January 17, 2021 4:53 pm Police use tear gas around Capitol building where pro-Trump supporters riot and breached the Capitol in Washington DC on Jan. 6, 2021. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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(JTA) A grant funneled through a Jewish federation to a group that was accused of funding the Capitol insurrection was an anomaly, said Eric Fingerhut, the CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America.
Fingerhut reached out to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency to address the controversy engendered by an Intercept article last week that noted the $100,000 grant in 2017 to the Tea Party Patriots, a group that organizers of the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection say helped fund the protest. Tea Party Patriots denies funding the protest.