- A woman charged with the uprising at the Capitol asked the court for permission to go on vacation to Mexico.
- Lawyers said Jenny Cudd had “planned and prepaid a weekend stay with her employees” in the Riviera Maya.
- Cudd has been charged with unlawful entry and disorderly conduct in the Capitol.
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A woman charged with participating in the Capitol uprising on Jan. 6 asked a federal court to let her leave the US for a vacation she booked in Mexico.
Jenny Cudd’s attorneys asked the US District Court for the District of Columbia Monday to approve Cudd’s request to travel outside the country.
The motion, seen by Insider, said Cudd “planned and prepaid a weekend retreat with its employees for the dates of Feb. 18 to Feb. 21, 2021 in Riviera Maya, Mexico.”
“This is a work-related retreat for employees and their spouses,” he added.
Cudd has been charged with unlawful entry into a restricted building and disorderly conduct.
She has a flower shop in Midland, Texas, The Daily Beast reports. She previously ran for the city’s mayor, according to The New York Times.
She was charged in January after the FBI said she was seen on video footage in the Capitol. The FBI called the security footage and said Cudd walked through parts of the building and took photos inside.
A screenshot of a video and photo that the FBI says show Cudd in the Capitol.
Screenshot via DOJ
The FBI affidavit said that after leaving the Capitol, Cudd livestreamed a video on Facebook in which she said she attended President Donald Trump’s speech and went to the Capitol before he finished speaking.
It said she was talking about a burglary at home speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. “We broke down the door to Nancy Pelosi’s office and someone stole her gavel and took a picture sitting in the chair turning the camera,” she said, according to the FBI.
The FBI described her as saying in the video, “F — yes, I am proud of my actions. I sued the Capitol today with patriots. Hell yes, I am proud of my actions.”
To defend her case, her lawyers said in their motion that Cudd was being paroled and that she had no criminal history.
She described her as “a small business owner in Midland, Texas and an established member of her community”.
They also said that she had followed all the court’s orders so far and that her prosecutor and government counsel had no objections to her request to travel.