Stephen Miller, a former White House columnist and senior adviser under President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed by the Justice Department, according to a CNN source.
The department is seeking information about the Save America PAC, alleged “fake voters” and communications between Miller and a long list of people.
CNN previously reported that a federal grand jury is looking into the Save America Leadership PAC, one of former President Donald Trump’s primary political vehicles and fundraising vehicles, in an expansion of the criminal investigation into the events surrounding the attack on Capitol Hill. USA on January 6, 2021.
There has been no public evidence that Miller has any involvement in the voter fraud plot.
Miller’s attorney did not immediately return a call for comment.
The New York Times was the first to report that Miller had been subpoenaed.
According to multiple sources familiar with the subpoenas, which were issued by a grand jury in Washington, D.C., the Justice Department is seeking information about the formation, fundraising and spending of Save America, which has raised more than $100 million dollars in contributions since it was founded in November 2020.
William Russell, a senior adviser to Trump, was the recipient of one of the calls on Wednesday. Brian Jack, Trump’s White House political director, was also subpoenaed this week, according to the Times.
According to a source familiar with the language of the subpoenas, investigators may be looking into whether people associated with the Save America PAC defrauded people out of money by using claims they knew to be false about stealing the 2020 election.
Some of the subpoenas also sought any information the recipients had previously turned over to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and communications the recipients may have had with a broad list of people who worked to overturn the 2020 election results. – including former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing, and Boris Epshteyn, an adviser to Trump’s 2020 campaign, among others.
That included communications with a list of people from various states, according to two subpoenas described to CNN.