The Department of Justice (DOJ) placed two federal prosecutors on leave Wednesday, according to multiple news reports, a day after they filed a sentencing memo describing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as a “riot” carried out by “thousands of people comprising a mob.”

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White were told they would be suspended from their posts on Wednesday and were locked out of their government devices, ABC News........

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