- This week, a New York attorney was charged with several offenses on January 6.
- Prosecutors used facial recognition technology in order to identify John O’Kelly from photos taken during the siege.
- More than 900 people are currently in prisonIn connection to the Capitol attack.
Federal prosecutors used facial recognition technology this week to arrest a New York attorney for the January 6th charges.
John O’Kelly (66) is facing two felonies as well as four misdemeanors in relation to his involvement in the insurrection. These include civil disorder, assaulting and resisting officers and disorderly conduct. court documents.
Prosecutors claim O’Kelly attempted to disarm officersGuarding the Capitol, O’Kelly grabbed an officer’s baton from him and “tried to wrestle” it. O’Kelly also drove a bike rack made of metal into several officers during the siege. According to the government.
NBC NewsO’Kelly’s arrest occurred Thursday morning. According to the outlet O’Kelly was previously employed by the Lawyers’ Commission for 9/11 Investigation, which believes that pre-planted bombs were responsible for the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.
O’Kelly filed for bankruptcy in 2019. LawsuitIn an attempt to present the conspiracy theory of the group to a grand jury, the group fought the Justice Department. The lawsuit was dismissed by a judge in March 2021. Five months later, appeals were filed and the decision was upheld.
NBC was informed by a representative of the company that O’Kelly has stopped working with the group.
According to court records, the tipster told them that they had identified O’Kelly through online sleuths. According to court documents, the tipster claimed that they used open-source photo ID software to identify O’Kelly from photos of the riot. Federal investigators then confirmed his identity using his DMV photograph.
Online sleuths have come to identify O’Kelly, yet to be identified by NBC as “MidWhiteCrisis”, NBC reports. This is due to O’Kelly’s inclusion in the FBI’s Capitol Violence webpage.
—Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 20, 2022
O’Kelly did in fact not respond immediately to Insider’s request.
More than 900 people are currently in prisonIn connection with the attack on the Capitol More than 400 people have pleaded guiltyThis is the end of it.
