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House Jan. 6 investigator said DOJ could charge 4 Trump allies - Business Insider

  • The top investigator for the House Jan. 6 committee spoke to The New York Times in a story out Sunday.
  • Timothy Heaphy said it's up to the DOJ to keep investigating and "get answers that we didn't get."
  • He said Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman, and Jeffery Clark could also face charges.

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The top staff investigator for the House committee that probed the January 6 Capitol riot said the Justice Department could charge several allies of former President Donald Trump.

"I think you could look at [Rudolph] Giuliani, and Mark Meadows. I think that the Justice Department has to look very closely at whether there was an agreement or conspiracy," Timothy Heaphy told The New York Times in an interview published on Sunday.

Heaphy added that the DOJ could also pursue charges against lawyer John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark.

"A criminal grand jury investigation arguably overrules or takes precedence over an attorney-client privilege assertion or executive privilege. The grand jury may be able to get answers that we didn't get, and I hope that they do," he told The Times.

"How broad the conspiracy...



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