After providing police with vague information as to what had taken place, the man was airlifted by rescue hospital to Mackay Base Hospital in a critical condition.
He underwent surgery and was deemed to be in a “serious but stable condition” on Thursday night, according to a Mackay Hospital and Health Service spokeswoman.
Police were dispatched from surrounding areas and at 11.30am sought to establish an exclusion zone over a vast area of country, hoping to contain whoever was responsible.
Vehicles, including even media helicopters, were warned to stay away, as police sought to prevent any further shootings. By 2.30pm, police had located the bodies and shifted the exclusion area.
Police searched scrub and grazing land at Bogie after being alerted to a triple murder.
On Thursday afternoon, Mackay District Police Superintendent Tom Armitt said the “killer or killers” were still at large, in an area he described as remote, hilly and heavily forested.
Armitt said the survivor had traveled “many, many kilometers” to raise the alarm.
“Originally, when the male person spoke to us, he was obviously in a distressed state,” he said.
“There was some confusion about where the shooting had occurred.
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“We do not know who is responsible.
“No indication has been given to us as to why this has occurred.”
According to the most recent census, Bogie has 207 people, almost two-thirds of them men.
The nearest major employer is the Glencore mine at Collinsville, however there are numerous large cattle properties.
There was speculation on Thursday of a boundary dispute involving neighboring graziers, however police remained tight-lipped.
The federal government must rapidly prepare plans to redesign Glen Canyon Dam’s plumbing to keep the Colorado River flowing through the Grand Canyon as the water levels behind the dam continue to fall, a coalition of environmental groups warned on Wednesday.
Lake Powell is just a quarter full, its surface now at 3,536 feet above sea level — 46 feet from the minimum level to produce hydropower — and falling after the early summer gush of snowmelt from the Rocky Mountains. Two more dry winters could push the reservoir past that point, according to forecasters, and ultimately dam managers may have to open bypass tunnels more than 100 feet deeper just to keep the river flowing.
If it comes to that, the river advocates and their new analysis caution, those tunnels will prove insufficient to release as much water as the Southwest counts on to pass through the Grand Canyon and restock Lake Mead each year.
“This system needs flexibility and it needs it now,” said Eric Balken, whose Glen Canyon Institute partnered with the Utah Rivers Council and the Great Basin Water Network on a new report urging action.
Lake Powell’s elevation has dropped more than 160 feet since it was essentially full at the turn of this century, and the pace has quickened in recent years. Dropping below what the outlets were designed to handle would jeopardize delivery of the water needed to irrigate farms and fully supply cities from Phoenix and Las Vegas to Los Angeles and Tijuana.
The groups’ quest is to persuade the US Bureau of Reclamation, which manages the dam, to study how to keep the river flowing if, as their analysis suggests, climate change and overuse push the system to a breaking point in coming years. Their preferred alternatives are to either expand the capacity of the bypass tunnels or build new tunnels at the dam’s base to allow the river to flow even if Lake Powell empties.
Agency looks for ways to preserve power production
On their first premise — the need to act to prevent the loss of hydropower — they’ll find agreement from many corners. The Bureau of Reclamation, the state of Arizona and the group representing the dam’s hydropower customers all say the region’s two decades of drought present an imminent threat to normal operations at Glen Canyon.
“Given the current uncertainties facing the Colorado River system, as well as the engineering uncertainties involving moving water through the existing infrastructure of Glen Canyon Dam with historically low levels, it would be prudent to thoroughly investigate all reasonable options for making changes to the infrastructure of the dam that enhance its capacity to move large volumes of water safely,” said Arizona Water Resources Director Tom Buschatzke.
NASA images reveal:Lake Mead’s water supply reaches record-low levels
A Reclamation spokeswoman said the agency has committed $2 million to study options to both continue generating power and meet water supply commitments to Arizona, Nevada, California and northwestern Mexico. One such idea that has long been discussed is the option of fitting hydropower turbines lower, in the bypass tunnels.
