D.C.'s top prosecutor says Capitol riot investigation is far from over

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The federal prosecutor whose office is investigating participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol says there is no end in sight to perhaps the most sprawling criminal probe in Justice Department history and that "it’s really hard to predict” how many people ultimately will be charged with taking part in the rioting.

“We’re certainly not at the end in terms of charges,” Matthew M. Graves, who was sworn in Nov. 5 as U.S. attorney for the District, said in an interview with The Washington Post. “The million-dollar question is: How close are we to the end?”

With about 750 people already arrested, he said, “it’s really hard to predict what the final number will be, given that we’re still somewhere in the middle — using that term very broadly — of the investigation phase.”....

Congress could reach an omnibus spending deal soon that would allow the U.S. attorney’s office to hire more people “who would work exclusively” on Jan. 6 cases in a reorganized, stand-alone “Capitol siege section,” Graves said. Senate and House appropriators have voted to fund much of a Biden-requested budget increase for the Justice Department that would to add up to 100 positions and 60 prosecutors to work on countering domestic terrorism. The department said that would include the surge in cases from the Capitol attack.

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1. They're still arresting new ones