{"id":42247,"date":"2025-05-14T02:56:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T07:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42247"},"modified":"2025-05-14T02:56:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T07:56:20","slug":"federal-grand-jury-indicts-milwaukee-judge-accused-of-obstructing-immigration-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42247","title":{"rendered":"Federal grand jury indicts Milwaukee judge accused of obstructing immigration agents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted a Wisconsin judge<\/a> arrested by the FBI for allegedly obstructing<\/a> government agents seeking to detain an undocumented immigrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two-page indictment accuses Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan of confronting members of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and falsely telling them they needed a judicial warrant to conduct their operation. It also accused her of directing the undocumented immigrant and his lawyer to exit through a separate door to sidestep federal agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dugan was arrested last month and charged with obstructing or impeding a proceeding before a department or agency of the United States, and concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The maximum penalty for the counts is a total of 6 years in prison and up to $350,000 in fines. Dugan is scheduled to enter her plea to the charges Thursday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dugan\u2019s attorney Craig Mastantuono said in a statement Tuesday that the judge maintains her innocence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs she said after her unnecessary arrest, Judge Dugan asserts her innocence and looks forward to being vindicated in court,\u201d Mastantuono said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dugan’s arrest in April marked an intensification in the Trump administration\u2019s crackdown on immigration and its attacks on judges, sparking protests in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the day of her arrest, Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Fox News<\/a>: \u201cIf you are harboring a fugitive, we don\u2019t care who you are, if you are helping hide…anyone who is illegally in this country, we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dugan was released on bond after appearing before a federal magistrate judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wisconsin Supreme Court temporarily relieved<\/a> Dugan of her duties last month while the case moves forward, an action the court said it took on its own and to protect public trust in Wisconsin courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted a Wisconsin judge arrested by the FBI for allegedly obstructing government agents seeking to detain an undocumented immigrant. The two-page indictment accuses Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan of confronting members of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and falsely telling them they needed a judicial warrant to conduct their operation. It also accused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":42248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33266,4741,1700,33129],"class_list":["post-42247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-federal-grand-jury","tag-indictment","tag-judge","tag-obstruction-of-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42249,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42247\/revisions\/42249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}