"In six days we have opened over 150 casefiles, and that's just the tip of the iceberg," says Steven D'Antuono, FBI Washington Field Office assistant director in charge.
"Even if you've left DC, agents from our local field offices will be knocking at your door, if you were involved in the activity at the Capitol."
"We are going to have, I believe, hundreds of criminal cases," says acting US Attorney for DC Michael Sherwin. "This is going to be a long-term investigation."
"When criminal conduct occurs, we try to charge people as soon as possible...we'll try to do that via criminal complaint,"
says Sherwin. "We look for the most simple charge we could file as quick as possible. Therefore the inital charges filed in a lot of cases were misdemeanors"
says Sherwin. "We look for the most simple charge we could file as quick as possible. Therefore the inital charges filed in a lot of cases were misdemeanors"
"But what the public isn't familiar with is that the FBI...we're looking at significant felony cases tied to sedition and conspiracy," says Acting US Attorney Michael Sherwin.
"We set up a strike force to focus on assaults on the media," says Sherwin. "We have assigned specific prosecutors in our offices to focus on those cases as well."
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