Secret Service
The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attack has subpoenaed the Secret Service for text messages agents reportedly deleted around Jan. 6, 2021.
The erasure of the messages is sure to raise new questions for the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Harvey decided that he would release the men, subjecting them to supervision that includes GPS monitoring.
Prosecutors allege that two men had a vast array of firearms and surveillance equipment, and were known to their neighbors as DHS officers.
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Federal prosecutors said the men falsely claimed to work for the Department of Homeland Security to integrate with actual federal agents.
The amount represents 3% of the $3.4 trillion dispersed for COVID relief.
The most jaw-dropping cost was $52,000 spent to guard former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a multimillionaire, on a June business trip to Israel.
Trump reportedly asked if "Mike" was OK while praising insurrectionists and ripping Pence for lacking the "courage" to overturn the presidential election.
The Secret Service paid more than $10,000 at his Bedminster resort in New Jersey for 18 days in May, reveals The Washington Post.
More than half of the infected agents worked in the special agent division, which is responsible for protecting the president and vice president.