjas, which Arizona Republicans hired to lead a partisan review of 2020 ballots in Maricopa County, found that Biden won the county by a greater margin than the official tally.

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    Some old woman is going to jail


    • Colorado clerk Tina Peters pleads not guilty in election security breach case


    Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who lost the GOP nomination for Colorado secretary of state earlier this year, pleaded not guilty to felony and misdemeanor charges Wednesday afternoon, six months after a county grand jury indicted her following an election security breach investigation by local authorities.

    District Judge Matthew Barrett set Peters' trial for March 6, 2023.

    Peters, a 2020 election denier, faces 10 counts -- including three felony counts of attempting to influence a public servant, one felony account of criminal impersonation, two felony counts of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, one felony count of identity theft, and misdemeanor counts for first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty and failing to comply with requirements of the Colorado secretary of state -- after an apparent security breach in Mesa County's elections office in May 2021.

    Last month, Peters' deputy clerk, Belinda Knisley, reached a plea deal with prosecutors in exchange for her cooperation and testimony against Peters. According to the signed plea deal, Knisley told investigators that Peters created a scheme that permitted an unauthorized person access to secure areas inside the clerk's office and to the county's election equipment. Knisley told investigators the individual gained access after he was given a badge fraudulently created by herself and Peters.

    The breach resulted in confidential voting machine logins, and forensic images of their hard drives, being published in a QAnon-affiliated Telegram channel in early August 2021.

    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/07/p...ado/index.html
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    The House January 6 Committee has accused Trump of asking donors after the election to contribute to an allegedly fake “Official Election Defense Fund” that purported to finance Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, but committee lawmakers allege actually just funneled money into the PAC—which has few restrictions on how money can be spent and can more broadly be used to fund Trump’s own expenses and pro-Trump allies and organizations.

    Thousands of dollars in PAC money has flowed back into Trump’s own businesses, and Save America has garnered headlines for such expenditures as a $1 million donation to a group linked to former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, an alleged $60,000 payment to Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle for her speech at the January 6 rally that preceded the Capitol attack, as well as a $60,000 payment to former First Lady Melania Trump’s stylist and funding for her and Trump’s presidential portraits.

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    The Justice Department has subpoenaed two former top White House political advisers under President Donald J. Trump as part of a wider investigation into Mr. Trump’s post-election fundraising efforts and plans for so-called fake voters, according to people informed. are about to matter.

    Brian Jack, the last White House political director under Mr. Trump, and Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s top speechwriter and a senior policy adviser, were among more than a dozen people connected with the former president to receive subpoenas from a federal grand jury this week.

    The subpoenas seek information related to the Save America political action committee and the plan to submit voter rolls pledged to Mr. Trump from swing states won by Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the 2020 election. Mr. Trump and his allies promoted the idea that competing voter lists would justify blocking or delaying certification of Mr Biden’s electoral college victory at a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.

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    Nicholas Ochs, who founded the Hawaii chapter of the far-right extremist group Proud Boys, pleaded guilty to a felony charge Friday in federal court for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington D.C.

    After attending the “Stop The Steal” rally featuring then-president Donald Trump, Ochs, 36, marched to the U.S. Capitol, threw smoke bombs at police and illegally entered the seat of Congress as it was certifying President Joe Biden’s election win, according to a statement of offenses.

    He was joined by Nicholas DeCarlo, 32, of Fort Worth, Texas. Their sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 9. Both men face up to 20 years in prison, as well as potential financial penalties, for obstruction of an official proceeding.

    Ochs traveled from Honolulu to Washington, D.C. for Trump’s rally, during which Trump urged supporters to “fight like hell” or we’re “not going to have a country anymore.”

    On the way to the Capitol, Ochs claimed the election was being stolen and that the men were “going to stop it.” The men smoked cigarettes and recorded themselves walking through the building for nearly 40 minutes, the Department of Justice said.

    In that time, Ochs took and posted a photo of himself with the caption “Hello from the Capital lol.” He also recorded DeCarlo writing “Murder the media” on a Capitol door, a reference to their social media channel.

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    A former Air Force sergeant who was linked to an anti-government extremist movement and in 2020 attacked law enforcement officials amid protests over the killing of George Floyd has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the killing of a Northern California sheriff's sergeant.

    Steven Carrillo, 33, pleaded guilty in June to all nine counts, including murder, for the killing of Santa Cruz County Sheriff Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller. Also in June, a federal judge sentenced Carrillo to 41 years in prison for killing David Patrick Underwood, a federal security agent who was attacked along with a colleague while guarding a federal building in Oakland.

    Prosecutors said that on June 6, 2020, Carrillo ambushed sheriff's deputies in Santa Cruz County who were responding to a report of a van containing firearms and bomb-making materials. Gutzwiller, 38, was killed and several other law enforcement officials were wounded.

    Carrillo, of Santa Cruz, was arrested after he ambushed officials in the community of Ben Lomond.

    The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office posted a photo of Sgt. Gutzwiller's handcuffs, saying in the caption they were used Friday to transport Carrillo to state prison.

    Prosecutors said Carrillo, of Santa Cruz, had ties to the "boogaloo" movement, a concept embraced by a loose network of gun enthusiasts and militia-style extremists who connected online. Experts say the group started in alt-right culture on the internet with the belief that there is an impending U.S. civil war.

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    CBS News has learned that William Russell, a close adviser to former President Donald Trump, received a subpoena Wednesday related to a Department of Justice investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and efforts to overturn the election.

    Russell, 31, was often seen by Trump's side, serving as White House deputy director of Advance and Trip Director. He was with the former president for part of the day on Jan. 6, 2021, and moved to Florida to continue working for Trump after his presidency.

    FBI personnel visited Russell's Florida home for questioning Wednesday morning but he was out, according to a person familiar with the matter. Investigators later reached him by phone and served a subpoena via email.

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    three felony counts in her indictment carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison




    Kellye SoRelle, a self-described general counsel for the right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers, pleaded not guilty Friday to several charges relating to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

    SoRelle faces four charges, including obstruction of an official proceeding and obstructing justice by telling others to delete information from their phones.
    Prosecutors say they do not plan to add SoRelle, who took a photo with group leader Stewart Rhodes in front of the Capitol that day, to any of the larger indictments charging members of the Oath Keepers with seditious conspiracy. The Justice Department also noted that there are "numerous witnesses who talk about" SoRelle who are part of the larger Oath Keepers case, adding that there is "voluminous" discovery for SoRelle and her counsel to go through.

    SoRelle is due back in court for a status conference on November 15.

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    60-day prison sentence and 9,500.00 fine




    A doctor who gained public attention after promoting the unproven drug hydroxychloroquine as a cure for COVID-19 in a 2020 video retweeted by former President Trump was sentenced Thursday to two months in prison for her involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

    Simone Gold, the founder of anti-COVID-19 restriction group America’s Frontline Doctors, pleaded guilty in March to entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds when she stormed the Capitol last year.

    Gold will pay a $9,500 fine, the largest amount of money ordered to be paid by any of the 200 Jan. 6 rioters already sentenced, in addition to serving 60 days in prison, CNN reported.

    “It ain’t about free speech,” said District Judge Christopher Cooper in Gold’s sentencing hearing. “January 6 was about a lot of things, but it wasn’t about free speech or COVID vaccinations. … The only reason you are here is where and when and how you chose to express your views.”

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    D.J. Hilson, Muskegon County's prosecutor and a Democrat, will serve as the special prosecutor to decide whether charges should be brought against nine individuals who allegedly engaged in a "conspiracy" to gain improper access to Michigan voting machines after the 2020 presidential election.

    The Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council announced Hilson's assignment Thursday morning. He'll now have to weigh evidence collected through a monthslong investigation by the Michigan State Police and Attorney General Dana Nessel's office.

    Among those whom Nessel's office referred to a special prosecutor for potential charges on Aug. 5 were Republican attorney general candidate Matt DePerno, Nessel's general election opponent.

    "Prosecutor Hilson will review the investigation and information for possible charges. At this time, no charges have been filed against any of the possible defendants," a statement from the Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council said.

    The group's efforts involved persuading local clerks to hand over five tabulators, taking the tabulators to hotels or rental properties in Oakland County, breaking into the machines, printing "fake ballots" and performing "tests" on the equipment, according to a letter from Christina Grossi, the chief deputy attorney general, to Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.

    Potential charges include "but are not limited to" conspiracy, using a computer system to commit a crime, willfully damaging a voting machine, malicious destruction of property, fraudulent access to a computer or computer system and false pretenses, according to the attorney general's office.

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    There are just under 900 Jan. 6 rioters that have been arrested to date.

    The Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism pored over more than 38,000 names on leaked Oath Keepers membership lists.

    The DOJ might have some questions to their whereabouts on Jan. 6th





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    potential 20 years behind bars and a fine up to $250,000




    Maryland Man Who Served on Presidential Helicopter Squadron as a Marine Pleads Guilty to Jan. 6 Felony

    A military veteran who once served on the Marine One squadron has pleaded guilty to felony obstruction in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

    John Daniel Andries, 36, admitted to traveling to Washington from his home in Maryland on Jan. 6 in order to attend then-President Donald Trump‘s so-called “Stop the Steal” rally, in which Trump encouraged his supporters to march to the Capitol as Congress was certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral win. Andries admitted to entering the building through a broken window, confronting Capitol Police once inside, and refusing to leave Capitol grounds, forcing police to drag him away.

    Andries entered his guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras on Monday. During the hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Douglas Collyer noted that Andries was in the first wave of rioters to breach the building at the Senate Wing door. He entered at around 2:15 p.m., just two minutes after the initial breach, and made his way to the Capitol Crypt.

    After the crowd in the Crypt successfully pushed past police, Andries made his way to the Speaker’s Lobby, where he took a video of himself.

    “Hey y’all, think they hear us now?” Andries said on the video. “Knock knock, motherfvckers,” he also said, later adding: “I think the police have gotten the message: we ain’t backin’ down.”