The idea of building new outlets around the dam’s base, essentially allowing the government to drain the reservoir at least temporarily if and when water managers decided that’s best, is more controversial.
“It gets you to the same point (environmentalists) have always been at, and that’s drain out Powell and fill Mead,” said Leslie James, executive director of the Colorado River Energy Distributors Association.
What is the future for both ladies?
The Glen Canyon Institute for years advocated a “Fill Mead First” proposal that would push Powell’s stored water downstream to an equally depleted Lake Mead, restoring treasured natural and recreational assets flooded behind Glen Canyon Dam.
That’s a prospect that ends hydropower production for customers who live around the West, including numerous tribes, so James opposes it. But she welcomes a Reclamation study of other options.
“I’m glad they’re doing it,” she said. “They’re the ones that know the dam inside and out.”
Fill Mead First is an idea whose time has passed, Balken said, if only because draining all the water from Powell at this point would not, in fact, be nearly enough to fill the larger reservoir downstream. Instead, he said, a river-level bypass system would allow the government to continue moving water downstream regardless of how low Lake Powell falls.
As currently designed, the dam would stop releasing water if the reservoir falls below the existing bypasses, effectively drying up the Grand Canyon and trapping nearly 2 million acre-feet of water behind the dam, nearly two-thirds of what Arizona would normally take from the river in a year.
Founded in Lake Mead:World War II-era boat emerges from lake in Arizona
But the Southwest would suffer long before the river actually stopped flowing, Balken and colleagues say, because the reservoir’s declining elevation would reduce pressure that causes water to gush from either the power intakes or the bypass tunnels. For this part of their analysis, they relied on a white paper produced by river scientist Jack Schmidt and colleagues at Utah State University.
Schmidt, a former chief of the government’s Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, published a paper in 2016 that included a quantification of the amount of water that the dam could move in a year at various elevations.
At elevation 3,430 feet, the volume that the dam could push downstream would drop below the 7.5 million acre-feet that the Colorado River Compact requires upstream states to supply to the states below Glen Canyon, not to mention the 1.5 million acre-feet in Mexico’s treaty allocation.
At 3,400 feet, still 26 feet above where the bypass tubes start to go dry, the dam could deliver less than half of the Southwestern states’ normal entitlement.
If drought worsens, the risks will grow
That entitlement already took a hit due to the shortage in Lake Mead this year. It was expected to shrink further next year, even before Reclamation’s commissioner announced in June that the states throughout the river basin need a plan to forego up to another 4 million acre-feet, which is about a third of what the river has produced most years during the drought.
The rapidly shifting mandates from the Bureau of Reclamation demonstrate the increasingly dire outlook, said Zach Frankel, executive director of the Utah Rivers Council. States were given just two months to plan dramatic cuts before the government sets 2023 shortage levels later this month.
“For an agency that normally moves at a glacial pace,” he said, “that’s pretty remarkable.”
Fast action is imperative, according to the report by Frankel and colleagues. In their analysis, a continuation of the weather and resulting flows that the Colorado experienced from 2017 to 2021 would push Lake Powell too low to make its obliged water deliveries by 2027.
They studied that timeframe, they said, because it fairly represents the 21st century’s reduction in flows, about 20% below last century’s. If, however, the coming years look more like the exceptionally dry stretch that occurred from 2000 to 2004, they projected the dam could lose its ability to move any water as soon as 2025.
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Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams has debuted her most dramatic hair transformation yet.
The 25-year-old UK actress, who shot to fame playing Arya Stark on the HBO fantasy series in 2011, uploaded a holiday snap showing off her edgy new buzzcut.
“Washing head w facewash,” she captioned photos of the new look on Instagram, adding the hashtag #3in1girlie.
British model Iris Law, 21, who recently debuted her own shaved head, gave Williams her stamp of approval in the comments, to which Williams replied, “U the blueprint.”
Tons of other friends and fans showed love for the bold look as well, with one person writing, “You have a lovely shaped bonce!”
