The US congressional committee probing January 6 riots on the Capitol on Thursday threatened former President Donald Trump's White House chief of staff with a criminal contempt referral, if he does not appear before the panel and hand over required documents by Friday morning, Reuters reported.
If former chief of staff Mark Meadows does not produce the documents and appear for testimony at 10:00 a.m. EST, the House of Representatives Select Committee will view his actions as willful non-compliance, the panel's Democratic chairman, Representative Bennie Thompson, said in a letter to Meadows' attorney.
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