According to Bloomberg News, U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves wrote to Beryl Howell, the former chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on October 28th, predicting that the number of individuals facing charges for their involvement in the January 6th Capitol insurrection could double, with between 700 and 1,200 more individuals potentially facing charges. However, Graves acknowledged the complexity of the investigation and the difficulty in predicting future cases with certainty, as changing resources and circumstances may require adjustments to the estimates.
Graves noted that his office expected the pace of new cases to increase in an orderly fashion over the next few months, but recent events, such as the airing of security footage from the Capitol by Fox News host Tucker Carlson and the Republican investigation into the January 6 Committee, may impact the ongoing cases. Despite the increased criminal caseload, the court has managed its caseload and trial calendar efficiently, and Howell stated that the court would assess what additional steps, if any, it should take in the event of a surge in filings at a later date.
Since the Capitol insurrection, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has made over 1,000 arrests, with over 500 defendants pleading guilty, including four to a federal charge of seditious conspiracy. Special counsel Jack Smith is investigating former President Donald Trump on two fronts, related to his efforts challenging the 2020 election results and the events of January 6th.
U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves commented on the prosecutions, saying:
“We expect the pace of bringing new cases will increase, in an orderly fashion, over the course of the next few months,”
Still, Graves conceded the “complexity” of the investigation made it “incredibly difficult” to predict future cases and left room for tweaking the estimates as his office works to “evaluate changing resources and circumstances.”
At the time Graves sent the letter, the Justice Department reportedly closed in on its 900th arrest.
Howell, whose term as Chief Judge is set to end this week, released a statement saying the court:
“…continues to manage its caseload and trial calendar efficiently, notwithstanding the delays occasioned by the pandemic.”
“So far, the court has been able to manage the increased criminal caseload well,”
“Should a ‘surge’ of filings occur at a later date, the Court would assess what additional steps, if any, it should take.”
Over the past two years, more than 1,000 arrests have been made by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, and more than 500 defendants have pleaded guilty, including four to a federal charge of seditious conspiracy. Special counsel Jack Smith is currently investigating former President Donald Trump on two fronts, including in relation to efforts challenging the 2020 election results and the events of January 6.
Ludicrous
The Jan 6 commission should be charge with being stupid
This “news” site is still referring to the J6th riot as an insurrection. With all the new evidence coming out it is more and more apparent that there was no insurrection. So quite using that word.
Aw, Jeez, here we go again. We get to read about the January 6 INSURRECTION. Offered to us by someone who doesn’t know ehat an insurrection is. Please, go find a book, and try to look up the ACTUAL definition of an insurrection, huh?
Only for those that did violence & said video that day, all else FREE
THIS DOJ GOING AFTER JAN 6PROTESTERS IS BULLSHIT, WHAT ABOUT ANTIFA AND THE RIOTS, LOOTING AND B URNING. DEMOCRAPS ARE SHITBAG SCUM OF THE EARTH
NOT with new videos alone
Free some
Wouldn’t expect anything less from OBiden’s Gestapo AG Garland and his jack boot thugs. They don’t believe in justice only revenge,intimidation and control. No respect for the rule of law just their totalitarian agenda. FJB
Political prisoners. We have become Communist China! One protester enters Capitol, told to leave by police, he walks out of the building and is charged, and faces one year in prison. Muslim terrorists are treated better.
Stop calling these people insurrectionists. It was a protest. The only rioters at the capital were members of ANTIFA and FBI infiltrators. There’s been so many lies and fabrications by the Democrats that the average American citizen can’t tell up from down. I have to hand it to the Pelosi-schiff cartel. They are the absolute best at what they do……lie and set up traps for their opponents.
NO COMMENT.
The DOJ is the shining example of “government weaponized against the people.” I would like to see this agency abolished. It has become nothing more than a partisan police organization.
Hopefully they are all the Democrats who lied about it.
It is totally incomprehensible to believe that they would charge this many people given what Americans now know thanks to the releasing of videos from Jan. 6th. It just seems like it doesn’t matter, right or wrong. The left knows “nothing” but going “double down” on this stuff. Talk about a group of people that absolutely refuse to examine the facts, especially if those facts prove them wrong.
Let’s see how many they can scare into pleading guilty by piling on B.S. charges. Probably wl change them with loitering. Although with the release f the videos they may have a harder time railroading people.
Remind me not to visit Washington D.C.
They have a lot of nerve doing this to folks who took a stroll through the capital while police waved them inside. The people were not in the building long at all. It was such a nothing-burger that congress resumed deliberations there a few hours later. Meanwhile the country was burned down by BLM in 2020, billions in damage and many Police officers injured, but they did NOTHING about that. Why haven’t their lawyers requested a change of venue?? There is no way they can get a fair trial in highly partisan and low I Q Washington DC.
Stalin would be so proud of our corrupt DOJ. Why doesn’t this Department of Jokes do something productive like investigate rampant voter fraud, Dominion’s corrupt software, Maricpoa County’s tainted vote counting, Slow Joe’s traitorous actions against the prosecutor investigating his criminal son Hunter? And on, and on, and on.
When can we start charging all the rioters in Oregon and Washington that burned, destroyed and damaged their cities, not to mention injury to citizens and law enforcement?