Others commented, “Oh she cute,” “Queeeeeeen! I wasn’t ready” and “Wow, the buzz cut looks amazing on you.”
While this may be one of Williams’ most dramatic changes yet, she’s no stranger to pushing boundaries.
Earlier this year, the former child star bleached her hair and eyebrows a platinum hue for her role in the forthcoming limited series about the Sex Pistols.
And shortly after ending her eight-season run as Arya in 2019, Williams departed from her character by dyeing her brown hair a bright bubblegum pink.
“I love it, it’s a whole new me,” she said at the time.
Her big chop may be a nod to boyfriend Reuben Selby, who has a similarly cropped cut. The couple of three years often match their looks, having sported the same makeup and similar outfits in the front rows of Paris Fashion Week in 2019.
It comes as the Thrones spin-off,House of the Dragon, is just weeks away from premiering.
The prequel series, set 200 years before the events of GoTwill focus on the rise and fall of the Targaryen family.
It premieres express from the US on Binge and Foxtel on August 22.
Jackson Nelson and Zac Langdon are in line for Eagles recalls after both were named on an extended interchange for Josh Kennedy’s farewell game against Adelaide.
There will be at least three changes to the Eagles side who fell to the Suns last week, highlighted by the return of champion forward Kennedy for what will be the final game of his career.
Kennedy will return to the side after missing the loss to the Gold Coast, while Connor West and Jack Petruccelle miss out through injury and Jai Culley is suspended.
Langdon has not played since the West Coast’s round six loss to Port Adelaide and has battled an ankle injury for most of the season.
Meanwhile, Nelson has not featured since he celebrated his 100th game for the club against Geelong in June.
Jackson Nelson and Rhett Bazzo. Credit: Daniel Carson/AFL Photos/AFL Photos via Getty Images
Hugh Dixon, who was last week’s medi-sub, has been named on the extended interchange, as have Samo Petrevksi-Seton, Xavier O’Neill, Luke Foley and Greg Clark.
After missing last week’s game with an ankle injury, young gun Rhett Bazzo is also a chance to return for West Coast.
Jake Waterman, who sported strapping on his right knee and jogged laps with injured trio Petruccelle, Elliot Yeo and Tom Cole at training today, has been named on the wing.
WEST COAST:
B: S Hurn, T Barrass, L Duggan
HB: B Hough, H Edwards, J Jones
C: J Waterman, T Kelly, A Gaff
HF: L Ryan, J Darling, J Cripps
F: B Williams, J Kennedy, W Rioli
FOLL: N Naitanui, J Redden, L Shuey
I/C (from): Z Langdon, S Petrevski-Seton, X O’Neill, L Foley, J Nelson, R Bazzo, G Clark, H Dixon
While Manly Sea Eagles hooker Manase Fainu may not have signed into a Mormon church event where a man was stabbed in 2019, someone called Finau did, a jury has heard.
Under cross-examination during Fainu’s trial on Thursday, the officer in charge of the investigation Detective Brett Hill said one of the adults running the charity dance at Wattle Grove in Sydney had mentioned the sign-in sheet.
The unnamed adult told Senior Constable Odette Hansen that someone with the surname of Finau had signed in, but didn’t say that Fainu’s name was on the list, the court heard.
Manly player Manase Vehikite Am Fainu. (Rhett Wyman)
Hill said he had never seen the document, and had not looked for it.
“You’re a detective, aren’t you? Did you try and find it?” defense barrister Margaret Cunneen SC asked.
“I didn’t really think about it,” the detective replied.
Cunneen said the document was clearly important and asked the officer whether he had investigated the other name, Finau.
“I don’t remember,” he told Parramatta District Court.
Fainu is accused of stabbing Faamanu Levi in the back at the 2019 event organized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
He has pleaded not guilty to one charge of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
After a volunteer security guard ushered Fainu and his friends off the dance floor and outside, they later allegedly returned to the car park outside the church to start a brawl.