    The obstruction charge carries a potential 20 years behind bars and a fine up to $250,000. The plea agreement contemplates a sentence of 15 to 21 months, but Contreras is not bound by that suggestion. Andries has also agreed to pay $2,000 in restitution toward the estimated $2.7 million in damage to the Capitol.

    Contreras, an Obama appointee, set sentencing for Jan. 10, 2023.

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    The House panel investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol is set to revive the public portion of its probe this month, eyeing at least two more hearings in the coming weeks to highlight former President Trump’s role in the deadly rampage.

    Publicly, the inquiry into the Jan. 6 attack has been overshadowed in recent weeks by the FBI’s extraordinary seizure of thousands of government documents, including those alleged to be highly sensitive, from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida last month — part of a separate Justice Department investigation into Trump’s potential mishandling of federal records.

    But behind the scenes, the Jan. 6 select committee has spent Congress’s long summer recess plugging away, interviewing a number of new witnesses while seeking the cooperation of several more, including such prominent GOP figures as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.), former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and former Vice President Mike Pence.

    The work has continued against the backdrop not only of the legal battle surrounding the FBI search, but of Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) losing her primary battle against a Trump-backed candidate. Despite Cheney’s loss, many Democrats think the focus in the headlines on Trump is helping their party ahead of the midterms.

    As the House returns to Washington this week, the panel is promising to air its new findings in at least one public hearing this month, with another perhaps to follow in October — a schedule that would put Trump and his GOP supporters on the defensive heading into November’s midterm elections.

    The exact timing of the hearings, as well as the witness list, remain works in progress, according to members of the committee. But a central focus of the investigation throughout August was the wide-ranging effort by a long list of Trump supporters — some of them on Capitol Hill — to install slates of fake electors in certain battleground states where Trump has claimed, falsely, that he prevailed over President Biden. Gingrich, the committee has found, was a part of that effort.

    “Former House Speaker Gingrich appears to have been involved in some of the planning around the counterfeit electors scheme, and efforts to substitute a fraudulent process for the actual process,” a member of the select committee said in an interview.

    Another member of the committee, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), said Gingrich’s campaign to keep Trump in the White House did not stop even after Congress voted to certify Biden’s victory in the aftermath of the failed insurrection.

    “We also have information about his efforts to get the election overturned, even after the riot on the 6th,” Lofgren told CNN earlier this month.

    Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the select committee, delivered a letter to Gingrich this month seeking his “voluntary cooperation.” The request cited Gingrich’s communications with several top Trump advisers — including Meadows, Jared Kushner and Jason Miller — about methods to reverse the election outcome and suggested Gingrich may have been in direct touch with Trump on the subject.

    Snippets of Gingrich’s emails obtained by the panel reveal he had suggested line edits for a post-election TV ad in Georgia, where Trump was defeated, promoting conspiracy theories around voter fraud. The message, Gingrich advised, should include reference to a “call to action.”

    “The goal is to arouse the country’s anger,” Gingrich wrote to Kushner and Miller, adding that viewers “will then bring pressure on legislators and governors.”

    “These advertising efforts were not designed to encourage voting for a particular candidate,” Thompson wrote to Gingrich. “Instead, these efforts attempted to cast doubt on the outcome of the election after voting had already taken place.”

    The Sept. 1 letter was a clear sign that the committee’s investigation is far from over, while raising new questions about what remaining figures could be implicated as its work continues.

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    A Walled Lake man whose daughter said had been struggling with mental issues after embracing conspiracy theories was fatally shot by police Sunday after he allegedly shot and killed his wife and injured another daughter.

    According to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office, police received a “chilling” 911 call at 4:11 a.m. Sunday from a 25-year-old woman who said her father had shot her and killed her mother, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. She was so distraught she could not give an address other than Glenwood Court, authorities said.

    Officers were moving toward the house when Igor Lanis, 53, came out the front door with a shotgun and started shooting at officers, Bouchard said.

    The officers returned fire, killing Lanis, Bouchard said. No officers were injured.

    When they went into the house, they found Lanis’ daughter trying to crawl out of the house, Bouchard said. She had been shot with a shotgun in the back and legs.

    Her 56-year-old mother was dead inside the home, Bouchard said. She had been shot at least four times with a handgun.

    The family dog also was shot multiple times and killed.

    Rebecca Lanis blamed her father's mental health on his recent online interest in extremism and conspiracy theories.

    "I think that he was always prone to (mental issues), but it really brought him down when he was reading all those weird things on the internet," Lanis said.

    Rebecca Lanis said after President Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, her father started falling deeper into "crazy ideas" online, including QAnon conspiracy theories about Trump and vaccines.

    "Nobody could talk him out of them," she said.

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    A Walled Lake man whose daughter said had been struggling with mental issues after embracing conspiracy theories
    Only another 70 million to go.

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    Only another 70 million to go.
    Luckily these halfwits have plenty of guns and ammo.

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    MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said FBI agents seized his cellphone Tuesday after questioning him at a Hardee's fast-food restaurant in Mankato, Minnesota, about a Colorado county clerk who's accused of tampering with voting equipment.

    The latest: The FBI field office in Denver confirmed to several news outlets late Tuesday that the agency had served Trump ally Lindell with a search warrant.

    Why it matters: While it's not immediately clear if Lindell is a target of the federal investigation into indicted Mesa County clerk Tina Peters, it's a signal that the probe has reached a leading figure in the national movement seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, per the New York Times.


    • Lindell was hit with defamation lawsuits from Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems over baseless election claims.


    Details: Lindell posted on social media copies of what he said was a subpoena that the FBI served along with a warrant to seize his phone.


    • He shared with the Washington Times a letter he said accompanied the warrant stating an "official criminal investigation of a suspected felony is being conducted by an agency of the United States and a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Colorado."


    What else he's saying: He claimed on his podcast "The Lindell Report" that agents asked him about his relationship with Peters, who last week pleaded not guilty to criminal charges of election tampering and official misconduct related to a security breach of her office's voting system.


    • Lindell said agents also asked him "how long have you known Doug Frank." Frank an Ohio math teacher, whose theories about the 2020 presidential election have been debunked several times, per the Cincinnati Enquirer.


    Worth noting: Peters appeared on stage at an August 2021 "Cyber Symposium" in South Dakota that Lindell organized, per the NYT, which reported in June that he had donated large sums to Peters' legal defense fund.

    What they're saying: "Without commenting on this specific matter, I can confirm that the FBI was at that location executing a search warrant authorized by a federal judge," said FBI spokesperson Vikki Migoya in a statement to AP.

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    • Peter Strzok - At this point FBI may have more cell phones than a Verizon store


    Rudy Giuliani
    Victoria Toensing
    Michael McDonald
    Scott Perry
    John Eastman
    Jeff Clark
    Boris Epshteyn
    Mike Roman
    Mike Lindell

    The FBI can’t seize any of them without probable cause they contain evidence of a crime. https://twitter.com/petestrzok/statu...01730992910341

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    He faces decades in prison.




    A man who was seen crushing a Metropolitan Police Department officer in a door frame during the January 6 Capitol riot has been convicted of nine offenses, seven of them felonies, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Patrick McCaughey III, 25, of Ridgefield, Connecticut, and two others were convicted on multiple charges in a bench trial by U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, an appointee of former President Trump.

    Tristan Chandler Stevens, 26, of Pensacola, Florida, and David Mehaffie, 63, of Kettering, Ohio, were found guilty of five felony charges and two felony charges, respectively.

    On Jan. 6, 2021, "the three defendants attempted to break into the building by directing other rioters, participating in heave-hos against the police line, using riot shields stolen from the Capitol Police, and assaulting three specific officers," the Justice Department said. "Mehaffie hung from an archway and shouted direction from above, and McCaughey and Stevens were key players in the melee below. McCaughey grabbed a riot shield and used it as a weapon. Even after officers finally cleared the tunnel area, the three defendants illegally remained on Capitol grounds."

    All three men were convicted of assault charges, however, McFadden only agreed to add a dangerous weapon enhancement, which could increase the eventual prison sentence, to McCaughey's convictions, according to CBS affiliate WUSA-TV. McFadden ruled that the riot shields the three men stole were not inherently dangerous weapons, but that it become one the way McCaughey used it, WUSA-TV reports.

    McCaughey was captured on video using a riot shield to pin MPD officer Daniel Hodges in a doorway during the riot. Hodges could be seen screaming out in pain as he was being crushed in the doorway as rioters attempted to enter the Capitol building. In an interview with CBS News, Hodges said that in videos, you can see McCaughey grabbing his gas mask, beating his head against the door, and ripping it away.

    "I definitely considered that that might be it," Hodges said. "I might not be able to make it out of there."

    Hodges, along with several other law enforcement officers, also testified before the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot in 2021. He repeatedly called the rioters "terrorists" throughout his opening statement.

    He said that as his head was being "bashed" by a rioter, he feared that "at best" he might collapse and become a liability to his colleagues. "At worst," he added, "be dragged down into the crowd and lynched."

    He said, "I did the only thing I could do and screamed for help."

    The seven felonies McCaughey was convicted of are: three counts of aiding or abetting or assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers, including one involving a dangerous weapon; one count of obstruction of an official proceeding; one count of interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder; one count of disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, and one count of engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon.

    He faces decades in prison.

    Stevens and Mehaffie were each acquitted of obstruction charges.

    McCaughey, who was 23 at the time, was arrested Jan. 19, 2021 in South Salem, New York, according to The Associated Press.

    McCaughey, who has both U.S. and German citizenship, was unemployed and lived with his mother in Ridgefield, an affluent town along the New York border, public defender Jason Ser said at the time. He was arrested at his father's second home, where he was quarantining, the AP reported.

    McCaughey will be sentenced on Jan. 26, 2023, according to the Justice Department.

    Below is a list of charges McCaughey was found guilty of:


    • Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers and Aiding and Abetting
    • 2 Counts of Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon
    • Obstruction of an Official Proceeding and Aiding and Abetting
    • Civil Disorder
    • Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon
    • Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon
    • Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building
    • Act of Physical Violence in the Capitol Grounds or Buildings


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    Trump said Thursday the nation would face “problems ... the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen” if he is indicted over his handling of classified documents after leaving office, an apparent suggestion that such a move by the Justice Department could spark violence from Trump’s supporters.

