1/6 Insurrection Investigation

[Rick Plant]

Judge rejects change-of-venue request by Jan 6 defendant Riley Williams, who is accused of directing people amid the mob at Capitol (Williams wanted to move case to her home area of Pennsylvania)

(Judge adds interesting footnote: There 599,237 people in prospective DC jury pool)

[Rick Plant]

WATCH: Every Jan. 6 committee hearing, explained

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol talked to over a thousand witnesses and gathered more than 140,000 documents in its year plus investigation. In the summer of 2022, the committee held eight public hearings where they questioned witnesses, shared videos and laid out the groundwork for the role that President Donald Trump and some of his allies played in the Capitol attack. In this video, PBS NewsHour reporters highlight the key moments from each of the eight public hearings and what they could mean for future prosecution and public understanding.

0:00        Day 1
6:49        Day 2
11:42      Day 3
24:24      Day 4
37:37      Day 5
48:14      Day 6
1:01:55   Day 7
1:14:53   Day 8

[Rick Plant]

News Wrap: Pompeo meets with the Jan. 6 committee

Watch: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-pompeo-meets-with-the-jan-6-committee

[Rick Plant]

Plea agreement hearing is set for this hour in Jan 6 case of Steven Billingsley of Ohio.  Feds allege Billingsley was amid mob saying "We're gonna tear this place down." And screamed "Push!" at other rioters who were well in front of him and confronting line of police officers.

US Justice Dept signed plea deal with Billingsley also says he "walked over additional barricades strewn on the plaza ground yelling “This is our house.” He exhorted others in the plaza, “They can’t stop us in numbers, remember that. This is war.”

[Rick Plant]

'We're Following All Leads': Jan. 6 Member On Alex Jones' Texts Turned Over To Committee

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., discusses texts messages from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones turned over to the January 6 committee as well as the Inflation Reduction Act.

Watch:

[Rick Plant]

Sentencing set for October in Capitol riot case of Matthew Bledsoe, who was convicted in less than four hours on all five federal counts by a DC jury

Bledsoe was accused of climbing statue in Rotunda and yelling "Our house. We pay for this s---. Where’s those pieces of s---at?”.

[Rick Plant]

Justice Department subpoenas Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann

He's the latest onetime top aide to the former president to receive a summons from a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 attack.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/15/justice-department-subpoenas-trump-lawyer-eric-herschmann-00051899

[Rick Plant]

QAnon follower who showed up armed at Philly ballot counting location found in Jan. 6 photos at the Capitol



A QAnon conspiracy theorist who was arrested when he showed up at a Philadelphia ballot counting location with guns has been spotted in footage of the Jan. 6 attack on Congress.

NBC News cited the FBI affidavit saying Antonio LaMotta was arrested in Chesapeake, Virginia on Tuesday and charged with four misdemeanor statutes: "entering and remaining in a restricted building, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading in a Capitol building."

LaMotta went to the Philadelphia Convention center in Nov. 2020, driving a silver Hummer with a QAnon sticker on the back. He and friend Joshua Macias were carrying weapons and the car was filled with ammunition. It wasn't until Oct. 2021, however, that HuffPost reported that LaMotta was also the man spotted on Capitol surveillance footage on Jan. 6.

Both men await trial in Philadelphia for the crimes there and LaMotta hasn't been released to Washington to stand trial for his involvement in Jan. 6.

The FBI found that he also posted on social media about his actions.

The Bureau, "which has received an influx of threats since the search of Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago last week, has the names of hundreds of additional Capitol attack participants who have not been arrested, but special agents, federal prosecutors and the court system are overwhelmed by the volume of cases related to Jan. 6," the report also said.

https://www.rawstory.com/january-6-antonio-lamotta/