Manly Sea Eagles hooker Manase Fainu has been stood down from playing while the trial is underway. (APA)
Levi was rushed to hospital after the confrontation, suffering internal bleeding and a collapsed lung.
Hill told the court that Fainu had voluntarily turned himself into the police after the stabbing and had no prior criminal history of violence.
A sling which the league player had been wearing for a month due to surgery was seized from his home.
However, no blood was found on it and the only DNA which was detected was Fainu’s, the jury heard.
The trial in front of Judge Nanette Williams continues.
The extreme rainfall and flash flooding that killed at least 37 people in Eastern Kentucky this week, washing away houses and cars and turning streets into raging rivers, is one more example of how climate change is poised to overwhelm infrastructure across the United States in the years you eat
“We have dozens of bridges that are out — making it hard to get to people, making it hard to supply people with water,” Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said on Sunday. “We have entire water systems down that we are working hard to get up.”
With the electricity knocked out in many areas that set rainfall records, residents who survived the flooding were left to swelter without air conditioning amid the latest heat wave to hit the area this summer.
Janey Camp, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Vanderbilt University, told Yahoo News that the combination of climate change and the nation’s aging and neglected infrastructure are putting millions of people at risk of severe flooding.
“Nobody’s immune. I think Kentucky shows us that. It doesn’t matter if you’re in an urban area like Nashville or if you’re in rural Appalachia,” Camp said, adding, “We’re seeing more of these intense precipitation events, where there’s a lot of water dumped on an area in a short amount of time. And the infrastructure wasn’t designed to handle that amount of precipitation.”
On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the Biden administration would make just over $1 billion in grants available for states to harden infrastructure against threats like flooding and extreme heat.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at an event on funding climate resilience in Miami on Monday. (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)
“In recent days, deadly floods have swept through Missouri and Kentucky, washing away entire neighborhoods, leaving at least 35 dead, including babies, children,” Harris said of the still-rising death toll. “As has been reported, four children from one family. So, the devastation is real. The harm is real. The impact is real.”
Camp said that action, the funding of which came from the 2021 bipartisan Infrastructure Law, was overdue.
“We have a lot of aging infrastructure, especially when you think about storm water. A lot of communities don’t even have their own department for managing storm water, it kind of falls to public works or the water department,” Camp said. “Only in recent years, the past decade or so, have we really started thinking more about storm water. Now we’re being hit with these extreme storm events where the stormwater infrastructure, or any infrastructure put in place to help convey water away from an area, is being exceeded.”
Climate scientists have shown that for every degree Celsius of warming, the Earth’s atmosphere holds 7% more moisture. When conditions are right, that moisture can unload in the form of extreme precipitation events like the ones that dumped 12 inches of rain in Eastern Kentucky last week and another foot of rain days later in Illinois. In fact, three so-called 1,000-year rain events hit the nation’s midsection in a matter of days this past week.
“It’s almost as if you need to be hit by something, unfortunately, before the community wakes up and starts doing things differently,” Camp said, adding, “We can look at trends. We can look at the down-scale climate data and say, ‘Hey, some of these things are starting to happen more.’ What we are seeing in a lot of areas, especially in the Southeast, is more precipitation. year event, it’s an anomaly, but we’re seeing these happen more frequently.”
A car destroyed by flooding in Central Appalachia in Kentucky on July 30, 2022. (Wang Changzheng/Xinhua via Getty Images)
Cities and towns across the country are required by FEMA to formulate hazard mitigation plans, and many do so using Hazus, the department’s computer tool, which is described as providing “data for estimating risk from earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, and hurricanes.”
While that’s a good start at assessing risk, Camp said, the problem is that many communities don’t examine the worst-case models that climate change is making much more commonplace.
“In all reality, nobody’s running a 1,000-year event in their analysis. They’re running a 100-year event and maybe a 500-year event, to check the box and meet FEMA regulations for their hazard mitigation plan,” Camp said. “We need to quit looking at the past and start looking to the future And that’s challenging in a lot of communities, because they don’t have a lot of resources or expertise to do that.”