    Trump warns of 'problems' like 'we've never seen' if he's indicted - POLITICO

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    The Georgia prosecutor investigating attempts by former President Trump and his allies to challenge President Biden’s victory in the state in 2020 said she expects prison sentences for those convicted of crimes related to the investigation.

    Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) told The Washington Post this week that her team has heard credible allegations that serious crimes were committed and that some people might serve time in prison.

    At least 17 people have been notified that they are the targets of a criminal investigation, and Willis said additional targets will soon be added, the Post reported.

    “The allegations are very serious. If indicted and convicted, people are facing prison sentences,” she said.

    Willis did not name the targets and has not said if she is willing to charge Trump for his efforts to overturn the results. But she said Trump could be called as a witness before the special grand jury that convened this spring.

    She said she imagines a decision will be made on whether to seek testimony from Trump in late fall.

    Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer confirmed last month that he is a target of the investigation and testified before the grand jury days later. The 16 fake Georgia electors who created documents that declared Trump the winner of the state are the others reportedly under investigation.

    The electors allegedly signed a certificate that declared themselves the state’s electors even though a slate of Democratic electors was certified following Biden’s win.

    Trump said in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday that he was not involved in the plan to overturn Georgia’s election results but said the idea was “very common.”

    Willis told the Post that she expects the fact-finding investigation to conclude by the end of the year. She said it will stop public activities like calling witnesses during the month leading up to the November midterm elections.

    She said the grand jury has interviewed about 65 percent of the dozens of witnesses that prosecutors want to testify.

    Willis began her investigation shortly after a call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) became public, revealing that Trump asked Raffensperger to “find” the votes necessary for him to win the state.

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    Save America itself is facing scrutiny from the Justice Department. Last week, numerous grand jury subpoenas asked people in Trump world about the PAC’s fundraising and spending activities. The language in those subpoenas was broad, according to reports, and also asked witnesses for information about a host of people linked to Trump’s efforts to reverse the outcome of the 2020 presidential contest.

    Trump set up Save America on Nov. 9, 2020 — two days after Election Day — and has used it as a key post-presidential fundraising vehicle.

    Since its launch, Save America PAC has brought in more than $135 million. And its work has become a focus of the Jan. 6 select committee. In the panel’s second public hearing, as NPR detailed, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) noted that Trump urged donors to support an “Official Election Defense Fund.” She said the committee learned that the fund did not exist, and that instead much of the money Trump raised in the wake of the election went to Save America.

    Two organizations helmed by former top Trump White House aides have received checks for $1 million from Save America, according to the Jan. 6 committee. Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows heads one of the groups, and former White House aide Brooke Rollins is the president and CEO of the other. The PAC also paid $5 million to the company that ran Trump’s rally on the morning of Jan. 6, according to the committee].

    “Throughout the committee’s investigation, we found evidence that the Trump campaign and its surrogates misled donors as to where their funds would go and what they would be used for,” Lofgren said at the committee’s second hearing. “So not only was there the Big Lie, there was the Big Rip-off.”

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    Maybe a 6 ½ year sentence




    In May, a federal jury convicted Timothy Hale-Cusanelli on a felony count of obstructing an official proceeding and four misdemeanors: entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

    A former Army reservist and a security contractor, Hale-Cusanelli held a “secret” clearance, and his access to classified information alarmed many after his ideology became apparent. Court papers showed him with a Hitler mustache and hairdo, aping the dictator’s overwrought expressions in faux-stern selfies with his hand over his heart. It was more than World War II-era cosplay. People who knew Hale-Cusanelli told federal investigators that the former reservist expressed support for killing Jews and “babies born with any deformities or disabilities,” and said that “Hitler should have finished the job.”

    They have asked U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, to impose a 78-month sentence, which is roughly midway from where the government calculated Hale-Cusanelli’s sentencing guidelines. His sentencing has been scheduled for Sept. 22 at 10 a.m.

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    The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is eyeing a laundry list of tasks as it seeks to pull together a legislative package to prevent future insurrections.

    The committee for months has touted the legislative purpose to its investigation — a key detail as various subpoena recipients have sought to skirt compliance with the panel.

    But with the panel staring down a tight end-of-the-year deadline to complete its work, time is dwindling to introduce a package that could range from electoral reforms to enhanced criminal penalties.

    “We have some minor factual loose ends to wrap up, but then really what we need to do is to make our sweeping legislative recommendations about what needs to be done to fortify America against coups and insurrections and political violence in the future,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.).

    “We want to strengthen and fortify the electoral system and the right to vote. We want to do what we can to secure the situation of election workers and keep them safe from violence. We want to solidify the states in their determination that private armed militias not operate in the name of the state. You know, we don’t have any kind of federal law or policy about private armed militias,” Raskin added, saying the last point was a personal interest of his.

    Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) alluded to the wide range of legislative options as far back as October when the House was considering a contempt of Congress vote against onetime Trump strategist Stephen Bannon.

    She cited Trump’s dereliction of duty in watching the riot unfold while doing little if anything to stop it, saying, “We are evaluating whether our criminal laws should be enhanced to apply more consequences to this type of behavior.”

    She also pointed to Trump’s call to pressure Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” more votes, saying the panel was contemplating enhanced penalties for such actions in general.

    Cheney also floated that legislation could address Trump’s alleged pressure campaign at the Department of Justice.

    Trump’s attempt to reverse President Biden’s victory has also prompted the most publicly discussed efforts to reform the Electoral Count Act.

    Senate lawmakers introduced legislation that would reform the Electoral Count Act in July. A companion bill was introduced in the House this week by two lawmakers who do not serve on the Jan. 6 committee.

    The bill seeks to clarify the role the vice president plays in certifying the results, specifically stating that it is purely ceremonial. The legislation also would raise the bar to successfully challenge a state’s Electoral College result, from just one House member and one senator from a state to 20 percent of a state’s congressional delegation.

    It also directly targets Trump’s fake elector scheme by largely leaving each state’s governor in charge of submitting electoral certificates to end the risk of any competing electors.

    Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) has her own Electoral Reform Act bill in the works — one she said would go beyond the measures outlined in the Senate legislation.

    While she says work on it is being “buttoned up,” it’s not clear when it will drop — though it’s scheduled to go to the House floor next week.

    Much more………

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    Young faces eight years in prison for assaulting a cop




    A man who pleaded guilty earlier this year to assaulting a D.C. police officer during the January 6th Capitol riots is pleading for leniency by telling a judge that he is "ashamed" of his actions that day.

    In a new court filing flagged by NBC News' Ryan Reilly, Capitol rioter Kyle Young says he deeply regrets not only attending the riot, but bringing his teenage son with him.

    Young, who pleaded guilty to grabbing former D.C. cop Michael Fanone as another rioter repeatedly assaulted him with Fanone's own stun gun, told the court that he "was a nervous wreck and highly ashamed of myself" after he came home from the riot and learned that "over 180 officers had been severely injured and hospitalized" during the event.

    "I broke down crying," he wrote. "I just didn't know what to do. A couple weeks later I saw my face on the FBI's most wanted list. I immediately turned myself in to the U.S. Federal Marshals."

    Young emphasized that he wasn't planning on running from law enforcement and vowed to "never do anything like that again."

    Young faces a maximum of eight years in prison for assaulting Fanone, whom prosecutors allege handed the former D.C. officer's stun gun to assailant Danny Rodriguez.

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    Little more

    9 months in prison and pay $2,000 of restitution




    Richard Michetti, a Pennsylvania man who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, was sentenced to nine months in federal prison on Tuesday, per the Department of Justice.

    Driving the news: Michetti, who was arrested in February, was turned over to the FBI by a former girlfriend after he called her a "moron" for not believing that the 2020 election was stolen, per a DOJ complaint.


    • "If you can't see the election was stolen you're a moron," he wrote in a text message.
    • Michetti pleaded guilty in May to one felony count of "aiding and abetting obstruction of an official proceeding," per the DOJ.
    • Michetti on Tuesday was also sentenced to 24 months of supervised release and was ordered to pay $2,000 of restitution.


    State of play: Prosecutors sought 18 months in federal prison for Michetti, who they say "was an active participant" in the Jan. 6 riot.


    • "Michetti actively participated in the January 6 attack on the Capitol by, among other actions, entering and remaining in the Capitol for 45 minutes and taunting and yelling obscenities at law enforcement, referring to them as 'f---ing animals,'" per the DOJ.
    • Michetti faced a statutory maximum of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, per the DOJ.


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    Tiny bit more

    Slap


    • Judge denies Oath Keepers leader’s request for special master ahead of seditious conspiracy trial


    A federal judge on Tuesday denied Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes’s requests to appoint a special master in his Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case and delay the trial.

    U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta’s brief order came hours after Rhodes’s attorney had requested the special master appointment to assist in discovery, saying it spanned more than 10 terabytes of data. The Justice Department objected to the motion.

    The use of a special master, a court-appointed official who carries out an action on its behalf, has come into the spotlight after former President Trump requested one to examine materials seized by the FBI at his Mar-a-Lago residence in August. The judge in that case granted the request.

    “One of the most cost-effective methods for managing and dispensing discovery of such a massive volume is to engage a special master to help manage discovery,” Rhodes’s attorney wrote in the filing. “Special masters can promote efficiency in discovery, the phase of litigation that is most likely to break down and cause delays to case resolution.”

    The judge said he will outline his reasoning for denying the request during a pretrial conference scheduled for Wednesday.

    Rhodes is set to go on trial on Sept. 26 alongside other members of the far-right group for seditious conspiracy and other charges related to their involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

    Rhodes has repeatedly asked the judge to delay his trial, arguing he has had less time to prepare than the other defendants and he has been sent to four different jails that each had obstacles hindering his preparation.

    The judge on Tuesday denied Rhodes’s attorney’s latest delay request, which asked for Rhodes to have a standalone trial, or alternatively to join another group slated to be tried beginning Nov. 10. The Justice Department objected to the motion.

