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roh rOhWASHINGTON — A Justice Department attorney who led the attempted prosecution of hundreds of anti-Trump and anti-fascist protesters swept up in a mass arrest on the day of former President Donald Trump's 2017 inauguration is facing rare ethics charges, with the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel alleging she hid exculpatory evidence from the defendants, edited videos to omit crucial context and then lied in court about her actions.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens, who went by Jennifer Kerkhoff at the time of the alleged misconduct, was the lead prosecutor on the more than 230 cases that arose out of the mass arrests of protesters near Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20, 2017.
The government adopted the extraordinary tactic of charging hundreds of people arrested on a public street with felony crimes based on the theory that their choice of black clothing meant they were part of a felony rioting conspiracy.
the ethics complaint against Kerkhoff Muyskens...alleges she violated six of the D.C. Bar's rules of professional conduct.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/d...&cvid=b44bfc08b1f64e0eefe6a8e8bd108706&ei=131