(Washington, D.C., Friday, July 22, 2022) – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) alleges that text messages from the Secret Service on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021, were erased as part of a planned system migration.

The committee subpoenaed the Secret Service for the deleted messages on Friday, July 15 and will likely receive the documents on Tuesday, July 19. A Secret Service spokesperson said the agency has turned 800,000 records over to the committee.

The Secret Service informed the committee that the records could no longer be located due to a changeover to a new phone system.

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John Mahoney is a Washington, DC Attorney at Law and the Founding and Managing Partner of the Firm, who specializes in the practice of federal sector employment, labor, and national security clearance law. Attorneys Mahoney were included in the 2022 Bar Registry of Preeminent Lawyers, named Top Lawyers of Washington D.C. by the Baltimore Sun, and maintains a Superb 10.0 AVVO rating as a AV Preeminent Law Firm on Martindale-AVVO. John, himself, has also collected quite an inspiring list of honors and awards. He was selected as a Top 100, as well as a Distinguished, Attorney in 2022, a 2021 Top-Rated Lawyer in Labor & Employment, and as a 2022Top-Rated D.C. Metro Lawyer in Labor & Employment Law by The National Law Journal, Corporate Counsel Magazine, and American Lawyer Magazine, and Corporate International named John as the 2022 Federal Employment Lawyer of the Year in Washington, D.C. Most recently, he was selected as “Washington, D.C.’s Leading Employment and Labor Rights Attorney of the Year,” within Acquisition International (AI) Global Media’s 2021 Leading Advisor Awards.