DOJ: No Criminal Charges For Meadows And Scavino

The New York Times reports:

“Based on the individual facts and circumstances of their alleged contempt, my office will not be initiating prosecutions for criminal contempt as requested in the referral against Messrs. Meadows and Scavino,” Matthew M. Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, wrote to Douglas N. Letter, the general counsel of the House, on Friday.

“My office’s review of each of the contempt referrals arising from the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation is complete.”

Both Mr. Meadows and Mr. Scavino — who were deeply involved in the effort to overturn the 2020 election — engaged in weeks of negotiations with the committee’s lawyers, and Mr. Meadows turned over more than 9,000 documents to the panel, before the House voted to charge them with contempt.

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Breaking News: The Justice Department declined to charge Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino, two former Trump aides, for stonewalling the Jan. 6 inquiry. https://t.co/EWblVEZLli

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