Indeed, communities like the ones ravaged in Appalachia didn’t have the budget to upgrade infrastructure to meet the threat of climate change. But if the Biden administration’s allocation of $1 billion in grant funding for infrastructure upgrades sounds like too much money, experts say far more money will be needed. As if to bolster that point, initial damage estimates for the recent flooding in Kentucky have been quoted at $1 billion.
A suspect mistakenly released from a Los Angeles County jail where he was being held on suspicion of shooting Lady Gaga’s dog walker and stealing her French bulldogs has been recaptured.
James Howard Jackson, 19, was arrested nearly five months after being released from jail while awaiting trial “due to a clerical error,” the county Sheriff’s Department says.
Here’s what you need to know about the latest development in the saga.
Wait, what happened?
In February last year, Lady Gaga’s dog walker, Ryan Fischer, was shot by a man who stole two of the singer’s French bulldogs in Hollywood.
Detectives said they did not believe the thieves knew the dogs, Koji and Gustav, were Lady Gaga’s at the time.
It is believed the offender was motivated by the value of French bulldogs, which can be thousands of dollars each.
Lady Gaga with one of her beloved French bulldogs.(Supplied: Instagram)
Is the dog walker OK?
Yes, but he has lost part of a lung as a result of his injuries.
In a social media post following the attack, Mr Fischer thanked Gaga for her support while he was fighting for life in hospital.
“You have shown so much support throughout this whole crisis to both me and my family,” he said.
“I look forward to the future and the moment when I get bombarded with kisses and licks (and maybe even an excitement pee?) from Asia, Koji, and Gustav.”
Ryan Fischer thanked Lady Gaga for her support while he recovered in hospital.(Supplied: Instagram)
And the dogs?
They’re also safe and well.
Lady Gaga offered a $US500,000 reward ($643,000) — “no questions asked” — to be reunited with the dogs.
The dogs were returned two days later to an LAPD station by a woman who police initially said appeared to be “uninvolved and unassociated” with the crime.
Lady Gaga’s French bulldogs Koji, Miss Asia and Gustav. (Supplied: Instagram)
Who was charged?
A month after the kidnapping, multiple people were charged with attempted murder and robbery in connection with the armed snatching of Lady Gaga’s dogs and the shooting of their walker.
Police arrested James Jackson, 19, Jaylin White, 19, and Lafayette Whaley, 27, in connection with the violence.
Police also arrested 50-year-old Jennifer McBride — the woman who returned Lady Gaga’s dogs who police initially said appeared to be “uninvolved” with the crime.
Ms McBride turned out to be in a relationship with the father of one of the suspects.
So someone was arrested, then mistakenly released, but has now been recaptured?
Yep.
Mr Jackson was mistakenly released from a Los Angeles jail in April this year, where he was being held on a charge of attempted murder.
Last month, US authorities offered a $US5,000 ($7,200) reward in return for information that led to his arrest.
At the time, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said the move aimed “to speed up the legal process” and Mr Jackson was arraigned under a new case number.
“Mr Jackson was subsequently released from custody by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. We are unsure as to why they did so,” the statement from the District Attorney’s Office read.
Australia’s Commonwealth Games netball campaign has been dealt a blow, with the Diamonds falling to Jamaica in a thrilling pool match in Birmingham.
Key points:
The Diamonds led by six goals ahead of the final quarter
Jamaica captain Jhaniele Fowler was outstanding with 47 goals
The Diamonds will play either England or New Zealand in the semi-finals
Jamaica trailed by as many as six goals heading into the final quarter, but finished in resounding fashion to overhaul the Diamonds with a 57-55 victory.
It is the first time in Commonwealth Games history that Jamaica has defeated Australia in netball.
The win means unbeaten Jamaica tops Pool A ahead of the Diamonds, who will play either England or New Zealand in the semi-finals.
Jamaica captain Jhaniele Fowler, who plays for West Coast Fever in Super Netball, had a starring role in her team’s win with 47 goals.
