联邦调查局周四表示,已逮捕前总统之一费德里科·克莱因唐纳德·特朗普的被任命为美国国务院的官员,因为他被指控在1月6日起义在美国国会大厦。
美国联邦调查局(FBI)华盛顿特区办事处的一名发言人表示,42岁的克莱因被弗吉尼亚州的联邦特工带走。美国广播公司(ABC News)获得的法庭文件显示,克莱因被指控在2011年袭击联邦执法人员。致命的暴乱今年早些时候。
克莱因是特朗普政府中第一个因1月6日亲特朗普的暴徒袭击国会大厦而面临刑事指控的已知成员。
美国广播公司新闻无法立即联系到克莱因置评。
联邦调查局
联邦调查局逮捕了费德里科·克莱因,指控他参与了1月6日华盛顿美国国会大厦的暴乱
周二在华盛顿特区联邦地区法院提交的指控文件指控克莱因参与了当天当局与寻求国会大厦下西露台入口的暴徒之间最暴力的互动之一。调查人员表示,执法机构佩戴的摄像头据称捕捉到了克莱恩“暴力推搡防暴盾牌,试图阻止暴徒进入大楼的官员,防暴盾牌显然是从一名官员那里拿走的。”
大都会警察局/联邦调查局
联邦调查局已经逮捕了费德里科·克莱因,他出现在这张来自警察身体摄像录像的照片中
调查人员说,根据法院文件,克莱因涉嫌“将防暴盾牌推到国会大厦的门之间,阻止官员关门”。
调查人员表示,社交媒体上发布的其他视频据称显示,克莱恩“煽动暴徒,试图突破下西露台隧道的警戒线,进入国会大厦。”根据法院文件,在一次骚乱中,一群暴徒袭击并与当局搏斗,调查人员说,据称克莱因在视频中被多次捕捉到,“向他身后的人群喊,‘我们需要新鲜人,我们需要新鲜人’”。
大都会警察局/联邦调查局
联邦调查局已经逮捕了费德里科·克莱因,他出现在这张来自警察身体摄像录像的照片中
调查人员还表示,当执法部门最终将暴徒推出下西露台隧道,并发现一名警察被拖进人群时,冲过去找回受伤同事的警察遇到了克莱恩,克莱恩被告知要离开时,据称他回应道:“没门。”
后来,根据法庭文件,克莱因据称被拍到帮助这名官员返回隧道。
罗伯特·施密特/法新社,通过盖蒂图像
(档案)在这张摄于2021年1月6日的档案照片中,特朗普的支持者与警察和保安发生冲突
1月20日,联邦调查局发布公告,显示据称在1月6日非法进入国会大厦并袭击执法人员的个人。这份名单包括克莱因,他被冠以“136-AFO”的绰号联邦调查局随后收到了一个人的线报,他说136-AFO是克莱恩。根据法院文件,线人告诉联邦调查局,克莱因是他们的邻居,“表现出极端行为,包括在他们的车上展示关于拜登总统、哈里斯副总统、黑人的命也是命运动和‘反法西斯’运动的煽动性言论”。
调查人员确定,克莱因在1月19日乔·拜登总统就职前一天辞职之前,一直是美国国务院的雇员。根据法庭文件,克莱因还拥有绝密的安全许可。
截至去年夏天,克莱因自2017年1月以来一直在美国国务院西半球事务局担任特别助理,并被指定为“附表C”政治任命者。据报道,他之前还在特朗普的2016年总统竞选中担任技术分析师政治首先报道了他被捕的消息。
1月6日,一群支持特朗普的暴徒闯入国会大厦,试图阻止国会认证2020年总统选举,但没有成功,导致包括一名警察在内的五人死亡。
FBI arrests former Trump appointee Federico Klein in connection with Capitol riot
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Thursday that it has arrested Federico Klein, one of former PresidentDonald Trump'sappointees to the U.S. Department of State, for his alleged role in theJan. 6 insurrectionat the U.S. Capitol.
Klein, 42, was picked up by federal agents in Virginia, according to a spokesperson for the FBI's field office in Washington, D.C. Court documents obtained by ABC News show Klein has been charged with assaulting federal law enforcement personnel during thedeadly riotearlier this year.
Klein is the first known member of the Trump administration to face criminal charges in connection with the storming of the Capitol building by a pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6.
ABC News was unable to immediately reach Klein for comment.
Charging documents filed Tuesday in federal district court in Washington, D.C., accuse Klein of taking part in one of the day's most violent interactions between authorities and the mob seeking entrance at the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol building. Investigators said law enforcement body-worn cameras purportedly captured Klein as he "violently shoved a riot shield that apparently had been taken from an officer, towards the officers trying to stop the mob from gaining access to the building."
Investigators said Klein allegedly "pushed the riot shield in between the doors to the Capitol, preventing officers from closing the doors," according to the court documents.
Investigators said other videos posted on social media purportedly show Klein "inciting the mob and trying to break through the police line in the Lower West Terrace tunnel and into the Capitol building." In one instance, as a crowd of rioters assaulted and struggled with authorities, investigators said Klein was purportedly captured on video repeatedly "calling back to the crowd behind him, 'We need fresh people, we need fresh people,'" according to the court documents.
Investigators also said that, when law enforcement had finally pushed rioters out of the Lower West Terrace tunnel and discovered an officer had been dragged into the crowd, the officers who rushed to retrieve their injured colleague encountered Klein who, when he was told to move, allegedly responded, "No way."
Later, Klein was purportedly captured on video appearing to help the officer make his way back toward the tunnel, according to the court documents.
On Jan. 20, the FBI posted a bulletin showing individuals who it said had made unlawful entry into the Capitol building and assaulted law enforcement personnel on Jan. 6. The list included Klein, who was given the moniker "136-AFO." The FBI then received a tip from an individual who identified 136-AFO as Klein. The tipster told the FBI that Klein was their neighbor and "had exhibited extreme behavior to include displaying inflammatory rhetoric on their vehicle about President Biden, Vice President Harris, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the 'ANTIFA' movement," according to the court documents.
Investigators determined that Klein had been an employee of the U.S. Department of State until resigning his position on Jan. 19, the day before President Joe Biden's inauguration. Klein also possessed a top-secret security clearance, according to the court documents.
As of last summer, Klein was listed in a federal directory as serving as a special assistant in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs since January 2017, and was designated as a "Schedule C" political appointee. He also previously worked on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign as a tech analyst, according toPolitico, which first reported his arrest.
Five people, including a police officer, died when a pro-Trump mob breached the Capitol building on Jan. 6 in an unsuccessful attempt to halt Congress' certification of the 2020 presidential election.