Ed Martin, the interim American lawyer in Washington, told his employees on Wednesday that his office was investigating a set of threats against federal employees and officials, including a suspect plot to attack Defense Minister Beit Higseth.
Mr. Martin, in an email obtained by the New York Times, provided minimal details about the plot, saying only that a woman had pushed Washington from Massachusetts last month with incendiary weapons. They are planning to “accuse her of every possible crime.”
Mr. Martin, who President Trump It was nominated this week to run the Public Prosecutors Office full -timeHe also said that he recently spoke with a senior member of the government competence department in Elon Musk and discussed the threats that were made against the agency’s employees. In a message published on social media and to which Mr. Musk sent to this month, Mr. Martin I promised to open an inquiry In allegations that Mr. Musk raised that some of his workers faced harassment.
The main theme of Mr. Martin’s message was that he would not tolerate threats against anyone working for the federal government. However, Mr. Martin, a Trump Savior who was in the mob outside the Capitol on January 6, 2021, has proven that it was somewhat selective about the issue of government employees who deserve to be protected.
“We are the American Public Prosecutor’s Office. We are the guardians of federal workers.” You and I must do everything possible to ensure that government work is safe for all concerned. We must protect our policemen, our prosecutors, our employees in Dog, the president, and all other government employees. “
In the email, Mr. Martin revealed that the US Prosecutor’s office himself was “flooded by threats” after he and his subordinates supervised the rejection of dozens of accusations caused by the attack on the Capitol.
When making this disclosure, Mr. Martin used a type of politically charged that Mr. Trump has often used to support rioters. He wrote that the threats of his office had been against “those who helped liberate the sixth of January.”
As part of Mr. Trump A sweeping grant of compassion For all 1,600 people accused regarding January 6, Mr. Martin personally rejected some criminal cases in which rioters were accused of attacking the Capitol police officers. She stood as the Ministry of Justice I launched more than ten years In his office, which worked in riots in the Capitol.
Since controlling the US Prosecutor’s Office last month, Mr. Martin used to send unusual email messages almost daily to his employees. On Wednesday, the email was particularly strange to the way in which he spoke frankly about the sensitive investigation of the threat against Mr. Higseth and suggested that Mr. Martin was dealing directly with the senior members of the Mr. Musk team.
In another unusual step, Mr. Martin revealed in his e -mail that he had contacted Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat in New York and the leader of the minority, to investigate what he described as the threats of Mr. Shomer against the Supreme Court judges.
In March 2020, as The court heard arguments in the main abortion caseMr. Shomer spoke at a rally of abortion rights, and it appears that he addresses two conservative judges, Neil M. Gortich and Brett M. Kvano, and told them that they “issued the tornada” and “pay the price.”
Mr. Martin seems to have sought to deliver these statements by Mr. Shomer to The arrest after more than two years From a man in California, Nicholas Rosk, in which the police caught near the house of Judge Cavano in Maryland, armed with a pistol and a knife and carried compressed bonds. Mr. Rosk is currently awaiting trial for federal assassination.
A spokesman for Mr. Shomer did not respond to a message seeking a comment.
The email about threats came in a difficult moment for Mr. Martin, who had a chaotic relationship with some hundreds of public prosecutors under it.
On Tuesday, Dennis Cheung, who supervised the office of the office, Suddenly After rejecting a request from the heads of the Ministry of Justice to freeze the assets of a government contractor, saying that there was not enough evidence to do so. In her resignation letter, Mrs. Cheung described how Mr. Martin asked her to step down after she refused to request a bank to freeze contractors’ accounts.