Jamaica was rewarded for its persistence in its shock victory over Australia.(Getty Images: Matthew Lewis)
Shanice Beckford provided a valuable 10-goal haul.
Gretel Bueta was the Diamonds’ top scorer with 36 goals, while Steph Wood added 19.
Fowler was unstoppable for Jamaica, with no-one in the Diamonds squad able to counter her size and strength.
Jamaica’s game plan was evident from the outset: get the ball to Fowler early and often, and by whatever means necessary.
It turned the center third into a battleground as players hit the deck on numerous occasions.
The Diamonds had not lost a single quarter all tournament, but on the back of Fowler doing what she wanted Jamaica jumped out to a 7-3 lead.
The Diamonds worked their way back into the contest with Bueta matching Fowler’s 10 first-quarter goals as they took a one-goal lead to the first break.
They started imposing themselves in the second quarter to open up 27-23 lead, but to the delight of the crowd Jamaica stormed home to get within one goal at the long break.
The third quarter was dominated by the Diamonds, who jumped out to a six-goal lead before Jamaica’s late surge in the final term.
An Aboriginal man from the New South Wales south coast has been ordered not to fish, dive or possess abalone for the next two years after being found guilty of fisheries offences.
Key points:
Fisher Keith Nye was ordered to pay $4,500 in fines and 200 hours of community service
The magistrate acknowledged his cultural connection but said the crime was a breach of the law
Mr Nye said the fight for cultural fishing wasn’t over
Walbunja man Keith Nye was sentenced to a 26-month intensive corrective order in Liverpool Local Court on Thursday for two offenses of trafficking indictable quantities of abalone.
He was also ordered to pay $4,500 in fines and perform 200 hours of community service, and his vehicle will be seized.
Mr Nye, 65, was arrested in Sydney in January 2017 with 439 abalone in his car. Another 128 were seized elsewhere.
The Fisheries Management Act 1994 defines an indictable quantity of abalone as 50.
In sentencing, Magistrate Adbul Karim acknowledged Mr Nye “had and continues to have a strong cultural connection to fishing for abalone” but noted his conduct was a “substantial breach” of the Act.
Mr Nye was arrested after surveillance by Fisheries officers found he had sold abalone to a restaurant in Sydney on January 20, 2017.
Another 128 abalone were seized from the restaurant’s freezer.
Mr Nye does not hold a commercial fishing license and has been convicted previously for abalone possession.
Mr Nye says he has a right to cultural fishing.(Supplied: Vanessa Milton)
Outside court, he said the sentencing ends a five-year court battle.
“I have been found guilty of practicing my culture, something I have done my whole life … but thank God the judge, I believe, took our culture on board and recognized who we are – it could have been much worse,” he said.
The offenses carry a maximum of 10 years imprisonment.
Mr Nye said he has a right to cultural fishing, particularly for abalone, something he said he’s done since childhood.
“The government expects me to walk away from that,” he said.
“Culturally, it’s a food source. Our elders love eating them but the rules and regulations upon us do not allow us to feed our elder people.
“How can one black man with a snorkel, pair of glasses and a pair of flippers rape the ocean.”
Cultural fishing is recognized under the Act but doesn’t consider it a defence.
NSW Aboriginal Land Council Chair Danny Chapman said he was concerned about the court’s inability to find native title rights to fish and to survive.
“Our cultural rights have been taken away from us by government action over the years and all we have left is our fishing rights – and we will not take a backwards step on our fishing rights,” he said.
“We have to practice it, we have to teach it and we have to hand it on.”
A spokesperson for NSW Department of Primary Industries said it “recognizes and encourages cultural fishing through increased take and possession limits.”
It said it “supports the rights of Aboriginal cultural fishers and is actively working to support Aboriginal cultural fishing within a sustainable natural resource management framework”.
Last month, a district court judge dismissed an appeal by Walbunja man John Carriage to overturn his conviction on fishing-related offenses.
