While a plea of not guilty has been entered for Agen, he potentially faces 15 years in prison if he’s found guilty of perjury.
Jarrod Agen, a former Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump and Director of Communications for Vice President Mike Pence, was arraigned on Thursday after a grand jury indicted him for allegedly lying to investigators examining the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Agen faces one felony count of perjury for allegedly lying “during an investigative subpoena investigation” and “giving false statements under oath,” Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud said in a Thursday morning press conference. Agen’s arraignment and indictment are part of efforts by the state’s Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel to indict the state’s former Republican Governor Rick Snyder, its former Michigan Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon and eight other former officials who now face charges of willful neglect of duty and involuntary manslaughter due to their oversight of the environmental and health disaster. Before working for the Trump administration from 2017 to 2019, Agen served as director of press logistics for the 2004 Republican National Convention and then worked as deputy press secretary and associate director of strategic communications for the U.
