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Michael Riley, the disgraced former Capitol Police who was found guilty of obstruction of justice after he tipped off a Capitol rioter and warned him to delete incriminating Facebook posts, has lost his bid to have his verdict overturned. Per Politico’s Kyle Cheney, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Friday rejected Riley’s appeal to have his conviction tossed. In its ruling, the court sums up Riley’s argument as being that “the government failed to establish that an official grand jury proceeding was foreseeable or that he deleted his Facebook direct messages t…

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