2021-04-23 at 6:41 PM UTC
NBC News
Justice Dept. now expects to charge more than 500 in Capitol riot probe...Manhunt on for the "Polecat"
Pete Williams
The Justice Department has notified federal judges in Washington that it expects to charge more than 500 people with taking part in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
"Over 400 individuals have been charged in connection with the Capitol attack," federal prosecutors said in court documents filed late Thursday. "The investigation continues and the government expects that at least one hundred additional individuals will charged."
The current number of people charged is 440, a law enforcement official said Friday.
Justice Department lawyers have described the sprawling investigation as one of the largest in American history in terms of the number of charges filed and the volume of evidence, which includes more than 15,000 hours of video from surveillance and police body cameras.
Court documents show that those charged come from nearly every state, with Florida, Pennsylvania, and Texas topping the list in number of residents arrested. Roughly 90 percent of the total charged were men, and their average age was 40, according to figures compiled by the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
The majority of those charged are accused of lower-level offenses, such as entering a federal building without permission and trying to disrupt the official counting of the Electoral College vote for president. A few dozen face more serious charges of assaulting police officers or damaging government property.
Prosecutors have also filed conspiracy charges against members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. They are accused of playing a more central role in planning and leading the Capitol siege or encouraging others to join it.
One member of the Oath Keepers, Jon Schaffer of Indiana, has pleaded guilty to entering the Capitol while wearing a tactical vest and armed with bear spray. He has agreed to cooperate with investigators.
Answering one of the big questions stemming from the riot, the chief medical examiner in Washington determined that U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died the day following the siege after suffering two strokes. But investigators are still searching for whoever planted two pipe bombs at the national offices of the Republican and Democratic parties near the Capitol the night before the riot.
2021-04-23 at 7:02 PM UTC
DONALD TRUMP NEEDS YOUR MONEY
The Hill
City of Albuquerque refers $211K Trump campaign bill to collection agency
Morgan Gstalter
The city of Albuquerque has referred a $211,175.94 bill for former President Trump's reelection campaign rally in 2019 to a professional debt collection agency.
The outstanding invoice has remained unpaid since the event in nearby Rio Rancho. City officials covered the security costs of the then-president's stay at a downtown Albuquerque hotel, The Albuquerque Journal reported Thursday.
The six-figure tab includes the costs of blocking off City Hall and parts of downtown, as well as overtime pay for police officers.
The city previously said that it incurred $7,102 in costs for barricades during Trump's visit and $132,831 in paid time off for city employees. It also said assistance from the Albuquerque Police Department provided during Trump's campaign visit amounted to $71,242.
A spokeswoman for the city of Rio Rancho - where Trump actually hosted the rally - said that the campaign "made it clear that they would not reimburse the City for those ancillary costs that occurred outside of the event." The campaign has also not paid Rio Rancho the $239,475 associated with his visit.
Bernalillo County, which also invoiced Trump for the 2019 visit, told the newspaper that the county ultimately wrote off the $139,183.52 unpaid bill as a "bad debt."
"In my mind, he owes us a lot more because there was about a day and a half where we couldn't even function as a city," Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller (D) said during an appearance on "The Daily Show" this week.
Lorena Sanchez, a spokesperson for the city, told the Albuquerque Journal that officials have been attempting to collect payment for months, even mailing the bill to Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida this month.
Keller discussed how all of the city's attempts to contact Trump and his campaign have reportedly been ignored.
"He [Trump] should be getting these annoying voicemails that, like, we get usually from scam companies where it's like 'You owe debts,' " Keller told Jordan Klepper, a correspondent for the Comedy Central TV show. "I think Mar-a-Lago is now getting those calls."
It is a standard process for the city to send bills that are 61 to 90 days old to collections agencies. Sanchez told the newspaper that there are currently 2,517 city invoices in collections.
Michael Glassner, the then-chief operating officer of Trump's campaign, told The Hill in 2019 that "it is the U.S. Secret Service, not the campaign, which coordinates with local law enforcement."
"The campaign itself does not contract with local governments for police involvement. All billing inquiries should always go to the Secret Service," he said.
The Hill has reached out to Trump's office for comment.
Albuquerque is not the only city attempting to collect outstanding debts from the Trump campaign. City officials in El Paso, Texas, said in November that they are hiring legal counsel in their fight to obtain more than half a million dollars stemming from a February 2019 rally.
2021-04-23 at 11:54 PM UTC
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2021-04-24 at 1:49 AM UTC
Fair elections are now gone for good. For real. It's all literal banana republic shit from here on in, and the masses are so dumbed-down lazy, spineless and stupid, it will never go back to the way it was.
2021-04-24 at 1:55 AM UTC
Originally posted by Sudo
This is like 4th hand heresay tweet of fake news. I like some stuff BAP has written but goddamn is this ever false and gay. Did you fall for this?
You are the one who supports the legitimacy of an election arranged by and for the US intelligence community and deep state, who have rigged elections all over the world.
I'd suggest the burden of proof lies upon your shoulders on this one.
Map is not accurate, the true extent is much greater.
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2021-04-24 at 2:14 AM UTC
The Russians could very well have hacked the 2020 election to help Biden. We need an Independent Council consisting of 17 angry Republicans for two and a half years to get to the bottom of it.
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2021-04-24 at 2:21 AM UTC
My anonymous sources all confirm, Russia definitely hacked the 2020 election.
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2021-04-24 at 3:36 AM UTC
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And Biden is most probably working directly for Vladimir Putin and carrying water for the Kremlin. We need to hold four years of congressional and senate hearings to find out for sure.
Anonymous sources confirm. I have lots of documents that prove it, but they're all secret. National security and all.
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