联邦大陪审团拒绝起诉前白宫助理Cassidy Hutchinson：司法部曾调查其国会证词是否不实
据路透社10月27日报道，一名知情人士当天证实，Washington 的一个联邦大陪审团已拒绝起诉前白宫助理 Cassidy Hutchinson；司法部此前一直在调查她向国会调查2021年1月6日国会山袭击事件的委员会所作证词是否不实，Hutchinson 一贯坚称自己的证词属实。
据路透社报道，一名联邦检察官10月27日在联邦治安法官 Zia Faruqui 主持的一场法庭听证会上表示，Washington 的大陪审团已经拒绝了一项起诉，但这名检察官没有在庭上说出拟起诉对象与拟议罪名。另一名知情人士向路透社表示，大陪审团当天一直在开会审议相关证据。知情人士证实，被拒绝的起诉针对的正是 Hutchinson。
Hutchinson 曾任白宫幕僚长 Mark Meadows 的助理。2022年，她在众议院1月6日事件特别委员会作证，成为该调查中最受关注的证人之一：她作证说，她曾听说特朗普在2021年1月6日得知特勤局人员不肯开车送他去国会山后曾试图抢夺方向盘，还说 Meadows 曾被提醒当天可能发生暴力。特朗普方面与部分特勤局人员对其中一些说法提出异议。
据报道，此案源于众议员 Barry Loudermilk 今年早些时候向司法部提交的一份刑事移送，众议院司法委员会主席 Jim Jordan 亦附署支持；刑事移送只是建议，并不直接产生指控。大陪审团拒绝起诉，意味着司法部此次寻求指控的努力未能过关。
背景方面，特朗普在2025年1月重返白宫首日赦免了几乎所有因参与2021年国会山袭击被刑事指控的人；前特别检察官 Jack Smith 团队曾在2023年起诉特朗普企图推翻2020年大选结果，后在特朗普赢得2024年大选后，依据司法部不起诉在任总统的政策撤销了该案与另一宗案件。
Federal Grand Jury Declines to Indict Former White House Aide Cassidy Hutchinson Over January 6 Committee Testimony
A federal grand jury in Washington has declined to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on October 27. The Justice Department has been investigating Hutchinson over whether she gave false testimony to the congressional panel that probed the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol; Hutchinson has maintained that her testimony was truthful.
According to Reuters, a federal prosecutor told U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui during a court hearing on Tuesday that a grand jury in Washington had rejected an indictment, but the prosecutor did not reveal in court the proposed defendant or the charges. A second source said the grand jury weighing evidence in the case had been meeting on Tuesday. The source familiar with the matter confirmed the rejected indictment concerned Hutchinson.
Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, became one of the most prominent witnesses before the House January 6 select committee in 2022, testifying that she had been told Trump lunged at a Secret Service agent after the agent would not drive him to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and that Meadows had been warned about possible violence that day. Trump allies and some Secret Service agents have disputed parts of her account.
The case reached the Justice Department after Representative Barry Loudermilk sent a criminal referral earlier this year, which House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan signed onto; such referrals are recommendations only and do not themselves produce charges. The grand jury's refusal ends this attempt to secure an indictment.
Trump pardoned nearly everyone criminally charged over the 2021 Capitol attack on his first day back in office in January 2025. Former special counsel Jack Smith and his team had indicted Trump in 2023, accusing him of plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat, but Smith dropped that case and another after Trump won the 2024 election, citing Justice Department policy against prosecuting a sitting president.
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