Acting US Attorney for DC, Ed Martin, is investigating former US Attorney Matthew Graves.
The focus? January 6 prosecutions.
Specifically, misuse of an obstruction charge.
Martin called it a “great failure.”
He ordered all related documents delivered immediately.
The preliminary report is due Friday.
Graves resigned last month after backlash, but resigning doesn’t get you off the hot seat.
He targeted non-violent protestors and pushed for harsher sentences if the Supreme Court overturned the charge.
In June, the Supreme Court struck it down.
Now, Martin is taking a closer look.
And it looks like Biden’s DOJ is getting a lesson in accountability. This should get really interesting.
🚨 JUST ANNOUNCED: Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Ed Martin is officially reviewing the DOJ’s handling of Jan. 6 cases
Martin is demanding records, emails, and notes tied to felony obstruction charges.
This could be the beginning of a massive shake-up. Accountability is… pic.twitter.com/k9NKwX0Rjy
— Hank ™ (@HANKonX) January 27, 2025
The tide has turned and justice is coming.
SCOOP: New DC US Attorney Ed Martin has opened an inquiry into the DOJ's unlawful use of 1512c2, the post-Enron obstruction statute filed against 300+ J6ers. Martin called the use of 1512c2 a "great failure" of the office and directed staff to immediately deliver "all files,…
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) January 27, 2025
ABC News reports:
The acting U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., has initiated a “review” into the office’s prosecutions of the more than 1500 rioters charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, multiple sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News on Monday.
Ed Martin, a promoter of President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign who was himself seen on Capitol grounds during the riot, has ordered prosecutors in the office to turn over all records related to their work on the cases.
NBC News adds:
Martin wrote Monday that the two officials he selected would need to issue a preliminary report by Friday, and he asked all employees to pass along “all files, documents, notes, emails and other information” about the use of 18 U.S. Code 1512, which prosecutors often refer to as the “1512” charge. Martin referred to the review as “Project 1512” and called it “important work.”
“Obviously, the use was a great failure of our office — [Supreme Court] decision — and we need to get to the bottom of it,” Martin wrote in an email obtained by NBC News that also reminded U.S. attorney’s office workers of the hiring freeze and the Trump administration’s steps ending “all DEI efforts.”
Before he joined the Trump administration, Martin was a “Stop the Steal” advocate who spoke at the Capitol on Jan. 5 and was on the Capitol grounds during the Jan. 6 riot. He also was on the board of the Patriot Freedom Project, which advocated for Jan. 6 defendants and held fundraisers at Trump’s properties.
Martin has shown that he’s great at digging deep in his research.
I can only imagine what he’ll find while going after the previous DOJ.
"Why can't the FBI tell us who did this?"
Defense attorney and @realpfp board member Ed Martin joins John Solomon and Amanda Head on Just The News No Noise with new footage from the morning of January 6th, 2021 saying four men were caught on camera setting a hangman's gallows… pic.twitter.com/GRleWJ7zTX
— Real America's Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) November 15, 2023
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