WASHINGTON — Kellye SoRelle, the overall counsel for the far-right group the Oath Keepers, was arrested in Texas on Thursday after being indicted on 4 expenses in reference to the Jan. 6 assault, the Justice Division stated.
A federal grand jury indicted SoRelle on 4 counts: conspiracy to impede an official continuing, obstruction of an official continuing, obstruction of justice, and a misdemeanor depend of getting into and remaining in a restricted constructing or grounds. She has not been charged with seditious conspiracy, as different Oath Keepers have.
The indictment supplies few particulars however alleges that she “did corruptly persuade and try to corruptly persuade different individuals with intent to trigger and induce such individuals to (A) withhold information, paperwork, and different objects from an official continuing, that’s, the Grand Jury investigation into the assault on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and (B) alter, destroy, mutilate, and conceal objects with intent to impair the objects’ integrity and availability to be used in such a Grand Jury investigation.”
SoRelle was on encrypted chats with members of the Oath Keepers, and the FBI had seized her phone final September. SoRelle was featured within the Jan. 6 committee hearings and spoke extensively to the committee.
SoRelle, who was a volunteer with Legal professionals for Trump in the course of the 2020 election, previously told NBC News that Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes had tried to get her to provide him her contacts with former President Donald Trump’s crew earlier than the Jan. 6 assault.
Rhodes and different members of the Oath Keepers are going through expenses of seditious conspiracy. One Oath Keeper who pleaded responsible to that cost, William Todd Wilson, told a judge that he heard Rhodes on the cellphone with somebody in Trump’s orbit on the evening of Jan. 6, telling the particular person to have Trump “name upon teams just like the Oath Keepers to forcibly oppose a switch of energy.”
Through the name, in response to Wilson, Rhodes tried to speak to Trump instantly, however the particular person on the opposite finish “denied Rhodes’ request to talk instantly with President Trump.”
The Oath Keepers, together with SoRelle, then headed to a suburban Olive Backyard.