Mr Carriage was convicted in October last year on six fishing offenses after he was found in possession of abalone at South Durras on the NSW south coast in December 2017.
In October last year Mr Carriage was convicted on six fishing offences.(Supplied: Vanessa Milton)
He was given a 12-month intensive correction order and ordered not to dive for or possess abalone for two years.
He appealed against the decision, which he said prevented him from practicing cultural fishing.
The matter was heard in the Parramatta District Court on June 1, where Judge Mark Buscombe dismissed the appeal.
Lawyers for NSW Fisheries asked Judge Buscombe to award them $25,000 in legal costs against Mr Carriage.
Mr Carriage’s lawyer, John Waters, described the request as a “heavy-handed” approach, and said his client was not in a position to pay.
He said there was an element of Fisheries “hounding” his client and described the cost as “a serious amount for any person facing this court, but all the more so for this defendant.”
Judge Buscombe told the court Fisheries’ decision to ask for Mr Carriage to pay costs “troubled” him.
“This man is a descendant of people who have fished in these waters for a millennia. As an ordinary Australian I find it repugnant, quite frankly,” he said.
Dozens of Aboriginal people were charged last year, according to the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics.
Mr Nye said the fight wasn’t over.
“We’re already lobbying … It’s a good feeling to walk out but really is justice there yet? I don’t think it is. We’re not going away.”
Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone has been subpoenaed by the Justice Department in an investigation increasingly involving former President Trump’s closest advisers, according to reports from multiple news outlets.
The subpoena comes as the Justice Department has been bringing other White House officials before a grand jury in its probe into Jan. 6.
Cipollone would be able to offer considerable insight into actions at the White House both leading up to and on Jan. 6. His testimony before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack indicates he had numerous concerns about the former president’s plans for the day and how he responded to the riot.
The Justice Department has already brought two former advisers to then-Vice President Mike Pence before a grand jury.
It has also executed search warrants on Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department assistant attorney general who Trump weighed installing as attorney general so he could forward investigations into the president’s baseless claims of election fraud, along with John Eastman. Eastman, a former law professor, crafted memos for the campaign advising they submit alternate electoral certificates and that Pence buck his ceremonial duty to certify the election results.
According to ABC News, which first reported the subpoena, Cipollone’s attorney is expected to negotiate his appearance, given the former White House counsel’s concerns around executive privilege.
An attorney for Cipollone did not respond to a request for comment and the Justice Department also declined comment.
“This is probably bad for former President Trump. If he goes in front of the grand jury, it shows that this is more than, you know, what did John Eastman do? The attorney that basically came up with that crazy scheme to overturn the election. And it probably has a very deep interest in what the president did,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said in an appearance on CNN’s “New Day” on Wednesday morning.
“The Justice Department knows better what they can, in essence, get around when it comes to saying executive privilege. And so I hope they go at that judiciously. I hope Pat Cipollone actually just tells the truth. I have no doubt that he hasn’t, but there’s no reason to protect particularly criminal behavior or what could potentially be criminal behavior behind executive privilege,” he added.
Jan. 6 committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) told reporters last month that DOJ had asked for transcripts with the panel’s investigators tied to Trump’s plans to transmit fake voter certificates to Congress.
But the interest in Cipollone suggests the probe could be more wide ranging, especially following reporting by The New York Times indicating that federal prosecutors are beginning to more seriously discuss directly investigating Trump’s actions.
Earlier testimony before the House Jan. 6 committee indicated Cipollone pushed back against a plan to issue an executive order allowing the seizing of voting machines.
According to testimony from White House aide Cassidy Hutchison, he also expressed legal concerns about Trump’s plans to march to the Capitol, warning they could be charged with “every crime imaginable.”
And in a portion of his taped deposition played in the committee’s final hearing of the summer, Cipollone was also shown saying he pushed Trump to call off the mob if his supporters stormed the Capitol.
“There needed to be an immediate and forceful … public statement that people need to leave the Capitol now,” Cipollone said.
