Texan Kellye SoRelle, lawyer for Oath Keepers, is charged in Jan. 6 attack

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Kellye SoRelle, a Texas legal professional for the far-right militia group the Oath Keepers, has been indicted on 4 counts associated to the Jan. 6 revolt on the U.S. Capitol, in accordance with courtroom paperwork.

Federal prosecutors in half allege SoRelle destroyed and hid potential proof to impede the legal investigation into the Capitol attack, indicting her on a cost of tampering with paperwork. She is additionally charged with conspiracy to impede and obstruction of Congress’ certification of President Joe Biden’s win throughout the 2020 elections, in addition to being contained in the Capitol throughout the revolt.

SoRelle, a Granbury legal professional who unsuccessfully ran to characterize Texas House District 60 in the 2020 Republican main, was with the Oath Keepers’ founder, Stewart Rhodes, exterior the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in accordance with The Washington Post. The lawyer was arrested in Junction by the FBI on Thursday morning, in accordance with a number of news studies.

In May, SoRelle told CNN she was cooperating with the U.S. Department of Justice in the investigation, together with handing over her cellphone to investigators. SoRelle doesn’t characterize any Oath Keepers in their legal proceedings, CNN reported.

She is certainly one of greater than 70 Texans who’ve been charged for their roles in the Jan. 6 revolt, in accordance with a USA Today database. One Texan, who prosecutors stated “lit the match” of the Jan. 6 revolt, was sentenced to 7 1/4 years in jail final month, tied for the longest sentence of any rioter so far.

North Texas has been a focal space for the investigation into the riot, with greater than a dozen space residents having been charged in the federal investigation.

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