BREAKING: The US Department of Justice issues 40 subpoenas and seizes the phones of two Trump administration officials as part of an investigation into his attempt to nullify the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 Capitol riots
- The Justice Department has issued 40 subpoenas seeking information about the actions of former President Trump and his associates.
- Subpoenas in connection with the 2020 election and the January 6 attack on Capitol Hill
- Boris Epshteyn and Mike Roman, both Trump advisers, had their phones confiscated
- The Justice Department also reached out to Dan Scavino, Trump’s former social media director.
- Bernard Kerik, a former New York police commissioner who promoted unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud, was also subpoenaed by prosecutors.
The Justice Department has issued 40 subpoenas seeking information about the actions of former President Donald J. Trump and his associates in connection with the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 attack on Capitol Hill.
Boris Epshteyn and Mike Roman, both Trump advisers, had their phones confiscated as evidence, the New York Times reports.
The action represents a kind of escalation in the investigation that comes just two months before the midterm elections, after several months of relative calm.
The Jan. 6 investigation coincides with a separate investigation into Trump’s storage of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home.
Donald Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn arrives at Trump Tower in Manhattan in 2016, left, Mike Roman, who was a Trump campaign strategist, had his cell phone confiscated.
Boris Epshteyn, right, was an adviser to President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign. The Justice Department seized his phone.
The Department of Justice has issued 40 subpoenas seeking information on the actions of former President Donald J. Trump and his associates in connection with the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 attack on Capitol Hill.
Other names the Justice Department has been in contact with who are close to the former president include Dan Scavino, Trump’s former social media director.
Scavino began working for Trump at one of his golf courses and rose through the ranks to become one of his most loyal aides. He remains a Trump adviser.
The Times reports how the Justice Department executed search warrants to seize electronic devices from people involved in the “fake voter effort” who lived in swing states, including Epshteyn and Roman, who was a Trump campaign strategist.
Federal agents seized the pair of advisers’ electronic devices last week.
Bernard Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner who promoted unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud along with his friend, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, was also subpoenaed by prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington. .
Other names the Justice Department has been in contact with who are close to the former president include Dan Scavino, Trump’s former social media director, pictured here last week at a Trump rally.
Bernard Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner, was also subpoenaed by prosecutors from the US attorney’s office in Washington.
This is a developing story with more details to come…
