As the House Select Committee continues its widening investigation into the Jan 6 attack on the US Capitol, a close associate of former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani is reportedly planning to release a stash of documents requested by House investigators, CNN reports.
According to the news network, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who joined Giuliani’s quest to find evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election in order to keep Donald Trump in power, has agreed to cooperate with the Jan 6 Panel’s probe into the deadly Riot at the US Capitol that day.
As noted by CNN, the committee subpoenaed Kerik in November alleging that “he had attended a meeting at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, on January 5 in which Giuliani; former Trump adviser Steve Bannon; John Eastman, an attorney who worked with Trump’s legal team; and others discussed options for overturning the election results, such as pressuring then-Vice President Mike Pence not to certify the Electoral College results, among other things.”
Lawmakers wanted Kerik to appear for a closed-door deposition on January 13. But his defense attorney, Timothy Parlatore, said that Kerik “very much wants to cooperate” with the investigation but will only do so publicly, and plans to release “documents which are not privileged” to the committee by the end of next week. He intends to post the documents on a public website, according to CNN.
