Jan. 6 defendant secretly flips on Capitol rioters in win for prosecutors

The defendant has already served his time in prison and is expected to cooperate with the government for current investigations into other offenders.

A participant in the January 6 Capitol riot who was caught on video surveillance encouraging fellow rioters to steal police officers' firearms agreed to a secret plea deal with the federal government months ago, according to unsealed court records.

The new legal filing, unsealed by the Justice Department on Monday, revealed that on March 8 Lazar waived indictment and pleaded guilty to charges of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers as a felony and aiding and abetting as part of a plea deal that required government cooperation.Donald Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

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