Prosecutors investigating former White House adviser Steve Bannon admitted that they had taken records of people unrelated to the probe who happen to have the same name as Bannon’s lawyer.
In a filing, the Justice Department said the mistakes were made while they were attempting to get email and phone logs of Bannon attorney Robert Costello.
“The Government acknowledges that… it did not recognize the inconsistent middle name in the billing information,” the DOJ wrote. “These were appropriate investigate steps,” it insisted.
Bannon is scheduled to go on trial on July 18th for contempt of Congress, though his attorneys are attempting to get the charges thrown out. His lawyers had advised him to ignore a demand from Congress that he testify to the committee investigating the circumstances surrounding the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
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Probably very common in investigations. The error in no way effects that this anti American is a criminal though.
Sounds like they confused it with Lou Costello from the olden Abbot and Costello comedy show.
These charges against Bannon are way overdone and the FBI and other government agencies and operatives have been exposed in ‘setting up’ the ‘January 6 event’ and not responsibly policing it with any reasonable diligence.
Now I know why all those men and women in “FBI” windbreakers surrounded my local Costello’s bakery. And the worst part is they bought all the chocolate babkas.
Rt is the definition of the village idiot