WASHINGTON — The congressional Jan. 6 committee said it’s working to get the Justice Department access to transcripts of witness interviews, a day after the Capitol riot prosecution of two Proud Boys was delayed due to lack of access.
“The Select Committee is engaged in a cooperative process to address the needs of the Department of Justice,” its spokesman, Tim Mulvey, in a statement Friday. “We are not inclined to share the details of that publicly. We believe accountability is important and won’t be an obstacle to the department’s prosecution.”
The Justice Department declined to comment. Federal prosecutors in Washington agreed Thursday to put a case against Proud Boys members Joseph Biggs and Dominic Pezzola on hold because the parties could not review the testimony potential witnesses gave to the committee.
