- A woman accused of disturbing the Capitol asked the court for permission to take a vacation in Mexico.
- Lawyers said Jenny Cudd “planned and paid in advance for a weekend retreat with her employees” in the Riviera Maya.
- Cudd was accused of illegal entry and disorderly conduct on the Capitol.
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A woman accused of participating in the US Capitol insurrection on January 6 asked a federal court to let her leave the United States for the vacation she had booked in Mexico.
Jenny Cudd’s lawyers asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday to approve Cudd’s request to travel abroad.
The motion, seen by Insider, said Cudd had “planned and prepaid a weekend retreat with his employees for the dates of February 18 to 21, 2021, in the Riviera Maya, Mexico.”
“This is a job-related retreat for employees and their spouses,” he added.
Cudd was accused of illegally entering a restricted building and disorderly conduct.
She owns a flower shop in Midland, Texas, reported The Daily Beast. She previously ran for mayor of the city, according to The New York Times.
She was charged in January after the FBI said a video showed her inside the Capitol. The FBI, citing security footage, said Cudd walked around parts of the building and took pictures from inside.
A screenshot of a video and a photo the FBI says shows Cudd inside the Capitol.
Screenshot via DOJ
The FBI statement said that after leaving Capitol, Cudd broadcast a live video on Facebook in which she said she attended President Donald Trump’s speech and went to Capitol before he finished speaking.
It said that she mentioned an invasion in the office of mayor Nancy Pelosi. “We broke the door to Nancy Pelosi’s office and someone stole her hammer and took a picture sitting on the chair and turning off the camera,” she said, according to the FBI.
The FBI described it as saying in the video: “F — yes, I’m proud of my actions. I fucking loaded Capitol today with patriots today. Hell, yes, I’m proud of my actions.”
To make her case, her lawyers said in their motion that Cudd was on trial and that she had no criminal record.
They 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 court orders to date and that her pre-trial services officer and government attorney have not objected to her travel request.