D.C. judge who will oversee Trump’s criminal case is the ‘toughest punisher’ of January 6 rioters — and worked for a law firm associated with Hunter Biden

The judge overseeing former President Trump’s latest criminal case is known for her Jan. 6 sentencing of rioters and worked at a law firm associated with Hunter Biden.

D.C. federal judge Tanya Chutkan, who was chosen to oversee Trump’s criminal case in the capitol, was named “the harshest punisher” of rioters charged with crimes related to the 2021 riot.

In an Associated Press profile written last year, they said: “Chutkan handed down harsher sentences than the Justice Department demanded in seven cases, answered his requests in four others, and sent all 11 riot defendants who have come before her behind her. the bars.’

The article, titled “In Cases of January 6, 1 Judge Stands Out as the Most Harsh Punisher,” continues: “In the four cases where prosecutors sought no jail time, Chutkan gave jail terms ranging from 14 days to 45 days.”

The AP article continued that, despite prosecutors not asking, Chutkan jailed “an Ohio couple who climbed through a broken window of the US Capitol.”

Others caught during the riot included a “Texas mortgage broker (who) posed for a selfie for rioters breaking into the building (and an Indiana hair salon owner celebrated on Facebook a day after joining the pro-Donald Trump mob’). wrote the AP.

Nominated by former President Barack Obama, the 61-year-old was born in Jamaica and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania law school.

Chutkan worked at the Boies Schiller Flexner law firm from 2002 until she was confirmed as a federal judge in 2014.

Boies Schiller has strong ties to the Democratic Party, and then-second son Hunter Biden — whose father President Biden is likely to face Trump in the 2024 election — served as an advisor to the company from 2009 to 2014.

It is not known if the two ever had contact while working there.

It was during his time at the law firm that Chutkan represented Theranos, the blood testing company run by the imprisoned Elizabeth Holmes, among others.

The mother-of-two was found guilty of four fraud-related counts related to Theranos last year and was sentenced to just over 11 years in prison.

Chutkan is listed as one of the company’s attorneys in a D.C. superior court judge’s ruling against the company.

She has now been selected to oversee the case against former President Donald Trump, who has been charged by federal criminal charges over his attempts to stay in power after losing the 2020 election.

Trump has also been accused of “spreading lies” and “sham investigations” while inciting an “angry” mob on Jan. 6.

Trump has also been accused of “spreading lies” and “sham investigations” while inciting an “angry” mob on Jan. 6.

Special counsel Jack Smith said in a televised public statement after the indictment was released that the attack on the Capitol was “fueled by lies” by Trump.

The former president, who faces up to 55 years in prison on four counts, has been subpoenaed to appear before Chutkan in Washington on Thursday.

Trump already faces 40 federal charges in Florida over his handling of sensitive government documents after his term in office, and will face trial next year in New York for falsifying business records after making a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

The criminal cases have plunged the country into uncharted legal and political territory as Trump accuses prosecutors of trying to derail his election campaign.

The latest indictment comes amid a slew of investigations into the events of January 6, 2021, when Trump supporters clashed with police and raided the U.S. Capitol, and the way the then-President attempted to reverse the result.

The Trump campaign released a statement calling the indictment another “witch hunt” and comparing the US to Nazi Germany.

It read: “The lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the former Soviet Union, and other authoritarian, dictatorial regimes.”

The indictment goes on to say that Trump and his co-conspirators “knowingly” made false claims of “outcome-determining” election fraud.

It accuses them of “many lies about election fraud,” including “dozens of specific claims” in states.

Trump’s “knowingly false statements” were “integral to his criminal schemes to defeat the function of the federal government,” it says.

It labels the letters A through F as knowingly false statements. That included claiming 10,000 dead voters in Georgia and a so-called “suspicious vote dump in Detroit.”

After November 13, when Trump’s lawyers admitted in court that they had lost Arizona, they implemented a strategy of “knowing cheating.”

Trump’s “knowingly false statements” were “integral to his criminal schemes to defeat the function of the federal government,” it says.

It labels the letters A through F as knowingly false statements. That included claiming 10,000 dead voters in Georgia and a so-called “suspicious vote dump in Detroit.”

After November 13, when Trump’s lawyers admitted in court that they had lost Arizona, they implemented a strategy of “knowing cheating.”

It concludes by saying that Trump “knowingly conspired, conspired, confederated, and conspired with co-conspirators, known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to corruptly obstruct and pervert an official proceeding, that is, the certification of the election ballot.” to obstruct.’

The indictment mentions Trump’s First Amendment right to make even false claims — and points to Trump’s potential defense at trial.

This is the latest in a series of legal challenges, with more potentially to come as prosecutors in Georgia also investigate Trump and his allies over allegations of election interference in the state.