    “Neither Rhodes nor any of his attorneys are prepared for trial, and massive discovery drops from the government continue each week,” Rhodes’s attorney, Edward Tapley, wrote in the request.

    Tapley recently began representing Rhodes after the Oath Keepers leader said he had a breakdown in communication with his previous attorneys.

    The judge last week denied a previous delay request, which cited the change as reason Rhodes could not properly defend himself in the trial slated for later this month.

    Rhodes’s new court filings also indicate he planned to involve Oath Keepers attorney Kellye SoRelle in Rhodes’s defense, calling SoRelle a “necessary witness.” SoRelle was arrested earlier this month in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

    “SoRelle, in fact, was one of the closest people to Rhodes during Rhodes’ planning and participation in events on Jan. 6, and SoRelle would have been a key witness through whom Rhodes would have informed the jury of Rhodes’ demeanor, state of mind and intentions,” Rhodes’s attorney told the judge.

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    Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff under former President Donald Trump, has complied with a Justice Department subpoena and turned over records as part of a federal investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, a person familiar the matter said Thursday.

    The records produced by Meadows are the same ones he earlier provided to a House committee conducting a similar investigation, according to the person, who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing Justice Department probe.

    The subpoena to Meadows, first reported by CNN, makes clear that Justice Department officials are seeking information from the most senior of Trump’s White House advisers as they examine wide-ranging efforts to overturn the results of the election won by Democrat Joe Biden.

    The department, whose work at times has mirrored or overlapped with that of the committee, this month served a broad wave of grand jury subpoenas and search warrants to Trump allies.

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    Julian Khater, 33, faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and potential financial penalties on each of the two counts of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon



    A Somerset, New Jersey, man pleaded guilty to two charges of assaulting police officers with pepper spray during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.

    Why it matters: One of the law enforcement officials assaulted was U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) officer Brian Sicknick, who suffered two strokes and died of natural causes the day after the Capitol attack.


    • The Justice Department said Julian Khater, 33, faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and potential financial penalties on each of the two counts of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon.


    The big picture: George Tanios, Khater's co-defendant in the case, pleaded guilty in July to two misdemeanor charges after striking a deal with federal prosecutors.


    • In his plea deal, Tanios, of Morgantown, West Virginia, said he brought two cans of chemical spray to the Capitol complex on Jan. 6 and gave one to Khater.
    • Video footage from the scene of the insurrection showed the pair "working together to assault law enforcement officers with an unknown chemical substance by spraying officers directly in the face and eyes," according to an FBI affidavit.
    • Khater and Tanios were arrested in March 2021.


    What's next: Tanios is set to be sentenced on Dec. 6, and Khater is set to be sentenced on Dec. 13

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    • Jan. 6 rioter who wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt gets jail term


    A Virginia man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while wearing an antisemitic “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt over a Nazi-themed shirt was sentenced on Thursday to 75 days of imprisonment.

    Robert Keith Packer, 57, declined to address U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols before he sentenced him during a hearing held by video conference. The judge noted the “incredibly offensive” message on Packer’s sweatshirt before imposing the sentence.

    “It seems to me that he wore that sweatshirt for a reason. We don’t know what the reason was because Mr. Packer hasn’t told us,” Nichols said.

    Photographs of Packer wearing the sweatshirt went viral after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. When FBI agents asked him why he wore it, he “fatuously” replied, “Because I was cold,” a federal prosecutor said in a court filing.

    Packer’s sweatshirt depicted an image of a human skull above the words “Camp Auschwitz.” The word “Staff” was on the back. It also bore the phrase “Work Brings Freedom,” a rough translation of the German words above the entrance gate to Auschwitz, the concentration camp in occupied Poland where Nazis killed more than 1 million men, women and children.

    Assistant U.S. Attorney Mona Furst said she learned on Wednesday that Packer also wore an “SS” T-shirt — a reference to the Nazi Party paramilitary organization founded by Adolf Hitler — under his sweatshirt on Jan. 6. Packer “attacked the very government that gave him the freedom to express those beliefs, no matter how abhorrent or evil they may be” when he joined the mob supporting then-President Donald Trump, the prosecutor said

    Packer “wanted to support the subversion of our republic and keep a dictatorial ruler in place by force and violence,” Furst told the judge.

    Defense attorney Stephen Brennwald acknowledged that Packer’s attire was “seriously offensive” but argued that it shouldn’t be a sentencing factor because he has a free speech right to wear it.

    “It’s just awful that he wore that shirt that day. I just don’t think it’s appropriate to give him extra time because of that because he’s allowed to wear it,” he said.

    Prosecutors had recommended a sentence of 75 days of incarceration followed by 36 months of probation. Brennwald sought a probationary sentence with no jail time.

    FBI agents arrested Packer a week after the riot. He has remained free while awaiting sentencing.

    Packer is a self-employed pipe fitter. Prosecutors say he has a lengthy criminal record, with approximately 21 convictions, mostly for drunken driving and other motor vehicle violations.

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    Jeffrey Clark, a former Trump Department of Justice official, told the D.C. Bar that the DOJ is investigating him for felony violations involving false statements, conspiracy and obstruction.

    Driving the news: Clark said in a filing made public Wednesday that federal investigators seized his phone and other electronic devices while executing a search warrant on his home in June.


    • CNN first reported on the filing.


    The search had been known at the time, but which federal agency conducted it and what the investigators may have been looking for was not.


    • Clark was an assistant attorney general who was supportive of Trump's efforts to overturn the election, and the former president sought to install Clark as acting attorney general after former Attorney General Bill Barr resigned.
    • The D.C. Bar's Office of Disciplinary Counsel filed a petition in June to launch disciplinary proceedings against Clark for engaging in dishonesty and interfering with the administration of justice.


    What they're saying: Lawyers representing Clark wrote in the filing that on June 20, "approximately a dozen armed agents of the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General executed a criminal search warrant at [Mr. Clark’s] home at around 7 a.m. and seized his electronic devices."


    • Clark asked the bar to defer his disciplinary proceedings because of the ongoing Justice Department investigation, the House select committee's probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and the Fulton County, Georgia, special grand jury investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
    • The D.C. Bar's Office of Disciplinary Counsel recommended the disciplinary proceedings deferral be denied.
    • Axios asked the Justice Department to comment on Clark's filing, and it did not immediately respond.


    The big picture: Separately, Clark repeatedly refused to cooperate with the Jan. 6 committee's investigative subpoenas, and the committee recommended holding him in contempt of Congress.


    • He was central to the committee's fifth public hearing, which looked at Trump's efforts to pressure the Justice Department.
    • Clark is also of interest to the Fulton County investigation over an unsent letter addressed to Georgia officials that falsely claimed the Justice Department had “identified significant concerns” that would affect the state’s 2020 election results.


    https://s3.documentcloud.org/documen...n_redacted.pdf

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    Ex-Army Reservist Who Posed Like Hitler and Spewed Antisemitic Vitriol Loses Bid to Topple His Jan. 6-Related Convictions

    A former Army Reservist with a history of spouting neo-Nazi rhetoric and imagery cannot get a new trial or an acquittal on charges related to his participation in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a federal judge ruled on Monday.

    In May, a federal jury convicted Timothy Hale-Cusanelli on a felony count of obstructing an official proceeding and four misdemeanors related to his breaching of the Capitol and his actions inside the building. Prosecutors want him put away behind bars for six and a half years.

    U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Donald Trump appointee, saw no reason to disturb any of those convictions.

    “The Court finds that Hale-Cusanelli has given no reason for the Court to rethink its pretrial orders nor that his trial was deficient,” his order states. “The Court thus denies his motion.”

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    Another update




    A federal judge ruled Monday that an audio recording of an Oath Keeper narrating portions of her time at the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6 can be admitted at trial, although he restricted the government from presenting a jury with “caustic” statements made by other members of the chat.

    Ohio Oath Keeper Jessica Watkins and other members of the militia group set to begin trial next week sought to keep the recording of a Zello chat out of trial, arguing last month it was “hearsay within hearsay.” The chat was recorded in real-time on Jan. 6 and reviewed by On the Media reporter Micah Loewinger and MilitiaWatch founder Hampton Stall for WNYC Studios.

    Zello is an application that allows users to communicate through their phones like walkie-talkies, and on Jan. 6, prosecutors say Watkins joined a Zello channel called “Stop the Steal J6.” Throughout the afternoon, they say, she used it to provide “boots on the ground” updates and to respond to information being provided by other users who appeared to have been watching the Capitol riot unfold on television.

    Prosecutors say Watkins began using the application at 1:49 p.m. on Jan. 6, when she responded to the channel’s creator, identified as “1%Watchdog,” who had just told the chat, “It looks like Pence is doing his traitorous bulls***, and the election stealing is in progress – it looks to me, at this point, that that’s a felony high-crime and treason in prison inside the National Capitol building.”

    According to a transcript of the chat, Watkins, using the name “OhioRegularsActual – Oathkeeper,” responded, “Right, brother. We’re boots on the ground here. We’re moving on the Capitol now.”

    A minute later, according to the transcript, Watkins said, “We have a good group. We’ve got about 30, 40 of us. We’re sticking together and sticking to the plan.”

    Shortly thereafter, 1%Watchdog informed the chat that "the tip of the spear has entered the Capitol building."

    U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta ruled Monday that statements made by both Watkins and others in roughly the first 10 minutes of the chat, including 1%Watchdog, were admissible because they provided a present sense impression of her mindset at the time and gave context to her statements. That includes multiple statements from Watkins seeming to describe her intent on Jan. 6, including, “I’m probably going to go silent when I get there because I’m gonna be a little busy.”

    At 1:58 p.m., 1% Watchdog said in the chat, “Police can’t stop you. This is a constitutional enforcement action, direct action. There is no legitimate authority in the federal government. The Congress has failed, the executive branch has failed – other than Trump – and the Judicial Branch has failed, Supreme Court. This is the civilian exercise of civilian power to alter and abolish this f***ing tyrannical, treasonous government piece of s*** and drain this f***ing swamp.”

