(Daily Mail) The judge set to oversee former President Trump’s latest criminal case is known for her sentencing of January 6 rioters and worked at a law firm associated with Hunter Biden.
DC federal Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was picked to oversee Trump’s criminal case in the capital was declared ‘the toughest punisher’ of rioters charged with offenses relating to the 2021 riot.
In a profile by the Associated Press, written last year, they said: ‘Chutkan has handed out tougher sentences than the [Justice Department] was seeking in seven cases, matched its requests in four others and sent all 11 riot defendants who have come before her behind bars.’
The article, titled ‘In Jan. 6 cases, 1 judge stands out as the toughest punisher’, continues: ‘In the four cases in which prosecutors did not seek jail time, Chutkan gave terms ranging from 14 days to 45 days.’
The AP article continued that Chutkan jailed, despite prosecutors not asking for it, ‘an Ohio couple who climbed through a broken window of the U.S. Capitol.’
DC federal Judge Tanya Chutkan, pictured here, was declared ‘the toughest punisher’ of rioters charged with offenses relating to the 2021 January 6 riot
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a political rally while campaigning for the GOP nomination in the 2024 election on July 29, 2023 in Erie, Pennsylvania
Other individuals caught during the insurrection included a ‘Texas mortgage broker [who] posed for a selfie in front of rioters breaching the building [and an] Indiana hair salon owner celebrated on Facebook a day after she joined the pro-Donald Trump mob,’ the AP wrote.
The 61-year-old was nominated by former President Barack Obama, was born in Jamaica and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s law school.
Chutkan had worked at the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner from 2002 until she was confirmed a federal judge in 2014.
Boies Schiller has strong connections to the Democratic Party and then-second son Hunter Biden — whose dad President Biden is likely to face Trump in the 2024 election — was of counsel at the firm from 2009 to 2014,
It is not known if the two ever had any interaction while working there.
It was while at the law firm, that Chutkan’s high profile cases included representing Theranos, the blood testing company run by jailed Elizabeth Holmes.
The mother-of-two was found guilty last year of four fraud-related counts in relation to Theranos and was sentenced to just over 11 years in prison.
Chutkan is listed as one of the firm’s lawyers on a DC superior court judge’s ruling against the company.
She has now been picked to oversee the case against former President Donald Trump who has been hit with federal criminal charges over his attempts to cling to power after losing the 2020 election.
Trump has also been accused of ‘spreading lies’ and ‘sham’ investigations while stoking an ‘angry’ mob on January 6.
US President Donald Trumps supporters gather outside the Capitol building in Washington D.C., United States on January 06, 2021
Special Counsel Jack Smith (right) has led the federal investigation into former President Donald Trump and his attempts to stay in power after the 2020 election
Trump has also been accused of ‘spreading lies’ and ‘sham’ investigations while stoking an ‘angry’ mob on January 6.
Special Counsel Jack Smith said in a televised public statement following the release of the indictment that the attack on the Capitol was ‘fueled by lies’ made by Trump.
The former president, who is facing a maximum of 55 years in prison on the four counts, has been summoned to appear before Chutkan on Thursday in Washington.
Trump is already facing 40 federal charges in Florida relating to his handling of sensitive government documents after leaving office, and is due to stand trial in New York next year accused of falsifying business documents after making a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
The criminal cases have plunged the country into uncharted legal and political territory, as Trump accuses prosecutors of trying to derail his election campaign.
The latest indictment comes amid a slew of investigations into the events of January 6, 2021, when Trump supporters clashed with police and overran the U.S. Capitol, and the way the then-president tried to overturn the result.
The Trump campaign put out a statement calling the indictment another ‘witch hunt’ and comparing the U.S. to Nazi Germany.
It said: ‘The lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the former Soviet Union, and other authoritarian, dictatorial regimes.’
The indictment continues on to say Trump and his co-conspirators ‘knowingly’ made false claims that there had been ‘outcome-determinative’ fraud in the elections.
It charges them with ‘prolific lies about election fraud’ including ‘dozens of specific claims’ in states.
Trump’s ‘knowingly false statements’ were ‘integral to his criminal plans to defeat the federal government function,’ it says.
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Supporters of US President Donald Trump protest outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021
