Christian Ziegler, the husband of Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, is under criminal investigation after a woman filed a complaint with police alleging the longtime Republican official had raped her, the Florida Trident reports. 

The woman also alleged that she and both Zieglers had been involved in a longstanding consensual three-way sexual relationship prior to the incident.

Associated Press: “For a dozen years as a rural sheriff, Mike Parson was the face of justice, the man ultimately responsible for catching and locking up local lawbreakers. Now governor, Parson also has become the face of mercy by pardoning more than 600 people in the past three years.”

“It coincides with a national movement to restore citizens’ rights and reputations after they have served criminal sentences.”

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday at a federal prison in Arizona, the AP reports.

The wife of Jeremy Taylor (R), who ran for a U.S. House seat in Iowa in 2020, was found guilty of 52 counts of voter fraud Tuesday, Iowa Public Radio reports.

Kim Phuong Taylor faces up to five years in prison on each count.

A January 6 rioter who represented himself during a jury trial and advanced sovereign citizen arguments that a federal judge described as “bullshit” and “gobbledygook” was found guilty Tuesday and ordered into government custody, NBC News reports.

“An Ohio man who assaulted law enforcement officers during the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and who the Justice Department said became a ‘one-man misinformation machine’ as he spread lies online about what occurred that day, was sentenced on Thursday to four years and 10 months in prison,” the New York Times reports.

“The man who broke into the home of Nancy Pelosi last year and bludgeoned her husband was convicted Thursday on federal charges of trying to kidnap the then-House speaker and assaulting one of her family members because of her work in Congress,” the Washington Post reports.

David DePape, the man accused of breaking into Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s home and attacking her husband with a hammer, burst into tears as he testified at his federal trial on Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

A former fundraiser for Rep. George Santos (R-NY) pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal wire fraud charge, admitting he impersonated a high-ranking congressional aide while raising campaign cash, Politico reports.

An associate of a Jan. 6 defendant pleaded guilty this week to charges that the two men plotted “to murder employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” NBC News reports.

“Authorities on Thursday were trying to determine who sent suspicious letters, including some containing fentanyl or other substances, to local election offices, an attack that appears to have targeted multiple states in the latest instance of threats faced by election workers around the country,” the AP reports.

“Officials in at least three states — Georgia, Oregon and Washington — reported concerns over letters targeting election workers.”

“A manhunt was underway on Wednesday as the FBI and several local police departments searched central New Jersey for a man wanted in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol,” the New York Times reports.

“The FBI circulated a photo that it said showed the man, Gregory Yetman, taking part in the attack two years ago.”

“Federal officials have decided the FBI will leave its iconic but decaying headquarters in downtown Washington for the Maryland suburbs,” the Washington Post reports.

“The move follows years of pointed arguments about where the multi-billion dollar project should land.”

“The Justice Department said Wednesday it is investigating politicians, military officers and government contractors for buying sex through a high-end brothel network operating in Massachusetts and the D.C. suburbs,” Politico reports.

“The defendants allegedly rented high-end apartments, paid for women’s flights and transportation, and advertised sexual services available for hourly rates that ranged from $350 to $600. Prospective buyers were instructed to fill out forms with detailed personal information, including their names, addresses, employers, and a ‘reference if they have one,’ prosecutors said in court papers.”

The Justice Department said it is investigating numerous people who may have paid for sex, including “politicians, high tech and pharmaceutical executives, doctors, military officers, government contractors that possess security clearances, professors, lawyers, scientists and accountants.”

“A Texas man accused of forcefully removing a Capitol Police officer’s gas mask during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the Capitol, was sentenced to 7 years in prison on Friday,” The Hill reports.

“A former Donald Trump political appointee at the State Department who tried to storm the Capitol and assaulted law enforcement officers on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 70 months in prison on Friday,” NBC News reports.

“Federico Klein was arrested in March 2021 and convicted of eight felonies as well as misdemeanor offenses by U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, also a Trump appointee, in July 2023 following a bench trial.”

“A man who was a Princeton University student when he stormed the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Wednesday to two months of incarceration for interfering with police officers trying to hold off a mob of Donald Trump supporters,” the AP reports.