Former Trump appointee found guilty of multiple felonies in Jan. 6 trial: Report
Federico Klein Convicted of Multiple Felonies in Capitol Police Assault Case
Federico Klein, a former State Department employee appointed by former President Donald Trump, has been convicted of multiple felonies after a multiple felonies in Jan. 6 trial: Report”>lengthy trial involving accusations
of violence towards the Capitol Police on January 6, 2021.U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, nominated to the Washington, D.C., court by Trump in 2017, heard testimony without a jury and found Klein guilty on 12 counts. These charges include six counts related to assaulting, impeding, or resisting Capitol police officers, as reported by the Washington Post. Klein is scheduled to be sentenced on November 3.
Co-Defendant Steven Cappuccio Also Convicted
Judge McFadden also convicted Steven Cappuccio, a co-defendant of Klein, who was among nine individuals charged with violent crimes during the Capitol insurrection. Cappuccio is expected to be sentenced in October and is accused of ripping the mask off police officer Daniel Hodges, who testified against another rioter charged with assaulting him. The rioter was subsequently sentenced to seven years in prison.
Klein, who initially worked as an aide for Trump’s 2016 campaign, later served as a special assistant in the Office of Brazilian and Southern Cone Affairs in 2017. He resigned from his role one day before President Joe Biden’s inauguration, according to a ProPublic database.
The FBI arrested Klein in March 2021, making him the first Trump appointee to be charged in a Capitol breach case. An indictment from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia stated that Klein “willfully and knowingly engaged in an act of physical violence within the United States Capitol Grounds and any of the Capitol Buildings.”
Prosecutors revealed that Klein was among the initial rioters to enter the Capitol tunnel and attempt to breach the door. A motion from 2021, denying Klein’s plea to revoke the order of detention, stated, “Klein placed himself in the thick of the violence aimed at breaking through the center doorway of the Lower West Terrace to gain entrance to the Capitol Building.”
Klein’s attorneys have argued for his case to be separated from the other defendants, claiming that his alleged offenses are less severe compared to those standing trial with him, who “engaged in far more threatening and intentional conduct.” Judge McFadden allowed Klein to remain on house arrest until his sentencing.
“Mr. Klein is not alleged to have injured anyone, and the government concedes his ‘assault’ of a law enforcement officer amounts to his having been in possession of a riot shield that also came into contact with a law enforcement officer,” stated Stanley Woodward, Klein’s lawyer, in a court filing from 2022.
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