Justice Department strips Jan. 6 references from court paper and punishes prosecutors who filed it
Earlier DU threads:
• DOJ puts 2 prosecutors on leave after they sought prison sentence for pardoned Jan. 6 rioter in separate case.
• Prosecutors placed on leave hours after describing Jan. 6 attack as a 'mob of rioters'
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Justice Department strips Jan. 6 references from court paper and punishes prosecutors who filed it
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Updated 4:17 PM EDT, October 30, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has stripped references to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack from court papers and punished two federal prosecutors who filed the document seeking prison time at sentencing Thursday for a man arrested with guns and ammunition near former President Barack Obama’s home.
The prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office in the District of Columbia were locked out of their government devices and told they were being put on leave Wednesday morning shortly after they filed a sentencing memorandum describing the crowd of President Donald Trump supporters who attacked the Capitol as a “mob of rioters,” according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss personnel issues.
Later Wednesday, the Justice Department replaced the court filing with an updated version that stripped references to the Jan. 6 riot. The new filing also no longer included a reference to the fact that Trump posted on social media what he claimed was Obama’s address on the same day that the defendant, Taylor Taranto, was arrested in the former president’s neighborhood.
It’s the latest move by the Justice Department to discipline attorneys tied to the massive Jan. 6 prosecution and represents an extraordinary effort by the government to erase the history of the riot that left more than 100 police officers injured.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-january-6-trump-taylor-taranto-65788cf56fe242f8948805f93131753a
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