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2021 Capitol insurrection charges

Some twenty years after its implementation, a provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 18 U.S. Code § 1512, was introduced in the prosecution of many of the rioters of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. Some 40% were charged with corruptly impeding an official proceeding.