A group of democrats asks the Ministry of Justice to help prevent compensation for convicts on taxpayers in the Capitol Capitols of the United States for fines ordered by the court.
Federal judges ordered hundreds of riots to pay for restitution in order to compensate for the estimated 3 million US dollars in the form of losses and cleaning costs as a result of the attack of 2021. According to the CBS News review, only 15% of the costs were reimbursed on January 6. But a few hours after returning to the post, President Trump pardoned everyone who was convicted as part of the rebellion.
In a letter from Monday and received by CBS News, the leading democrats according to the Rules of the Senate and the judicial committees of the Senate asked the Ministry of Justice to confront payment efforts convicted in riots on January 6, 2021.
“These criminals, apparently, require compensation for the taxpayer not only for the return of the restoration court in order to cover the damage that they caused the Capitol building, but also to compensate them for the need to encounter legal consequences for their actions,” the letter says.
The CBS News review on the submission of court documents of some of the more than 1,500 pardoned accused in the Capitol riot shows the growing number of official requests for compensation for the payment of federal courts.
IN request Submitted to the DC federal judge on Monday, the defendant to combat the riot Richard Barnett glorified the pardon of Trump and Barnett's appeal about his condemnation as part of the acquittal in the amount of $ 2,455 in the field of restoration and court payments. The Barnett argument, partially, quoted the previous cases accused by pardon.
It stated that the decision of the Ministry of Justice in February to free his case “wipes the clearance of shale and restores the defendant both the presumption of innocence and the right to pay for money based on degrease condemnation”.
Barnett was found guilty of Washington, the district of Colombia, a large jury in 2023, after the prosecutors successfully argued that he was on the front edge of the crowd and was photographed with his feet on the table in the office of the then speaker-domino Nancy Pelosi, the California democrat.
Last month, the District Judge John Bates ordered to reimburse the payments of restoration on January 6. Defendant Ivonn Saint -Sir, who was found guilty Difficulties in law enforcement agencies and other crimes within the framework of the rebellion of the Capitol.
Bates ordered the US Treasury to pay the defendant $ 2,270. The judge noted that Saint -Sir was in the process of appealing her case when Mr. Trump returned to the position, and the court of appeal switched to the exemption of his conviction, because she received a pardon from the president, so there was no condemnation in the eyes of the law. ”
15-page order Bates Opened“Sometimes the judge is designed to do what requires the law, even if it may seem contradictory with what may require justice or first instincts. This is one of these cases. ”
According to court applications considered by CBS News, the Ministry of Justice supported St. Sir's request for repayment. In August, they stated that the application submitted by an American lawyer at DC Jeanine Pirro said that the conviction was “invalid” when DC District canceled it. “
But in a particular case, the U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss rejected the request for compensation for the convicted participant of the Capitol Riot Hector Vargas Santos. At the Ministry of Justice He supported his requestField
A letter of democrats senators to the Ministry of Justice, led by Senator Alex Padalen from California, who is the deputy chairman of the Committee on the Rules of the Senate, said that payment efforts are part of the wider efforts to rewrite the history of the Capitol uprising. The letter called this “an attempt to rewrite history and draw yourself as sympathetic sacrifices.”
“The improper use of taxpayers for the financial remuneration of these restorers, because they were held accountable and convicted of their violent and destructive actions is unthinkable,” the letter says.
The Ministry of Justice confirmed CBS News that it received a letter, but did not comment.
