A federal judge has dismissed a charge against a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent who was still working for the administration when he went onto U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, on Oct. 27 tossed a charge of lying to the government for Mark Ibrahim, the former DEA agent.
The charge said that Ibrahim “did willfully and knowingly make materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements and representations in a criminal matter in the District of Columbia” by telling a government agent that he did not knowingly expose his firearm and DEA badge while on Capitol grounds….