    According to the transcript, Watkins immediately responded, “Trump’s been trying to drain the swamp with a straw. We just brought a shop vac.”

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    • January 6th Committee - The Select Committee has obtained a recording of communications over a walkie-talkie app among Oath Keepers who were inside the Capitol and others who were sharing intelligence from elsewhere.


    Listen to how they reacted to President Trump’s 2:38 tweet in real-time. https://twitter.com/January6thCmte/s...19072319709184

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    A Republican Party official in Georgia told a computer forensics team to copy components of the voting system at a rural elections office two months after the 2020 election and spent nearly all day there, contradicting her sworn deposition testimony about her role in the alleged breach of the equipment, a new court filing says.

    The filing late Monday is part of a broader lawsuit challenging the security of the state’s voting machines that has been drawn into a separate investigation of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his loss in Georgia. The apparent breach happened on Jan. 7, 2021, the day after a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters seeking to stop the certification of the election.

    Interior security camera video from the Coffee County elections office shows Cathy Latham, the county Republican Party chair at the time, welcomed the computer forensics team when it arrived, introduced the team to local election officials and spent nearly all day there. She also instructed the team what to copy, which turned out to be “virtually every component of the voting system,” the filing says. The video directly refutes Latham’s testimony in a sworn deposition and her representations in filings with the court, the document states.

    The filing comes in response to Latham’s attorneys’ attempt to quash subpoenas for her personal electronic devices, including any cellphones, computers and storage devices.

    Latham said in a deposition last month that she moved to Texas over the summer. In January 2021, she was chair of the Coffee County Republican Party and was the state party caucus chair for more than 125 of Georgia’s smaller counties. Latham also was one of 16 Georgia Republicans who signed a certificate in December 2020 falsely stating that Trump had won the state and declaring that they were the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors.

    Trump in fact lost Georgia by nearly 12,000 votes to Democrat Joe Biden. The investigation into Trump’s efforts to change the results includes a phone call he made to the Georgia secretary of state, a fellow Republican, suggesting he could “find” just enough votes to make Trump the winner.

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    Five people who federal investigators say are associated with the far-right group America First have been arrested in connection with last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol.

    In addition to numerous criminal charges, they are accused of entering House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s conference room, according to a court filing.

    The Justice Department said in the filing that the leadership of America First “has espoused a belief that they are defending against the demographic and cultural changes in America.”

    Members of the group are commonly referred to as “Groypers.”

    One of the defendants, Joseph Brody, 23, of Springfield, Virginia, faces felony charges of assaulting, resisting or impeding law enforcement officers, causing bodily injury, interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding.

    In the complaint affidavit filed last week, FBI investigators said Brody and the four other defendants entered the Capitol together on Jan. 6, 2021, and that camera video showed the group moving throughout the building and "enabling the disruption of U.S. Congressional proceedings along with other rioters, for over 30 minutes."

    Brody is accused of entering Pelosi’s office with Thomas Carey, 21, of Pittsburgh; Gabriel Chase, 22, of Gainesville, Florida; Jon Lizak, 21, of Cold Spring Harbor, New York; and Paul Ewald Lovley, 23, of Halethorpe, Maryland. Brody's fellow defendants face misdemeanor charges.

    Investigators also said Brody entered the Senate floor Senate and took photos or video of senators' desks. Brody is accused of helping another rioter use a metal barricade against a Capitol Police officer, who was knocked back as he tried to secure the door.

    According to the filing, the group also watched the destruction of media equipment, which had been surrounded by metal barricades, with Brody and Chase taking part in the destruction.

    Brody, known to online sleuths as #suitguy, can be seen wearing a charcoal suit and a striped tie with a U.S.-flag-styled neck gaiter in Jan. 6 screenshots and open-source media cited in the affidavit.

    Virginia Man Arrested on Felony and Misdemeanor Charges for Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach | USAO-DC | Department of Justice

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    The Jan. 6 committee is planning to hold its Sept. 28 hearing at 1pm ET — and it could be the panel's final public hearing, Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said Tuesday.

    Why it matters: The committee is entering the final stages of its more than yearlong investigation into the Capitol riot and surrounding events, and is preparing to release a comprehensive report before the end of the year.

    Driving the news: Thompson told reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday that the panel has "substantial footage of what occurred ... [and] significant witness testimony that we haven't used in other hearings."


    • "This is an opportunity to use some of that material," he added.
    • Thompson did not disclose the theme of the hearing and said the decision on whether to have live witness testimony, as was featured in the committee's other hearings this summer, will be made "shortly."
    • Thompson added that he will chair the hearing but, unlike past hearings, "every member of the committee will have a role."


    What we're watching: Thompson signaled this will be the panel's last hearing but didn't entirely close the door on future ones if the need arises.


    • "I can say that, unless something else develops, this hearing, at this point, is the final hearing," Thompson told reporters, "but it's not [set] in stone, because things happen."


    What's next: Thompson noted that House rules require committees to publicly announce the date, location and subject of a hearing seven days in advance, meaning the panel could make a formal announcement on Wednesday.

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    Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has agreed to interview with the Jan. 6 Committee, her lawyer told The Hill on Wednesday night.

    “As she has said from the outset, Mrs. Thomas is eager to answer the Committee’s questions to clear up any misconceptions about her work relating to the 2020 election,” Thomas’ lawyer Mark Paoletta said in a statement, reported first by CNN. “She looks forward to that opportunity.”

    The committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol asked Thomas to speak with the panel in June.

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    Pennsylvania QAnon Follower Quoted Expressing ‘Need to Kill’ Joe Biden Pleads Guilty to Jan. 6-Related Felony

    A Pittsburgh-area man who had allegedly expressed a need to kill Joe Biden and had told acquaintances that he would “storm the fukin capital [sic]” on Jan. 6 if then-President Donald Trump told him to do so has admitted to a felony charge in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

    Kenneth Grayson, 53, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to civil disorder, a felony. The charge carries a maximum five-year prison sentence and up to three years of supervised release. He appeared Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan.

    As Law&Crime previously reported, an FBI agent who had reviewed Grayson’s cell phone data had testified that the defendant had expressed a “need to kill” Biden, who had beat Trump in the 2020 presidential election. He was pictured wearing a black Pittsburgh Pirates baseball cap and a black hooded sweatshirt with the letter “Q” in yellow over his right lapel — a sign that authorities traced to his belief in the QAnon conspiracy theory.

    At the hearing, Grayson acknowledged that he had rented a car to drive himself and others to Washington and attended Trump’s so-called “Stop the Steal” rally at the Ellipse. He then walked to the Capitol with scores of other Trump supporters, at which time he saw law enforcement officers trying to stop people from entering the building.

    Starting at around 2:22 p.m. — just moments after the initial breach of the building — Grayson started live-streaming video to Facebook from inside the Capitol, court documents say. He acknowledged Tuesday that he streamed video from inside the Capitol Crypt and Rotunda, and that he later joined a group of rioters pushing against a row of law enforcement officers. Although Grayson had briefly stepped away from that group of rioters, he admitted to joining them again after another rioter yelled at the crowd to push against the officers.

    According to the affidavit in support of Grayson’s arrest, he had traveled to Washington in November and December of 2020. Prosecutors say his own text messages from that time indicate that he engaged in violence.

    “We were smashing bro,” Grayson wrote on Nov. 16, 2020, according to the affidavit. “[W]ent to the van I rented and geared up..had to leave at 7pm though, it wasn’t really bad yet..I was beating commies with a flag pole I picked up and looked like it wasn’t going to be that bad Proud Boys were everywhere..cops weren’t doing a fukin thing watching old people get fucked with it was sickening[.]”

    “I left one unconscious so I did my little part and got the fuck out before I got arrested[,]” he also wrote, according to prosecutors.

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    Georgia prosecutors' investigation into former President Donald Trump and his allies' efforts to interfere with the outcome of the 2020 election is expected to expand its list of targets soon, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told the Washington Post in an interview published Thursday.

    Driving the news: At least 17 people have been notified so far of being targets in the investigation, including Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and a slate of 16 potential Republican electors.


    • Willis did not elaborate on any of the potential new names during the interview, which was conducted Tuesday.
    • She did note that Trump could be called to testify before the special grand jury that was launched in May but did not specify whether she would be willing to charge Trump.
    • Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has recently resisted appearing before the special grand jury for testimony, claiming that because he was acting in his capacity as a legislator he should be shielded from the probe.


    What they're saying: “A decision is going to have to be made,” Willis said regarding the call to have Trump testify before the special grand jury, adding that, "I imagine it’s going to be made late this fall.”


    • “The allegations are very serious. If indicted and convicted, people are facing prison sentences, she said of the investigation's targets.
    • Willis, who revealed in July her intention to pause the investigation around the start of early voting and through the election in order to avoid the appearance of partiality, told the Post the decision was made so that people wouldn't "claim that this was some political stunt that we were doing to impact the election."
    • “I’m pleased with where it is. I think we’re moving along at a really good speed,” she said, noting that the special grand jury has interviewed roughly 65% of the witnesses whose testimony has been sought.
    • “We are going to be done calling witnesses by the end of this year. Period.”


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    A federal judge on Thursday denied MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s request for a temporary restraining order that would prevent the FBI from accessing his seized cell phone until a hearing occurs in the executive’s case against the seizure.

    U.S. District Court Judge Eric Tostrud, a Trump appointee, wrote in his decision, shared by Politico, that it would be “far wiser” for the court to hear from the government and Lindell’s team on “relevant factual and legal questions” before making a decision regarding his requests for the order and the return of his phone, noting that a temporary restraining order is an “extraordinary remedy” and that multiple factors must be considered in requests like Lindell’s for the return of seized property.

    He also wrote that Lindell’s team did not “cite any authority that might explain why the cellphone’s return is appropriate” under the procedural rule they used as the basis for their request.

    The rule, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41(g), authorizes a person to file a motion for the return of seized property.

    “The court must receive evidence on any factual issue necessary to decide the motion,” reads the rule.

    Tostrud said the plaintiffs failed to provide reasons why the phone should be returned based on Rule 41(g).

