Ex-government employee charged with submitting false tips alleging coworkers' involvement in Capitol riot

A former government employee was charged this week with submitting false tips about ex-colleagues to the FBI's tip line investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, according to court documents unsealed Friday. Miguel Zapata was arrested Thursday in Chantilly, Virginia, in connection with providing materially false statements to law enforcement, according to an arrest warrant. Zapata submitted at least seven anonymous tips via the FBI's tip portal from February to April of 2021 that accused former government co-workers of playing a role in the attack on the Capitol, according to an...