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Crime and Justice News
Jan 24, 20232 min read
Arkansan Who Put His Feet on Pelosi Office Desk Is Convicted
Richard Barnett, who put his feet up on a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office as rioters swarmed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 16, 20232 min read
First Acquittal On Obstruction Charge In Capitol Riot Case
A federal judge ruled that a Jan. 6, 2021, defendant who said he entered the Senate floor to “plead the blood of Jesus” and absolve the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 6, 20231 min read
950 Charged So Far For Roles In January 6, 2021 Capitol Attack
Two years after a violent mob forced its way into the U.S. Capitol, more than 950 people have been charged for their roles in the riot,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 5, 20232 min read
FBI Increases Reward To $500K For Info On January 2021 Pipe Bombs
The FBI increased the reward for information about pipe bombs placed outside both the Republican National Committee and Democratic...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 3, 20232 min read
Post-911 Security Intel Plans 'Failed Miserably' On Jan. 6, Ex-Chief Says
In a firsthand account of the frantic efforts of Capitol Police officers to protect Congress from an armed mob on Jan. 6, 2021, Steven...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 23, 20222 min read
House Jan. 6 Panel Says Law Enforcement 'Not To Blame' For Riot
The final report of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot identified failures of communication and...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 20, 20221 min read
House Jan. 6 Referral 'Will Not Change The Outcome' At DOJ
The historic criminal referral by the House Jan. 6 committee urging the Justice Department to pursue charges against President Trump is...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 19, 20222 min read
Jury Selection to Start In Sedition Case Against Proud Boys
On Jan. 6, 2021, as scores of Proud Boys were getting ready to take their place in a pro-Trump mob outside the Capitol, a leader of the...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 19, 20222 min read
Jan. 6 Panel Urging DOJ To Consider Criminal Charges Against Trump
The House Jan. 6 committee is wrapping up its investigation of the violent 2021 U.S. Capitol insurrection. Lawmakers are expected to cap...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 13, 20222 min read
Appeals Court Debates Charge Invoked In 300 Capitol Riot Cases
Hundreds of prosecutions in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot are hanging in the balance as a panel of federal judges decide the...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 12, 20222 min read
Missouri Man Sentenced In Capitol Riot Said Trump Is To Blame
An Independence, Mo., man sentenced for breaching the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, blamed former President Trump, right-wing media and other...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 7, 20221 min read
Family Of Officer Who Died After Jan. 6 Assault Snubs GOP Leaders
The family of a deceased U.S. Capitol police officer refused to shake hands with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R=KY) and House...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 7, 20221 min read
House Jan. 6 Panel Plans Criminal Referrals to Justice Department
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol will make criminal referrals to the Justice Department as...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 30, 20222 min read
Oath Keepers Founder Rhodes Found Guilty of Sedition
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was convicted Tuesday of seditious conspiracy for a violent plot to overturn President Biden’s...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 22, 20222 min read
First Woman Convicted By Jury in Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol Riot
A Pennsylvania woman who joined a mob in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office suite on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted Monday of impeding...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 18, 20222 min read
Jan. 6 Committee Readies Potential Criminal Referrals Against Trump
As the House January 6 select committee wraps up its work before Republicans take control of the House and shut down the inquiry, a new...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 28, 20222 min read
Jan. 6 Rioter Who Assaulted Officer Gets 90 Months In Prison
A Jan. 6, 2021 rioter has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for brutally assaulting a police officer, Politico reports....
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 24, 20222 min read
Trump Subpoena Sets Up Potential Legal Test
In what is shaping up as a potential constitutional clash — or a mere postscript to the upcoming midterm elections — the House committee...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 21, 20221 min read
DOJ Asks Congress For $34M More To Prosecute Capitol Rioters
The Biden administration needs $34 million more to bring the Jan. 6 rioters to justice, but it’s not clear Congress will grant that...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 17, 20222 min read
DOJ Seeks Six-Month Prison Term For Steve Bannon In Jan. 6 Case
Federal prosecutors urged a judge to make former President Trump’s political confidant Stephen Bannon the first person to be imprisoned...
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