    “Whether Rule 41(g) requires the cellphone’s return is not obvious, and that’s understating things,” he wrote.

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    A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, an avowed Nazi sympathizer and white supremacist who served in the U.S. Army reserves, to four years in prison for storming the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, according to the Department of Justice.

    Why it matters: Hale-Cusanelli's case received attention from the military because of his reservist status at the time and his employment as a security contractor at Naval Weapons Station Earle in New Jersey, where he had a security clearance and access to a variety of munitions.

    At his sentencing trial on Thursday, the court also found that Hale-Cusanelli, 32, from Colts Neck, New Jersey, had obstructed justice during the trial when he made certain statements under oath, which enhanced his sentence.


    • He was found guilty of five criminal charges in a federal trial in May, including a felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding.
    • Hale-Cusanelli claimed he did not know Congress convened at the U.S. Capitol while on the stand in the trial, according to NBC News.
    • He will be under three years of supervised release after the prison sentence and must also pay $2,000 in restitution, the judge ruled.


    The big picture: In a statement of facts provided by an agent for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) in January 2021, the agent said Hale-Cusanelli described himself as "a white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer" during a meeting six days after the riot.


    • Federal prosecutors said in a filing in March 2021 that a NCIS investigation into Hale-Cusanelli revealed that 34 of his interviewed colleagues agreed that he held “extremist or radical views pertaining to the Jewish people, minorities, and women.”
    • One of the colleagues said he had at one point "shaved his facial hair into a 'Hitler mustache,'" and prosecutors extracted photos of the alleged mustache from his phone.


    By the numbers: The DOJ said Thursday more than 870 people have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the Capitol, and over 265 have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.

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    A key figure in the investigation into possible criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 election did not appear as scheduled to testify before the Fulton County special purpose grand jury.

    Sidney Powell, former attorney of former President Donald Trump, was scheduled to testify Thursday morning, but sources tell Channel 2 Action News that there may have been some confusion over the subpoena, and she apparently did not testify.

    It is unclear if there will be legal repercussions from her failure to appear.

    According to court records, the grand jury wants to ask Powell about her involvement in an incident that happened in South Georgia in January 2021.
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    • Jan. 6 rioter who called his ex a "moron" sentenced to 9 months in prison


    Richard Michetti, a Pennsylvania man who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, was sentenced to nine months in federal prison on Tuesday, per the Department of Justice.

    Driving the news: Michetti, who was arrested in February, was turned over to the FBI by a former girlfriend after he called her a "moron" for not believing that the 2020 election was stolen, per a DOJ complaint.


    • "If you can't see the election was stolen you're a moron," he wrote in a text message.
    • Michetti pleaded guilty in May to one felony count of "aiding and abetting obstruction of an official proceeding," per the DOJ.
    • Michetti on Tuesday was also sentenced to 24 months of supervised release and was ordered to pay $2,000 of restitution.


    State of play: Prosecutors sought 18 months in federal prison for Michetti, who they say "was an active participant" in the Jan. 6 riot.


    • "Michetti actively participated in the January 6 attack on the Capitol by, among other actions, entering and remaining in the Capitol for 45 minutes and taunting and yelling obscenities at law enforcement, referring to them as 'f---ing animals,'" per the DOJ.
    • Michetti faced a statutory maximum of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, per the DOJ.


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    Capitol rioter demands prosecutors be banned from calling him a rioter during trial

    The U.S. Capitol rioter who posed for photos with his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk doesn't want prosecutors to call him a rioter during his trial.

    Attorneys for Richard "Bigo" Barnett, who faces multiple charges for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, submitted a list of descriptive terms they hope a judge will prohibit prosecutors from using to describe the Arkansas man and other Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol to help overturn the 2020 election results.

    "Specifically, Mr. Barnett requests that this Honorable Court order the exclusion of 'terrorism,' 'terrorist,' 'insurrection,' 'insurrectionist,' 'mob,' 'rioter,' 'treason,' 'traitor,' 'sedition,' 'conspiracy,' 'attack on the Capitol,' "attack on democracy,' 'threat to democracy,' 'attack on Congress,' 'white supremacy/supremacists,' 'police were killed,' 'stun gun,' and other inflammatory language related to groups such as the 'Proud Boys' and 'Oath Keepers,' as well as references to places on the grounds or in the Capitol where he did not go," his attorneys said in a court filing.

    Barnett's attorneys also asked the court to exclude any news reports that mention police officers who died after the riot, and they want to prohibit prosecutors from introducing video or photo evidence of violent clashes with police officers.

    The attorneys asked the court to bar prosecutors from telling the jury that Barnett, who carried as "ZAP Hike N Strike 950,000 Volt Stun Gun Walking Stick" at the Capitol, legally owned guns and was involved in Second Amendment groups, and they also don't want them to introduce any evidence about Trump's own legal fight to overturn his election loss.

    "Any reference to President Trump’s (hereinafter 'Trump') Stop-the Steal lawsuits, court challenges, or issues raised by Trump’s lawyers about the election and outcomes of those lawsuits should be prohibited as unrelated, highly prejudicial, and overall irrelevant," the attorneys argued. "Mr. Barnett is not an attorney and the legal significance of any lawsuits brought by parties, unrelated to Mr. Barnett, to challenge the elections is irrelevant to Mr. Barnett’s conduct on January 6, 2021 and should be excluded."

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    • Jan. 6 panel "aware" of White House call to rioter, Raskin says


    Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told NBC News Sunday he's "aware" of a White House switchboard call made to a rioter's phone during the U.S. Capitol insurrection.

    Why it matters: Raskin's comments as a member of the Jan. 6 select committee investigating the Capitol riot appear to confirm claims made by former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.), who until April was working as a senior technical adviser to the panel.

    Driving the news: Riggleman told CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview broadcast Sunday there was "a real a-ha moment" when he saw "that the White House switchboard had connected to a rioter's phone" while the Capitol attack was happening.


    • "I only know one end of that call. I don’t know the White House end, which I believe is more important. ... the American people need to know that there are link connections that need to be explored more," he told CBS' Bill Whitaker.


    What they're saying: "That's one of thousands of details that obviously the committee is aware of," said Raskin on NBC's "Meet the Press" in response to Ringleman's comments.


    • "Our job is to put everything into a comprehensive portrait and narrative timeline of what took place," Raskin continued.
    • "It's interesting, but much less interesting than the fact that Donald Trump told the crowd in public, 'You've got to fight like hell. And if you don't, you're not going to have a country anymore," added Raskin, in reference to comments the former president said at a rally before the riot.


    "I can't say anything specific about that particular call, but we are aware of it. And we are aware of lots of contacts between the people in the White House and different people that were involved, obviously, in the coup attempt and the insurrection."
    — Rep. Jamie Raskin

    Meanwhile, fellow Jan. 6 panel member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) stressed to CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday that the committee had looked into issues raised by Riggleman during his work with the committee "ended quite some time ago."


    • "Without the advantage of the additional information we have gathered since he left the committee, it ... poses real risks to be suggesting things," Schiff said.
    • "We have looked into all of these issues. Some of the information we have found on various issues, we will be presenting it to the public for the first time in the hearing coming up."


    Worth noting: Riggleman was speaking with Whitaker ahead of the Tuesday release of his book, "The Breach," about his time as a Jan.6 panel staffer, which the Washington Post notes has "rattled" those on the select committee.


    • The committee in a statement to "60 Minutes" said it "has run down all the leads" that arose from Riggleman's work with the panel, adding he "had limited knowledge of the Committee's investigation."


    Meadows’ text trove revealed a “roadmap to an attempted coup”


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    • Federal jury convicts QAnon believer who led charge during Capitol riot


    A federal jury on Friday convicted a QAnon believer who led a charging mob that was trying to breach the Senate chamber during the Capitol Riot, NBC News reports.

    Driving the news: Douglas Austin Jensen, of Iowa, was one of the first people to breach the Capitol during the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2020, as then-president Trump's followers sought to block the certification of the 2020 election results.


    • Jensen was arrested shortly after and charged with seven federal crimes. The jury found him guilty of all charges, including assaulting and impeding officers, entering and remaining in a restricted building, and disorderly and disruptive conduct.
    • His sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 16.


    Catch up fast: Jensen led a mob toward United States Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman in a "menacing manner," federal officials said. Goodman stood his ground and sought to divert rioters from the Senate chambers while lawmakers were still being evacuated.


    • Video Jensen filmed that day shows him calling for others to “storm the White House” as they streamed into the Capitol.
    • Jensen’s lawyer said his client didn’t realize he stormed the Capitol, not the White House, until a day later and that "shows you how confused and how jumbled his head is,” NBC News reports.


    The other side: Far from confused, prosecutors said Jensen "was the rioter who would not back down” and said he was “weaponizing that mob” when he refused to heed police commands to stand down.

    Background: After spending six months in a Washington D.C. jail, Jensen was released in July to await trial while under a strict form of home detention.


    • Under the terms of his release, he promised he had renounced his belief in the conspiracy theory and would not use the internet.
    • About a month later, Jensen was caught watching videos on election conspiracies, a violation of the terms of his release. He was sent back to jail at the beginning of September.


    By the numbers: More than 850 people have been arrested for their actions on Jan. 6. Jensen joins the ranks of more than 350 people who have been convicted in connection with the Capitol riot, per NBC news.

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    • Mississippi man charged with federal hate crime for allegedly burning cross to threaten Black family


    A 23-year-old man from Mississippi was charged on Friday with a hate crime after allegedly burning a cross in his yard to threaten and intimidate a Black family.

    Axel Cox faces one count of criminal interference with the right to fair housing and one more of using fire to commit a federal felony for allegedly burning the cross in the front yard of his Gulfport, Miss., home, according to a press release from the Department of Justice (DOJ).

    Court documents allege that on Dec. 3, 2020, Cox made “racially derogatory” remarks to his Black neighbors while burning the cross to intimidate them, interfering with their housing rights.

    Cox faces up to 10 years in prison for interference with housing rights and a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison for using fire to commit a federal felony. Each charge also carries a fine of up to $250,000.

