Peter Navarro, a high former White Home adviser to Donald Trump, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Friday on two counts of contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena issued by the Home choose committee investigating the January 6 Capitol assault.
The justice division mentioned in a information launch that Navarro was indicted with one depend for refusing to seem at a deposition and one other for refusing to show over paperwork as required by the panel’s subpoena.
Navarro’s indictment, the division mentioned, was unsealed a day after it was returned by a federal grand jury in Washington that acted on a contempt referral made by the Home of Representatives after he declined to cooperate with the January 6 inquiry.
The justice division informed the Guardian that Navarro is anticipated to seem earlier than Justice of the Peace Decide Zia Faruqui within the US district courtroom for the District of Columbia within the early afternoon on Friday.
Navarro didn’t reply to a request for remark.
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