“A federal judge on Friday delayed the contempt of Congress trial for former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro, likely for months, to allow for additional pre-trial debate over the role executive privilege could play when the case goes to a jury,” CNN reports.
Paul Pelosi Attack Video to Be Released
“Video and audio recorded last year during the attack on Paul Pelosi will be released Friday, after a California court ruled the district attorney’s office must make the materials public,” CNN reports.
Proud Boys Were Expecting a ‘Civil War’
“The month before the riot at the U.S. Capitol, members of the Proud Boys were growing increasingly angry about the outcome of the 2020 election and were expecting a ‘civil war,’ a former member told jurors on Tuesday as he took the stand in the seditious conspiracy case against the group’s former leader,” the AP reports.
Prosecutor Says Trump Charging Decisions Are ‘Imminent’
The Georgia prosecutor investigating former President Donald Trump and his allies for possible criminal interference in that state’s 2020 presidential election told a judge Tuesday that decisions on whether and whom to charge in the probe “are imminent,” CNBC reports.
“Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis cited that plan during a hearing in Atlanta, where she urged the judge to keep sealed for now a final special grand jury report that was assembled to gather evidence and hear testimony for that investigation.”
Oath Keepers Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy
“A jury on Monday convicted four members of the extremist group the Oath Keepers of seditious conspiracy,” NBC News reports.
“Prosecutors said the four defendants — Roberto Minuta, Joseph Hackett, David Moerschel and Edward Vallejo — used a ‘perverted version of American history’ to justify their actions on Jan. 6, 2021.”
Ex-FBI Official Took Payments from Russian Oligarch
“A former high-level FBI official has been indicted on charges that he conspired to violate U.S. sanctions on Russia by taking secret payments from a Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, in return for investigating a rival oligarch,” the New York Times reports.
“The former official, Charles McGonigal, who had been the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.’s counterintelligence division in New York before he retired in 2018, had supervised and participated in investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Mr. Deripaska, the government said.”
Man Who Breached Pelosi’s Office Found Guilty
Richard “Bigo” Barnett — the self-described “fucking idiot” who was photographed with his feet up on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk during the January 6 Capitol riot — was found guilty on all counts, CBS News reports.
It took the jury barely two hours to come to a decision.
North Carolina Auditor Charged in Hit-and-Run
North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood (D) is charged with fleeing the scene of an accident, WRAL reports.
Judge Won’t Dismiss Contempt Charges Against Navarro
“A federal judge declined Thursday to dismiss the criminal contempt of Congress charge brought against former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro for his failure to comply with a subpoena from the House select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol,” CNN reports.
3 Active-Duty Marines Charged in January 6 Capitol Riot
Three active-duty Marines have been hit with federal misdemeanor charges for their alleged roles in the Capitol siege by a mob of Trump supporters, the Daily Beast reports.
Judge Says Rioter Was Following Trump’s Direction
A federal judge said that a California woman who breached the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection “followed then-President Trump’s instructions” in breaking the law, Axios reports.
Political Aide Accuses Matt Schlapp of Groping Him
“Matt Schlapp, the head of one of the nation’s largest conservative advocacy groups and an adviser to former President Donald Trump, was accused in a lawsuit on Tuesday of groping an employee on Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign in October,” the New York Times reports.
“The lawsuit, filed in the Virginia Circuit Court in Alexandria, accuses Mr. Schlapp of ‘aggressively fondling’ the man’s ‘genital area in a sustained fashion’ while the two were alone in a car.”
Suspect in Shootings Called Himself ‘the MAGA King’
The failed GOP candidate accused of plotting shootings at Democratic officials’ homes called himself “the MAGA King” and said he was “researching his options” after he lost his state election by nearly 50 points, Insider reports.
Axios: What we know about the former GOP candidate arrested for shootings at New Mexico Democrats’ homes.
Failed GOP Candidate Visited Homes Before Shootings
“A failed New Mexico state House candidate visited the homes of local Democratic leaders to vehemently dispute his election loss weeks before he allegedly orchestrated a series of shootings at the residences,” NBC News reports.
Ex-Republican Candidate Arrested in Shootings
Albuquerque Journal: “The Albuquerque Police Department has arrested Solomon Pena, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for House District 14 seat in the South Valley, in connection with the shootings at local Democratic politicians’ homes.”
Said police chief Harold Medina: “Pena, an unsuccessful legislative candidate in the 2022 election, is accused of conspiring with, and paying four other men to shoot at the homes of two county commissioners and two state legislators.”
Steve Bannon Ghosts His Defense Lawyers
“Stephen Bannon has been ghosting his defense lawyers in his ‘We Build The Wall’ charity scam case for months, those lawyers said in a court appearance in Manhattan state court Thursday,” Insider reports.
“Prosecutors and the judge presiding over the case complained in court that Bannon’s ongoing refusal to speak directly to his previously-chosen legal team risks delaying the case, which has sputtered along in the months since his September arraignment on charges of money laundering, conspiracy, and scheme to defraud.”
Louisiana Democrat Sentenced to 22 Months
“Former Louisiana Democratic Party leader Karen Carter Peterson, who resigned from the state Senate last year year citing depression and a gambling addiction — and later pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud — was sentenced on Wednesday to 22 months in prison,” the AP reports.
Sam Bankman-Fried Speaks
Theodore Schleifer interviewed Sam Bankman-Fried, who is under House arrest at his parent’s house.
“During our time together — about one-third on the record, two-thirds off — Sam evinced his loneliness and his isolation, but also a hint of mysterious confidence, as if he could somehow wiggle his way out of his current predicament as he had in the past. He spoke carefully and repentantly when on the record, and loosely and almost gamely when off it.”
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