    “This is another stark reminder of how bigotry, racism, and hate-fueled violence are alive and well in our country. Mississippi is no exception,” Vangela Wade, president of the Mississippi Center for Justice, told The Associated Press.

    “The fight to dismantle Mississippi’s deeply entrenched culture of injustice and a better tomorrow continues. We are thankful for the courage of the members of the federal grand jury to indict this hate crime.”

    The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division will prosecute the case against Cox alongside Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Cabell Jones for the Southern District of Mississippi.

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    The Jan. 6 select committee is convening Wednesday for what is likely its last public hearing before releasing a final report on its findings and recommendations.

    Why it matters: This week's hearing will bookend the investigation into the Capitol riot that has spanned more than a year and has included more than 130,000 documents and testimony from more than 1,000 witnesses.

    The big picture: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif), a Jan. 6 panel member, previewed the final hearing on Sunday, saying: "I can say that, as this may be the last hearing of this nature — that is, one that is focused on sort of the factual record — I think it'll be potentially more sweeping than some of the other hearings."


    • Committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) also offered a teaser of the hearing, saying the panel has "substantial footage of what occurred ... [and] significant witness testimony that we haven't used in other hearings."


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    • The select committee has said that it plans to release a final report after the midterm election, but plenty of news could be made before then, Axios' Andrew Solender and Alayna Treene report.
    • The committee, which has said that the election is not a big factor in planning, also said it plans to release early findings and recommendations before the election.


    The bottom line: Finally, one question underpinning the panel's work is whether the final report should include a criminal referral regarding Trump's conduct.


    • Schiff said Sunday that if a referral is made, it should be unanimous among panel members.
    • “It will be certainly, I think, my recommendation, my feeling that we should make referrals, but we will get to a decision as a committee, and we will all abide by that decision, and I will join our committee members if they feel differently," he told CNN.


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    • Wisconsin GOP speaker sues Jan. 6 committee, asks to block subpoena


    Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) on Sunday filed a lawsuit against the Jan. 6 select committee after receiving a subpoena calling him to testify before the committee Monday morning.

    Driving the news: In a letter dated Friday, committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) wrote that the committee wished to question Vos regarding a phone call he received this July from former President Donald Trump in which Trump pressured Vos to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results.

    The letter recounts that after Vos told Trump that his request was impossible, the former president derided Vos on social media and endorsed his primary challenger.

    "The circumstances and details regarding your interactions with former President Trump related to the 2020 election are relevant to the Select Committee's investigation and proposed recommendations," Thompson added in the letter.

    Lawyers for Vos at Graves Garrett LLC and a representative for the Jan. 6 committee did not immediately respond to Axios' requests for comment.

    State of play: Vos states in his lawsuit that the subpoena "imposes an undue burden, seeks to infringe on Speaker Vos’ legislative immunity from civil process, lacks a lawful purpose, and was issued from an unlawful Committee."

    The lawsuit noted that Vos received the subpoena summons on Saturday afternoon, giving him less than 48 hours' notice to appear before the committee.

    The lawsuit ads that the "only explanation" for the proposed timeline would be to receive Vos' testimony before the committee's next planned hearing on Wednesday, "so that clips can be edited out to be used in a multimedia show."

    The lawsuit notes that Vos is seeking an injunction to stop the subpoena.

    The big picture: Other people who have been called to testify before the committee — including Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, also a gubernatorial candidate, and far-right conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones — have sued the committee, but those suits have either been unsuccessful or remain undecided, per CNN.

    https://www.axios.com/2022/09/26/wis...an-6-committee

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    • ‘Let’s get right to the violence’: New documentary film footage shows Roger Stone pre-Election Day


    The day before the 2020 election, Roger Stone, the long-time Republican operative and ally of former President Donald Trump, said in front of a documentary film crew that he had no interest in waiting to tally actual votes before contesting the election results.

    “F**k the voting, let’s get right to the violence,” Stone can be heard saying, according to footage provided by a Danish documentary film crew and obtained by CNN.

    The clip is one of multiple pieces of footage obtained by CNN that the filmmakers also shared with the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. The filmmakers tell CNN they came to an agreement to share certain clips with the committee after a subpoena for the footage was signed by the panel’s chairman, Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, and delivered to the filmmakers in Copenhagen about two months ago.

    The filmmakers, Christoffer Guldbrandsen and Frederik Marbell, followed Stone for portions of about three years for their documentary film.

    The footage shared with the committee may be incorporated into its upcoming hearing this week. Committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, suggested publicly over the weekend that the panel has more to reveal about the connection between Stone and domestic extremist groups, as well as efforts to keep Trump in power after the US Capitol attack and the ongoing threats to democracy.

    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/26/p...ilm/index.html

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    • Ohio man pleads guilty to felony Jan. 6 charge


    An Ohio man on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

    A release from the D.C. U.S. attorney’s office said that 55-year-old John Douglas Wright helped 100 people travel to Washington on two charter buses he owned. According to the statement of offense Wright signed in his plea agreement, he charged travelers $50 to make the trip on his buses.

    After parking the buses at Union Station, a few blocks from the Capitol, Wright — wearing a “Trump Pence 2020” hoodie — and the others he had traveled with breached the grounds of the building, where a joint session of Congress was meeting to certify the 2020 presidential electoral college votes.

    The Canton, Ohio, man is facing up to 20 years in prison for his actions during the breach, which the U.S. attorney for D.C. said included pushing against federal law enforcement in an attempt to knock down a metal barricade outside the Capitol.

    Wright entered the building and streamed a live video to Facebook as he walked through the Capitol Rotunda. After posting the video, but before exiting the building, he smoked a cigarette.

    In the days leading up to and shortly after the Jan. 6 attack, Wright posted on social media in all-caps commentary on the plans, according to his plea agreement.

    “IT’S F—— WAR TIME,” Wright reportedly said on his Facebook account. “THE FIRST MISTAKE WE MAKE IN CHAMBERS WE ARE GOING IN AND DRAG THEM OUT.”

    “YESTERDAY WAS A PRACTICE RUN,” he reportedly added.

    Arrested in early May, Wright is now set for sentencing on Nov. 28.

    According to the release, more than 850 individuals have been arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 attack in the year and a half since. Wright’s case is being prosecuted by the U.S. attorney for D.C. and the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, and it is being investigated by an FBI field office in Ohio.

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    The Jan. 6 select committee’s Wednesday hearing has been postponed as Hurricane Ian bears down on Florida, panel leaders announced Tuesday.

    The hearing was expected to be the last from the select panel, likely highlighting former President Donald Trump’s continued efforts to delegitimize the results of the 2020 election he lost. The committee was expected to feature testimony from members of Trump’s Cabinet it interviewed in August, who told lawmakers about internal discussions to invoke the 25th Amendment — an attempt to remove Trump from power in the final days of his presidency.

    “We’re praying for the safety of all those in the storm’s path. The Select Committee’s investigation goes forward and we will soon announce a date for the postponed proceedings,” select committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in a statement Tuesday.

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    A federal judge sentenced an Iowa man to 86 months in prison on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to assaulting Washington, D.C., police officer Michael Fanone during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

    Kyle Young, 38, pleaded guilty in May to assaulting, resisting or impeding officers after prosecutors said he supplied another rioter with a taser he then used against Fanone.

    Prosecutors added that Young threw a large speaker toward police, jabbed a pole at officers and pointed a strobe light at them.

    Fanone gained national attention after testifying publicly before the House Jan. 6 committee last summer, when he described the incident and railed against former President Trump and other elected officials who he said downplayed the riot’s severity.

    Fanone, who suffered a heart attack as a result of his Jan. 6 injuries, now works for CNN and wrote an op-ed for the outlet published earlier on Tuesday saying he would attend Young’s sentencing in person.

    “What do I think Young deserves?” Fanone wrote. “Not less than 10 years in prison. And an assigned cell in maximum security with his co-conspirator: Donald Trump.”

    The judge’s sentence mirrors prosecutors’ recommendation while bucking Young’s attorney, who requested Young be sentenced to no more than 24 months of imprisonment.

    “Shortly after the incident, Mr. Young saw his information on an FBI list associated with the protest,” Young’s attorney wrote in the sentencing request. “He immediately turned himself in. He has been fully cooperative in subsequent investigations and maintained remorse through court proceedings. Mr. Young regrets his actions and wants to take responsibility.”

    Young — who brought his son to the riot and spent some of his time at the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace, where some of the most violent images from Jan. 6 emerged — is the first of four defendants charged with assaulting Fanone to be sentenced.

    ‘Afraid of losing their power’: Judge decries GOP leaders who back Trump election claims

    “The judiciary … has to make it clear: It is not patriotism, it is not standing up for America to stand up for one man — who knows full well that he lost — instead of the Constitution he was trying to subvert,” said Jackson, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama.

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    Citing ‘Threats and Harassment,’ Feds Want Name of FBI Agent Who Signed ‘Revised’ Mar-a-Lago Inventory Kept Secret

    The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday filed a three-page motion to keep secret the name of an FBI supervisor who signed an affidavit connected to a so-called “Revised Detailed Property Inventory” of materials seized from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.

    As of the time of this report, U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon has not ruled on the request to file an unredacted copy of the document in question which bears the full name of the FBI supervisor involved. A blacked-out copy of the document has been in the case file since Monday.

    https://s3.documentcloud.org/documen...under-seal.pdf

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    felony charges carry a total of 91 maximum years in prison, and the four misdemeanor offenses carry a maximum of three years in prison. Both felony and misdemeanor charges carry the potential for financial penalties.



    A man charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot has been found guilty by a U.S. District judge in D.C. on all 11 counts.

    Kyle Fitzsimons, 39, of Lebanon, Maine, was charged with seven felonies and four misdemeanor counts, according to court documents corroborated by a news release from the Department of Justice.

    The release states Fitzsimons' was found guilty of seven felony charges:

    One count of obstruction of an official proceeding;

    + Four counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers, including two involving a dangerous weapon or bodily injury;
    + One count of interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder;
    + One count of engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds.
    + Fitzsimons was also found guilty of four misdemeanor charges:

    + Entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds;
    + Disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds;
    + Disorderly conduct in a Capitol Building or grounds;
    + Committing an act of violence in the Capitol Building or grounds.

