Marc Short, the chief of staff for former vice president Mike Pence, gave testimony to a grand jury on January 6.
Short and his lawyer Emmet Flood were seen exiting D.C. District Court on Friday, according to an ABC News report from Monday.
According to sources who spoke with the network, Short came before the grand jury under oath.
The Department of Justice is looking into the Capitol incident separately from the House Select Committee’s inquiry into what happened on January 6.
According to prior reports from ABC, the DOJ broadened its investigation in March to encompass both the demonstration on the Ellipse that was held before the disturbance and the funding of that event.
Short would testify before the grand jury as the highest-ranking Trump White House official ever.
CNN reported in January that Short had spoken with the House Select Committee on January 6 in order to once again comply with a subpoena.
On January 6, Short was inside the Capitol with Pence.
He was by the vice president’s side, however, on January 4, as former President Donald Trump and attorney general John Eastman attempted to persuade Pence that he had the authority to void the election when he counted Electoral College votes on January 6, during the joint session of Congress.
Prior to the joint session, Pence released a statement in which he promised not to annul the results.
Trump then attacked Pence at the Ellipse and later on Twitter.
Trump tweeted after the brawl started, “Mike Pence didn’t have the fortitude to do what should have been done.”
Outside the U.S. Capitol, Trump fans famously screamed, “Hang Mike Pence.”
The shocking information that members of Pence’s Secret Service detail had begun calling their families out of terror was one of the most startling disclosures from Thursday’s primetime January 6 broadcast.
The committee members were told by a security guard whose voice was hidden: “The members of the VP detail at this point were starting to fear for their own lives.”
‘Over the radio, there was a lot of screaming and very private calls. I don’t enjoy talking about it, but it was troubling,” the official stated.
Whatever the reason on the ground, the VP detail feared this was going to get extremely unpleasant, the official added.
“There were calls to say farewell to family members, so on and so forth.”
The official claimed that the conversational tone between them suggested they anticipated things “getting to a whole ‘nother level shortly.”