Justice Department preps plea deals for Capitol rioters tied to assault on Officer Michael Fanone
CNN
The Justice Department is preparing to offer a plea deal to three US Capitol rioters accused of participating in the grisly assault on Officer Michael Fanone, prosecutors said Friday.
At three separate hearings, federal prosecutors said they've already had preliminary plea talks with defense attorneys, and they plan to extend formal plea offers in the next few weeks. "We hope to have one by the end of the month," prosecutor Cara Gardner said at a hearing for Albuquerque Head, a Tennessee man who has been charged with 10 federal crimes stemming from the Capitol insurrection. He has pleaded not guilty and has been in jail since his arrest.President Joe Biden on Sunday delivers his first commencement address of the 2024 season at Morehouse College, where the president may for the first time in months have to confront the angst that’s been percolating on college campuses nationwide toward his administration’s policies on the Israel-Hamas war.
Arab and Palestinian Americans left a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday night frustrated they did not have a clear understanding of how the Biden administration might act upon their concerns as the Israel-Hamas war devastates the civilian population in Gaza, participants told CNN.