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The wheels of justice continue to turn. Those who led an inquisition against wrongthink under the Biden regime now pay the price for instituting tyranny.
Federal prosecutors Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White landed on administrative leave Wednesday morning.
Justice Department officials locked them out of government devices hours after they filed a sentencing memo for a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant, contending the J6 protesters were "a mob of rioters."
The two prosecutors, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, were locked out of their government devices and informed Wednesday morning they will be placed on leave just hours after filing a sentencing memorandum in the case of Taylor Taranto, the sources said. https://t.co/WLedmQ0NXk
— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) October 29, 2025
The pardoned J6er, Taylor Taranto, faces sentencing Friday on unrelated firearms and hoax threat charges.
Authorities arrested him in June 2023 near former President Barack Obama's Washington home. His van contained firearms, ammunition and materials resembling Molotov cocktails. Prosecutors linked the trip to a Truth Social post by then-former President Donald Trump.
Taranto reposted the address.
He livestreamed from his van in the Kalorama neighborhood.
In their 14-page memo to U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, Valdivia and White urged more than two years in prison.
They wrote, "thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters."
"Taranto’s menacing rhetoric harms public discourse and encourages others to use threats and violence to advance their views or silence their perceived political opponents," the filing added.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, who oversees Taranto's prosecution, issued a statement addressing the punitive measures taken against the federal prosecutors, noting, "While we don’t comment on personnel decisions, we want to make very clear that we take violence and threats of violence against law enforcement, current or former government officials extremely seriously. We have and will continue to vigorously pursue justice against those who commit or threaten violence without regard to the political party of the offender or the target."
Valdivia and White represent the latest Jan. 6 prosecutors to face consequences; this episode fits a broader purge.
Trump officials terminated about 30 federal prosecutors from the U.S. attorney's office in Washington who handled Jan. 6 cases. Officials fired more than a dozen from special counsel Jack Smith's team after Trump took office in January. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Gordon sued over his firing.
FBI purges, though meager, followed. Officials forced out more than half a dozen high-ranking executives.
Trump pardoned Taranto and over 1500 Jan. 6 defendants on day one of his second term.
Prosecutors argued his clemency covered only Capitol-related charges. Nichols agreed.
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