“I understand that they want have access our work product, and we told them, “No, we’re not giving it to anyone,” Thompson said. The Committee may allow investigators review records in office committee, he said.
Justice Department prosecuting hundreds of in men and women who allegedly invaded the Capitol in an attempt to demand that Congress will cancel Joe Biden’s election victory. federal prosecutors also recently expanded their investigation to include who planned and financed rallies in support of President Donald Trump, who preceded the riots. And in Georgia, local district attorney opened criminal investigation into Trump’s attempts to influence the election results in this is a state.
New York Times first reported on Tuesday that the Department of Justice sent a letter last month of search access to transcripts of interviews conducted by a committee of the House of Representatives. The request was open and it wasn’t clear how lot of the committee material The Department of Justice wants a review, said an acquaintance with situation who said on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation.
Such a request is unusual. in that the Justice Department and the House committee largely avoided coordinating their separate lines of investigation. But with in criminal do a good job of investigating second year and a congressional investigation is expected to end down in coming weeks or months prosecutors want to review the committee key certificate.
This hard to know how Interview transcripts may be helpful, given that the DOJ and the FBI have hosts. of investigative tools and the methods at their disposal that Congress does not have.
But the House committee has taken aggressive action to get people to cooperate. with its investigation and more over 1000 interviews, including detailed testimonies from some assistants who were close to Trump when he was president.
The House of Representatives asked the Department of Justice to initiate criminal proceedings against several former Trump aides with contempt for non-cooperation with committee request.
As part of expansion of the justice department of his probe, federal grand jury in Washington sent requests to the court to some officials in Trump Orbit who helped in planning, financing and execution rallies on and just until January 6th.
