US DOJ declines to charge ex-Trump officials Meadows and Scavino, NY Times reports

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino and Chief of Staff Mark Meadows arrive with US President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, US September 11, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

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WASHINGTON, June 3 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to charge Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino, two former officials in ex -President Donald Trump’s White House, for failing to cooperate with a House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol, the New York Times reported on Friday.

The newspaper cited a letter from the US Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves to House General Counsel Douglas Letter in which he said “my office will not be initiating prosecutions for criminal contempt” against Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, and Scavino, a former deputy chief of staff.

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Reporting by Eric Beech; editing by Costas Pitas

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