Former Trump appointee found guilty in Jan. 6 attack on police
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Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they try to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Photo: Brent Stirton/Getty Images
A former Trump-appointed State Department official was found guilty Thursday over a Jan. 6 assault on police during the U.S. Capitol riot, per multiple reports.
Driving the news: U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden convicted Federico Klein, who also worked on Trump's 2016 campaign, after prosecutors alleged surveillance showed him trying to breach a police line to enter a Capitol tunnel with a mob of rioters.
- The Trump-appointed judge convicted Klein, who was 42 years old at the time of his arrest in March 2021, without a jury of 12 counts — including assaulting, resisting or impeding officers.
The big picture: McFadden also convicted co-defendant Steven Cappuccio of six felony counts, but found him not guilty of the obstruction charge and a misdemeanor as the judge determined that he "was not politically savvy enough to intend to stop the electoral vote count," per the Washington Post.
- Christopher Joseph Quaglin, another co-defendant, was last week found guilty of 14 charges for his role in the Capitol riot after a trial in which the 37-year-old fome North Brunswick, New Jersey, and the government "agreed upon a stipulated set of facts regarding his conduct," per a Justice Department statement.
What's next: Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 26 for Quaglin, Oct. 19 for Cappuccio and Nov. 3 for Klein.
