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The House select committee investigating the insurrection at the US Capitol plans to vote Monday night on criminal referrals for two former rump advisers who have NOT cooperated with their investigation.The votes on the rump White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino and the rump's onetime trade adviser, Peter Navarro, come after the committee filed reports Sunday nightoutlining the ways in which both men evaded investigators.
The panel claims it granted Scavino six extensions of his deadline to sit for an interview and hand over documents and noted that several of the issues Navarro said he could not discuss he had previously written about in his book.
The committee is expected to advance the contempt report Monday evening during a public business meeting. The referral would then go to the full House for a vote, where it would then be sent to the Department of Justice, which will decide if there is enough evidence to prosecute.
The committee has advanced three previous criminal referrals.
The first, was for former rump adviser Steve Bannon, was picked up by DOJ and has led to an indictment of Bannon. He faces a criminal trial this summer.
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Members of the House select committee investigating the insurrection at the US Capitol voiced their frustration with Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice on Monday, as they voted unanimously to recommend two former advisers to former President Donald rump be referred to the department on criminal contempt of Congress charges.
The message to Garland and DOJ, which has still not saidwhether it will pursue criminal charges against former rump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for defying a congressional subpoena, was clear: Do your job.
"This committee is doing its job. The Department of Justice needs to do theirs," committee member Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, said during Monday's business meeting.
The panel voted to recommend rump White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino and rump's onetime trade adviser, Peter Navarro, for criminal contempt charges for their refusal to cooperate with the committee's investigation or appear for a scheduled deposition.
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The House vote was 220-203. Just two Republicans -- Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois -- voted for the resolution. The pair also serve on the January 6 committee.
"Both of these men have refused to comply with the Select Committee's subpoenas in any way," Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, who chairs the committee, testified in front of the House Rules Committee on Monday.
Now that the referrals have passed out of the House, they will be sent to the Department of Justice, which will decide if there is enough evidence to prosecute.
The committee has advanced three previous criminal referrals. The first referral from the House, for former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, was picked up by the Justice Department and has led to an indictment of Bannon. He faces a criminal trial this summer.
The Justice Department is still reviewing the contempt referral of former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, which the full House voted on in December. Scavino was initially subpoenaed at the same time as Bannon and Meadows.
A third contempt referral, for former DOJ staffer Jeffrey Clark, was voted out of committee but did not make it to the House floor after Clark agreed to meet with the committee. Clark sat for an interview but pleaded the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times.
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