U.S. Justice Department officials on Tuesday said they’ve opened cases on some 170 people linked to last week’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, with many facing charges of sedition carrying up to 20 years in prison.
Of those cases, some 70 people have been charged, a figure that’s expected to grow into the “hundreds,” said Michael Sherwin, acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
He and Steven D’Antuono, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office, provided an update Tuesday afternoon of the federal investigation into Wednesday’s siege at the Capitol.
“The brutality the American people watched … will not be tolerated by the FBI,” D’Antuono said.
He said the FBI has received more than 100,000 tips, photos and videos from the riot in which scores of President Donald Trump supporters breached a Capitol Police line and forced their way into the Capitol. Five people died, including one Capitol Police officer and four rioters.
Sherwin said authorities filed dozens of criminal complaints in the days since the riot — many on minor charges. He said more serious charges will likely come once formal indictments are handed down.
Sherwin said there will be a “mind-blowing” range of charges, including simple trespass and theft of mail, increasing in seriousness to murder, assault on federal officers and theft of potential national defense information.
“We’re looking at significant felony cases tied to sedition and conspiracy … that have felonies with prison terms of up to 20 years,” he said.
Task forces have been established to focus on cases involving weapons and destructive devices, assault and battery cases against officers, and assault cases against members of the media.
The FBI is seeking more information related to the siege and is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the suspect or suspects who built and left pipe bombs outside the offices of the Democratic and Republican National Committees’ headquarters.
“This is not going to be solved overnight,” Sherwin said. “This is going to be a longterm investigation.”
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Do you wanna bet that those inside the Capitol that are associated with Antifa and BLM will NEVER be known to the Public??
The dictator Democrats and their propaganda media will never admit that it was NOT Trump supporters that broke into the Capitol.
But it was the same leftists who the Democrats supported in the portland and Seattle riots.
To prosecute even just one more Conservative Demonstrator more than those who destroyed our cities all summer long will just bring another round of social destruction and violence. Unequal justice and treatment under the law is exactly what precipitated both cases of social rebellion and if even a small minority of the 74 million Conservative voters see an unequal distribution of the punishment for breaking our of laws, they will only continue to be broken more celeritously and more forcefully on BOTH ends of the Spectrum, which will please our Chinese and Iranian enemies to no ends. A lot of people think Biden and others just do not care because the Chinese now own them. Just watch what happens when THE PEOPLE are politically targeted and the BLM and ANIFA people spend 20 minutes arrested and then released while Conservative flag waving Americans get 20 years hard time? Do you Democrats have a death wish? Or just the wish for the death of America and everything Lady liberty stands for? Proceed at your peril, and make no mistake it will be at YOUR peril as well in a no win situation born overseas and designed to make America weak,, not again ,,but for the very first time.
NOT Only will we never know who they are, but we will NEVER HEAR WHO HELPED them out…
the doj needs to prosecute the politicians and the crooks who rigged the election for that moron biden
while the witch hunt people for being in washington because they are fed up with no representation by a bunch
career billionares who think they are gods on mount olympus.
This is more proof, of why the ENTIRE bloody INJUSTICE dept, needs to have been SCORCHED to the ground, by trump.. NOTHING i see about it, should have been saved. NOT A SINGLE BLOODY IOTA….
Obama, the FBI, Obama’s AG, and the intelligence agencies, should be charged with “sedition” for the Russian collusion hoax against Trump and for trying to overthrow Trump. Hey Steven D’Antuono, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office, why didn’t you arrest Obama and the above mentioned for “sedition”.
NOT just sedition, but TREASON.
THOUGH expecting that to ever happen, stands as much of a chance, as a snowball in hell does.
OK, John Sullivan from Utah was in the building. There are crystal clear photos. He admits to being in the building. He was nearby when the woman was shot in cold blood. He is a KNOWN Antifa and BLM activist. Lock him up for 20 years.
There were other know BLM and Antifa members inside the Capitol. Lock them up too. And lay the same thing on the people who entered and set fire to federal buildings during the summer. No, those people got off with barely a wrist slap and so will BLM/Antifa members who entered the Capitol. Double standard at its finest.
YOU just know EVERYONE that is even remotely affiliated with Antifa, will be given a full pass…
Quite a few members of Congress should be charged with the exact same crime, their entry into the hallowed halls of our government has been under false pretenses in that that their intention is to bring it down and replace it with an oppressive socialist state, the seeds of which are already being sown by the incoming administration and current ‘representatives’ of the people.
It takes months and years to investigate Hunter Biden, Hillary, fake dossiers, and other things that we’ve been waiting forever and a day to see…. yet within a week, they have identified 170 people that they’re actively investigating and prosecuting.
It’s amazing how fast the DOJ can move when it wants to.
Which goes to show, JUST HOW Corrupt and feckless they’ve gotten.
Oh, I didn’t know we had a DOJ!!! They haven’t been in operation for all of Trump’s term. Guess they needed communist Hussein Bozo back in the White House (behind the curtain, you know) to get off their fat ***** and do their job. The fact that it’s “Trump supporters” they’re after must’ve been beyond exhilarating.
They were in operation.. TO OUST him.
Trump should pardon everyone of these protesters. Since it was done in federal grounds, then I think he has the right to pardon everyone of them. I even went to federal government internet site ,then to white house to leave a message for trump. I asked him to pardon with executive order so should everyone.
NOT just them, but pardon Kyle Rittenhouse too!!!!
I haven’t heard anything about prosecutions of people who broke into the Wisconsin state house.
OR who did the CHOP/CHAZ cop free zones in both portland and seattle… BUT LIKE WE ALWAYS say.. Rules only seem to EVER apply to us conservatives, NEVER TO commucrats.