For Oath Keepers and founder, Jan. 6 was weeks in the making
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For Oath Keepers and founder, Jan. 6 was weeks in the making
By COLLEEN LONG Associated PressWILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — For more than a year, federal prosecutors have been investigating the Capitol riot, and at least 700 people have been charged, mostly with lower-level crimes. So it was stunning when prosecutors last week charged the leader of the far-right militia group known as the Oath Keepers, along with 10 other members or associates, with seditious conspiracy, a rarely-used Civil War-era statute reser…

For Oath Keepers and founder, Jan. 6 was weeks in the making
By COLLEEN LONG Associated PressWILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — For more than a year, federal prosecutors have been investigating the Capitol riot, and at least 700 people have been charged, mostly with lower-level crimes. So it was stunning when prosecutors last week charged the leader of the far-right militia group known as the Oath Keepers, along with 10 other members or associates, with seditious conspiracy, a rarely-used Civil War-era statute reser…