The federal prosecutor whose office is pursuing participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol says there is no end in sight to perhaps the most sprawling criminal investigation in Justice Department history.
“We’re certainly not at the end in terms of charges,” Matthew M. Graves, who was sworn in Nov. 5 as U.S. attorney for the District, said in an interview with The Washington Post. “The million-dollar question is: How close are we to the end?”
Congress could reach an omnibus spending deal soon that would allow the U.S. attorney’s office to hire more people “who would work exclusively” on Jan. 6 cases in a reorganized, stand-alone “Capitol siege section,” Graves said. Graves, 46, said that as a prosecutor in the office for nine years, beginning in 2007 in Superior Court, he witnessed effective strategies for combating violence in city neighborhoods, including targeting “the handful of individuals” who cause a disproportionate amount of crime.
“That does not come without costs, both federal dollar costs ... and also the cost in time, because we’re going to independent labs, and frankly there aren’t that many of them,” Graves said.
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