US authorities have forfeited $90.000 to a Utah man who sold to the media a video of the killing of a woman during the riots in the US Congress on January 6.
According to court documents, John Earl Sullivan filmed the confrontation between the police and supporters of then US President Donald Trump in Congress and the moment when protester Ashley Babbitt was shot, who later died.
He presented himself as an independent journalist reporting on the riots and sold the footage to the US media for $90.000, according to Voice of America.
In the meantime, he was found to have participated in the violence and encouraged other Trump supporters to "burn down" the Congress building.
Five people died in riots during the four-hour occupation of Congress by Trump supporters. So far, 440 people have been charged with violence.
The riots broke out immediately after Trump's rally in Washington, where he inflamed the atmosphere by repeating baseless claims that the Nov. 3 presidential election was rigged and calling on supporters to "fight like hell" against the election results and march to the nearby Capitol Hill. .
Trump, accused of inciting a riot by supporters who stormed Congress, was impeached by the lower house of Congress but acquitted by the Senate.
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