Interim US Attorney for DC Edward Martin Jr orders internal review of office’s handling of J6 cases | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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“Obviously, the use was a great failure of our office … and we need to get to the bottom of it.”
Interim US attorney for Washington, DC Edward R. Martin Jr. has requested that two top prosecutors in his office conduct an internal review of the department’s handling of Capitol riot cases.
A Monday email to staff, obtained by the Washington Post, stated that Martin had appointed Chief of the Criminal Division Denise Cheung, and Chief of the Fraud, Public Corruption and Civil Rights section Denise Cheung to lead a “special project” investigating the over 250 cases in which the office had charged over 250 people with obstructing an official proceeding of Congress. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the statute was too broadly applied to the cases.
Martin wrote in the email, “Obviously, the use was a great failure of our office … and we need to get to the bottom of it.” Martin expects a preliminary report by Friday. “Please deliver to Jonathan and/or Denise all information you have related to the use of 1512 charges including all files, documents, notes, emails and other information.” The 1512 number refers to the obstruction statute’s section number in the federal code, the outlet reported.