Rep. Barry Loudermilk, who represents the northwest Georgia district that borders that of Marge Greene, has announced that the Oversight Subcommittee that he Chairs will launch an investigation into Hutchinson. Loudermilk says that he discovered that Hutchinson waived her attorney-client privilege in writing with her first attorney in order to provide testimony to the Committee about the reasons why she changed her initial story about what happened.
Hutchinson was first represented by Stefan Passantino when she gave her original statement to the Committee. She later fired Passantino and retained new counsel, who contacted the Committee to inform them she wished to correct certain aspects of her testimony. Hutchinson explained that people "in Trump World" arranged to have Passantino represent her because he was considered loyal to Trump. Passantino, who had worked in the White House, told her that he would represent her free of charge because his fees had already been taken care of. She later learned he was paid by close allies of Trump.
Hutchinson told the Committee that Passantino pressured her to mislead the Committee and to omit certain important and relevant facts about what was happening in the White House leading up to the events on J6. Passantino denied any wrongdoing in his representation, but resigned from his firm after the controversy.
