Neither of the men have been accused by prosecutors of any role in Sicknick's death, which the Medical Examiner attributed to natural causes.
Background in the story at the top of the thread.
Khater’s lawyer Joseph Tacopina is speaking on behalf of his client now, offering a $15 million bond ("unheard of," he says), home detention and surrendering of his passports.
Tacopina on his client's "mace" or "spray":
"It was a small bottle."
Tacopina distances Khater from the Proud Boys and others charged in the Capitol siege, describing him as just an individual who was there for his own reasons.
"He was not a part of a far-right neo-fascist organization..."
Just as he did in the written briefings, Tacopina walks a fine-line of noting the hedges in the government's allegations that Khater "appearing" to hold a canister and spraying it "in the direction" of the officers.
It's something short of a full denial.
Tacopina said it's not bear spray, it's a small can of pepper spray or mace.
"He was responding to just being sprayed seconds before," the lawyer says, calling that important because it's not premeditated.
Tacopina describes the image of Khater as a "zealot, hell-bent on destroying democracy" as "fanciful."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Gilead Light is up for the government, saying that Khater "walked straight up to three police officers and sprayed them directly in the face."
"The idea that he was far away and this was a distant attack" is not supported by the video, Light says.
Prosecutor Light is rolling the tape now, which isn't visible (of course) on the court's virtual public phone line.
Ghislaine Maxwell heads to the Second Circuit today in another effort for pretrial release, a bid rejected three separate times on the district court level.
Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer tells the panel: "She's kept at night every 15 minutes with lights shining in her eyes so that they can check her breathing."
"They're doing it because Jeffrey Epstein died on their watch, and again, she's not Jeffrey Epstein."
"I fly Southwest a lot," @shannonrwatts quips, reacting to Wayne LaPierre's testimony that he travels exclusively by private charter jet for security.
As the NRA trial restarts today, catch up with my podcast for highlights, context and interviews here. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-…
The NRA's ex-CFO and treasurer Craig Spray testimony continues today.
When we left off, Spray testified to a culture of "Wayne says," meaning the NRA ran by LaPierre's fiat and allow subordinates to flout internal policies.
Testifying now in the NRA bankruptcy case is the group's board member, Wichita Judge Phil Journey.
The trial has resumed after the lunch recess.
When asked before the break whether he described Wayne LaPierre's filing of the bankruptcy filing as a fraud upon the court, Judge Journey answered: "Yes."
Gruber is now rolling tape from LaPierre's March 23rd deposition, where he cited the NYAG's action to dissolve the NRA or put it into receivership as the reason to file for bankruptcy.
NRA's general counsel John Frazer previously testified that he did not know that he did not know Wayne LaPierre's contract allowed him to file Chapter 11, Gruber notes.
Gruber asks LaPierre about that.
LaPierre: "I don't know what Mr. Frazer understood at that point."