The Department of Justice is opening a criminal investigation into whether federal immigration agents lied under oath after prosecutors dropped charges against two Venezuelan men accused of assaulting an officer in Minnesota.
A federal judge in Minneapolis agreed to dismiss the case Friday after evidence emerged showing the government’s version of events was “materially inconsistent with the allegations” against Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, according to Minnesota’s top federal prosecutor.
