Federico Klein, a Donald Trump appointee to the State Department, was found guilty of eight felony counts and four misdemeanors related to his participation in the Republican-led January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol, WUSA CBS-9 in Washington reports.
Klein requested a bench trial, without a jury, and may have thought he drew the lucky card by getting assigned to Trump-appointed DC federal judge Trevor McFadden, but McFadden determined prosecutors made their case on felony counts for assaulting, resisting or impeding police, civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding.
A staffer during Trump’s 2016 campaign, Klein resigned his position in the State Department at the end of Trump’s single term in office. He was arrested in March 2021 after investigators got a number of tips, including from at least one State Department coworker, who recognized Klein when he was featured on a “wanted” poster.