- An FBI affidavit filed this week details how one Trump supporter who participated in the Capitol siege passed evidence of his potential crimes to an FBI agent.
- In an email to the agent, who addressed the accused as ‘Nice FBI Lady’, he attached several videos that allegedly contained his voice and footage recorded inside and outside the Capitol.
- The accused, Kevin Lyons, also described to agents how he walked into the ‘big boss’ Nancy Pelosi’s office after entering the Capitol.
- Lyons is accused of “knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or site without lawful authority” and “violent encroachment and disorderly conduct on Capitol site.”
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Federal agents have arrested more than 30 people since a violent mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters besieged the US Capitol last week to halt the peaceful transfer of power.
In an affidavit against one of the accused this week, the FBI set out how he had conveyed evidence of his potential crimes to an agent he addressed as ‘Nice FBI Lady’, explaining how he was at the office of Home Secretary Nancy Pelosi , which he describes as ‘big boss’.
According to the affidavit, defendant Kevin Lyons posted several photos on social media showing how he plans to attend a January 6 meeting in Washington, DC, under the heading of the president. Trump is widely accused of inciting the riot of the Capitol during his rally, urging supporters to march to the Capitol, ‘fight’ the results of the 2020 election and ‘take back our country’.
One photo Lyons posted on his Instagram account was a screenshot of a map depicting the route from Lyons’ home in the Chicago area to Washington, DC. In the caption, Lyons wrote that he was “on his way to DC to stop the stable!” Following the coup attempt, Lyons posted another photo on social media platform of a wooden sign that read “Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.” Lyons’ caption to the photo said: “WHO’S HOUSE?!?!? OUR HOUSE !!”
According to the FBI’s affidavit, when agents questioned Lyons about the second photo on January 8 – two days after the riot – he expressed surprise that investigators discovered it, as it was only an hour on his account before it was removed. is. Lyons added that he could not ‘guarantee that he posted it’, but the same photo, which he had saved, showed agents on his phone, the statement read.
He was also ‘evasive’ about revealing whether he had entered the Capitol, the document said, but told agents he had a ‘dream’ in which he ‘knocked a lot on doors, paper throwing around and a crowd of people see ‘. “Lyons further said that people in the dream ‘really did not have much choice of where they would go because of the mob’ and that if he was inside the Capitol, it would take about 45 minutes.
Lyons also showed video footage of agents recorded in the Capitol. Asked if he was willing to hand over the video to the FBI, the accused said the file was too large to transmit and offered to upload the videos to YouTube and send the links instead.
“Hello beautiful FBI lady, here are the links to the videos,” Lyons said in an email to FBI Special Agent Land, according to the affidavit. ‘It looks like Podium Guy is in one of them, less the podium. Let me know if you need anything else. Kevin Lyons. ‘
‘Podium Guy’ was a reference to Adam Johnson, another Trump uprising who was photographed transporting Pelosi’s chair from the Capitol and has since been arrested. The desk was also recovered.
The FBI statement said the three videos sent by Lyons contained footage of people inside and outside the Capitol, and that his voice could be heard throughout.
In the interview with FBI agents on January 8, the statement said, Lyons gave a detailed description of the trip to Washington, DC, with the pro-Trump mob going to the Capitol, and entering the Capitol, inside the building wandering around and the “big boss” office.
“Lyons was asked if it was a reference to Nancy Pelosi and he said yes,” the statement said. Based on Lyons’ description of the events in which he participated, the FBI believed there was a probable cause to prosecute him for violating a federal law that prohibits people from consciously entering any restricted building or site. go or stay there without legal authorization to do so; and violating a federal law prohibiting violent access and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
Lyons appeared before a judge after being arrested on federal charges this week and was released on a $ 10,000 confession. His court-appointed attorney, Lawrence Wolf Levin, made no comments during the trial, reports The Chicago Tribune. Levin did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.