From Politico: A federal judge has ordered one of the organizers of Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, rally to pay a daily $2,000 fine, after weeks of skirting a civil court subpoena for records related to her role in the events.
Caroline Wren, a longtime Republican fundraiser, was a liaison between the Trump White House and participants in the Jan. 6 rally, helping arrange speakers, coordinate the timeline and boost attendance. She’s among the many witnesses subpoenaed by Capitol Police officers suing Trump, accusing him of fomenting the violence that occurred that day, in a lawsuit that has been pending for four years.
U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks issued the order Wednesday after Wren was a no-show at a last-ditch hearing to explain why she hasn’t complied with the subpoena. He said the daily fine — one he said needed to be “stiff enough to enforce compliance” — was his preferred course of action.
“I don’t want to resort to incarceration if at all possible,” the judge said.
ABOUT THIS JUDGE: Donald Middlebrooks, 78, was nominated by president Bill Clinton in January 1997 to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in May 1997.
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NEW: Jan. 6 rally organizer Caroline Wren has been held in contempt of court will be fined $2,000 a day for defying a subpoena in the civil lawsuit by police officers against Donald Trump.
Jail could be next, judge warns.
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