AP Photo/John Minchillo A former government official who worked for an unnamed agency has been charged with falsely accusing seven colleagues of participating in the January 6 riot.
Investigators say Miguel Zapata used “burner emails” to submit false tips to an FBI tipline about seven ex-colleagues, causing the FBI to interview and investigate several of them. Investigators discovered that most of the subjects weren’t in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, and were working in their offices during the hours of the attack.
Prosecutions resulting in tips from the FBI tipline have netted more than 1,300 people who allegedly took part in the riot on January 6.
Zapata’s first tip, submitted on Feb. 10, 2021, alleged that a former co-worker was “trying to overthrow the U.S. government, espouses conspiracy theories and retaliates against colleagues who don’t share their political views,” according to the Washington Post. Another tip accused a government contractor of sharing […]
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