    According to the news release, the felony charges carry a total of 91 maximum years in prison, and the four misdemeanor offenses carry a maximum of three years in prison. Both felony and misdemeanor charges carry the potential for financial penalties.

    "Mr. Fitzsimons' fervent belief in the lies he was being told about the election is truly saddening, and to be sure much of the blame for the offense that day rests with the people in positions of power who spread those lies," Contreras said during the verdict.

    According to the news release and earlier reporting, Fitzsimons was wearing a white butcher's jacket and a fur pelt when he "hurled an unstrung bow like a spear" at a group of law enforcement officers.

    "The object hit an officer with the Metropolitan Police Department in the ballistic helmet and bounced off. Fitzsimons reached for and made forcible contact with an MPD detective immediately before another rioter sprayed him with a chemical agent," the release states. "Fitzsimons also tried to pull a fallen officer into the mob. A sergeant from the U.S. Capitol Police tried to protect the fallen officer into the mob. A sergeant from the U.S. Capitol Police tried to protect the fallen officer, and Fitzsimons grappled with him, pulling on his shield and shoulder strap, causing injuries to the sergeant's shoulder that necessitated surgery. Finally, Fitzsimons twice charged [at] the group of officers, wildly swinging his fists. He eventually retreated."

    The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia and was assisted by the Department of Justice Security Division's Counterterrorism Section, and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maine. In addition, the case was investigated by the FBI's Boston Field office and its Portland Resident Agency, the release states.

    Maine Man Found Guilty of Felony and Misdemeanor Charges Related to Capitol Breach | USAO-DC | Department of Justice

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    U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas' failure to disclose more than $680,000 of his wife's income in filings over a decade ago has re-emerged as she is set to meet with the House of Representatives January 6 committee.

    Lawyer and conservative activist Virginia "Ginni" Thomas was paid $686,589 by the conservative Heritage Foundation from 2003 to 2007 but Justice Thomas did not report that income in financial disclosures for those years.

    As The Los Angeles Times reported in 2011, Thomas had checked a box saying "none" in a section of his disclosure that asked for information about "spousal noninvestment income."

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    Another North Texan pleaded guilty to federal charges for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot attack.

    Daniel Ray Caldwell from The Colony admitted to assaulting law enforcement officers with dangerous weapons during the riot.

    According to court documents, Caldwell used chemical spray on more than a dozen officers.

    Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes' path: From Yale to jail

    Federal agents found video clips that showed him "assaulting federal agents and engaging in disruptive and disorderly conduct on the lower west terrace of the Capitol building," according to the official statement of facts filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington.

    In a video published on Twitter by ProPublica, Caldwell was interviewed about being in the crowd outside the Capitol. He recalled how police used rubber bullets to try to control the crowd.

    "We stayed there and they kept spraying pepper spray," he said. "I was like, 'Dude, do it again, and I'll spray you back.' And he did, and I sprayed back; got like 15 of them and that's when they shot me with that big canon with rubber bullets."

    Capitol rioter accused of assaulting cops with chemical spray served as Marine

    Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Officers With a Dangerous Weapon During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach | USAO-DC | Department of Justice

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    The man who survived a shooting by Kyle Rittenhouse that left two others dead during a Wisconsin protest in 2020 has filed a secret petition to change his legal name because of what he now says was continued harassment related to the case.

    Gaige Grosskreutz has called for an investigation by the Milwaukee County Clerk of Circuit Court on how the sealed petition was leaked to a conservative news outlet this week.

    Grosskreutz, 29, of West Allis, issued a statement after the petition became public. It said he has received death threats in the two years since he was shot in the arm during a protest in Kenosha and that he was seeking the name change to protect him and his family.

    “But the real story here isn’t that I am seeking to change my name, but that a process that is supposed to protect and shield those in danger was undermined and sealed information was released to the right wing media within hours of my filing,” the statement said.

    Grosskreutz’s attorney, Kimberley Motley, has requested records of who had access to the petition on Tuesday, the day it was filed with the clerk.

    Clerk of Courts George Christenson said he has begun looking into the matter, the Journal Sentinel reported.

    Grosskreutz was shot by Rittenhouse on Aug. 25, 2020, after Rittenhouse fatally shot two other men with an AR-15-style rifle during a violent protest that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake Jr.

    The jury acquitted Rittenhouse of all charges after he claimed he shot all three men in self-defense.

    The confidential name change petition was first reported by the Kenosha County Eye, whose editor, Kevin Mathewson, was himself a figure in the protest. Mathewson is a former Kenosha alderman who called for armed people to come and defend the city in a post to a Facebook account called The Kenosha Guard.

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    Twelve Washington, D.C. residents have been selected out of a pool of dozens to serve as jurors on the highest-profile trial to date in the Justice Department's sprawling investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

    The jury was selected by prosecutors and defense attorneys for the five defendants on trial; members of the Oath Keepers group accused of forcibly resisting the peaceful transfer of power from former President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden during the joint session of Congress held to certify 2020 election results.

    The high-profile trial – which is set to resume Monday with opening arguments – will be a test for the Justice Department after charging Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and his associates with seditious conspiracy, the most serious charge so far levied as a result of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

    Rhodes and Florida residents Kelly Meggs and Kenneth Harrelson; Jessica Watkins, of Ohio; and Thomas Caldwell, of Virginia, all stand accused of planning the attack with other Oath Keepers in the months before Jan. 6, including allegedly stockpiling weapons in a Washington, D.C.-area hotel room, and coordinating movements both in and around the Capitol throughout the riot. All five pleaded not guilty to the multi-count indictment against them.

    Also under pressure as the trial got underway with jury selection was Washington, D.C.'s federal court, tasked with finding the newly-minted group of twelve jurors plus four alternates to sit as fair arbiters on the politically-charged trial that is set to last more than a month.

    Over the course of three days, Judge Amit Mehta and the attorneys probed the backgrounds of the residents randomly selected as potential jurors in the case.

    They were asked about their views on the Jan. 6 attack – most said it was either disturbing or disappointing – and whether they had any familiarity with the Oath Keepers group, which is described as a loosely-organized group of right-wing, anti-government extremists. Attorneys also pressed the individuals on their views of Trump and his supporters.

    Jurors were not required to hold neutral views about the attack or hold no prior knowledge of the militia group to be deemed qualified. Instead, the court pressed them on whether they could dispel any preconceived notions to maintain a neutral stance toward evidence presented at trial, a job some said they found too difficult given their views on either Trump, Jan. 6 or the defendants themselves.

    And in some instances, defense attorneys asked the residents about their social media habits, presenting the court with snippets from the individual's social media posts found online during questioning.

    The potential jurors who faced questioning held numerous positions in and around government service - from a USAID employee to an attorney who worked at the Department of Labor. Many had connections to the Capitol itself, either through friends or neighbors, and even in one case, an internship in college.

    And while the consensus among the group was that the events of Jan. 6 were "very disturbing," some said they had consumed little if any news that day and had no interest in the ensuing coverage. News, said one juror who was later excused, was "boring and for old people."

    Ultimately, the surveyed group was whittled down to the final 12 jurors, comprised of individuals who attended rallies for women's rights in the nation's capital, work for TSA or the State Department, and have relatives who serve in law enforcement.

    The government has alleged and will have to prove to this jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the group's planning, communication and coordination were vital components of the chaos that occurred that day and were meant to impede both Congress' lawful function and the peaceful transfer of power. Defense attorneys have indicated they will argue the Oath Keepers were present on Jan. 6 not to riot or resist Mr. Biden's presidency, but provide protection and first aid to protesters and those speaking at rallies in support of Trump. Other lawyers have asked the court to allow them to invoke the Insurrection Act as a defense, arguing their clients were waiting for the former president to call on militia groups to take action, a call which never came.

    Before dismissing the newly-selected jury for the day on Thursday, Mehta said he was sure they did not expect at the start of the week that they would be in for such a trial. After this jury renders its verdict - whatever it is - Mehta and the courthouse restart the entire process as four more alleged Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy are set to stand trial.

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    Accused Jan. 6th Rioter Dubbed ‘JackTheTripper’ for Allegedly Pushing Bike Rack into Law Enforcement Charged with Felonies

    An accused U.S. Capitol rioter dubbed with the hashtag #JackTheTripper by online sleuths for allegedly attacking police with a bike rack now faces felony charges of assaulting law enforcement and civil disorder.

    “Slye used a bike rack type barricade to intentionally trip a Capitol Police Officer, identified below as D.T., while the officer and his team were attempting to rescue another officer caught in the crowd,” the FBI’s 17-page affidavit states.

    The FBI credits Sedition Hunters with a breakthrough in the investigation some six months later on June 18, 2021, when the group posted the suspect’s photographs and alleged crime in a graphic sporting their “SH” logo.

    Like numerous other Jan. 6-related defendants, Slye allegedly courted his identification and arrest by speaking in a YouTube video on the day of the U.S. Capitol breach.

    “The video is titled ‘Stop The Steal Rally – Jan 6, 2021’ and is approximately 32 minutes and 22 seconds in length,” the affidavit states. “In the approximately 54 second segment that features Slye, he answers several questions posed by the interviewer. This ‘interview’ video allowed investigators to identify the clothing that Slye was wearing on January 6, 2021 which was a black ‘Trump’ stocking cap featuring the former President’s signature, a blue coat splatter with what appears to be white paint, a grey hooded sweatshirt and a yellow kerchief type mask with what appear to be speech bubbles on it.”

    Authorities say that another video “captures Slye throw the bike rack type barrier in front of Officer J.T., tripping him and causing him to fall down the flight of stairs.”

    Prosecutors say that Slye also illegally entered the Capitol, twice.

    In addition to the two felony counts against him, Slye also faces six misdemeanors. He was arrested on Friday and had an appearance scheduled in in the Western District of Pennsylvania.

    https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/press-release/file/1539596/download

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