JAKARTA - The United States government has started a criminal investigation into more than 170 people suspected of involvement in the raid on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, January 6. Some of them will be faced with charges of assault and conspiracy to incite violence.
The United States Acting Prosecutor said it would prosecute hundreds of people after the FBI examined more than 100,000 photos and videos of the rioting on January 13.
"The scope and scale of investigating a case like this is unprecedented. Not only in the history of the FBI, but possibly in the history of the Justice Department," he said.
He continued, until now there have been 70 criminal cases filed from the riots on Capitol Hill. In the future, there are hundreds of cases that will be upgraded from investigations to further processing.
Some of these were people whose photos went viral on social media because of their stunts on Capitol Hill. One of them is a man whose photo went viral while sitting at the staff table of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.
"We have seen significant cases of crimes related to incitement and conspiracy. These crimes are completely unprecedented than what we have experienced before," said Sherwin.
It is known, federal law enforcement officials have made a number of arrests against those suspected of being connected to the riots on Capitol Hill. One of them was the arrest of Aaron Mostofsky.
The man, identified by several reports as the son of New York Supreme Court Judge Shlomo Mostofsky, was arrested after a photo of him on Capitol Hill wearing a fur costume appeared in the New York Post.
He was charged with theft of government property, illegal entry, willfully obstructing government activities and disorderly behavior. He was released on $ 100,000 bail after a court hearing in Brooklyn on Tuesday local time. His lawyer, Jeffrey Schwartz, said his client was not part of the rioting mob.
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