Except that the FBI refused to confirm that, and while Epps was about the single most provocative ringleader, he was taken off the list of people charged or even subpoenaed to testify.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation “can’t say” who Ray Epps is, and the
Justice Department won’t share any information on why he was removed from a list of potential suspects in the US
Capitol riot.
The two agencies’ responses to the curious case of their former person of interest, identified in photo No 16 in an FBI list of people whom the feds wanted to identify, provided more fodder for speculation after the select committee investigating the January 6 riot outright denied he was a federal agent or informant.
“Mr Epps informed us that he was not employed by, working with, or acting at the direction of any law enforcement agency on January 5th or 6th or at any other time, and that he has never been an informant for the
FBI or any other law enforcement agency,” a select committee
spokesperson said.
The statement came after the FBI and Justice Department leadership refused to confirm or deny, under oath, whether Mr Epps was working with federal authorities or whether they knew why he hasn’t been charged in connection to the violence.
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