In the midst of more pressing matters like the House not being able to elect a Speaker, the Hamas attack and so many Democrats revealing their dark anti-Semitic side, it is understandable that “Squad” member Jamaal Bowman’s law-breaking to disrupt a House vote on the budget and his subsequent ridiculous lies to minimize his responsibility might have been pushed to the back of our brains. (You can review this clown show here, in the first seven posts listed). But justice has, sort of, prevailed.

Bowman was booked, fingerprinted, photographed and processed by the U.S. Capitol Police today, after D.C. prosecutors charged the Democrat with setting off a false fire alarm in the Cannon Office Building adjacent to the Capitol, a misdemeanor.

Bowman has agreed to plead guilty to the single false fire alarm charge. He will pay the maximum fine of $1,000, and all charges will be dropped in three months provided that Bowman provides a formal apology to the Capitol Police along with the fine. The New York Times says this is the standard policy with such charges.

“I’m thankful for the quick resolution from the District of Columbia attorney general’s office on this issue,” Bowman said in a statement yesterday responding to the charge. “I am responsible for activating a fire alarm, I will be paying the fine issued and look forward to these charges being ultimately dropped.” His statement did not address the fact that by pleading guilty, he is admitting that his act was intentional, despite saying repeatedly at the time that he thought the obvious fire alarm apparatus would open the doors of the building, which are always locked on weekends, and that included signs clearly explaining the situation. But Bowman is still lying: in his statement he said that he was “grateful” that the Capitol Police general counsel’s office “agreed I did not obstruct nor intend to obstruct any House vote or proceedings.” There was no such statement by authorities indicating that. Obstructing House business is a felony, and no determination has been made public about whether charges will be brought for that. Gabriel Shoglow-Rubenstein, a spokesman for the D.C. attorney general’s office which announced the charges, said, “Congressman Bowman was treated like anyone else who violates the law in the District of Columbia,” Mr. Shoglow-Rubenstein said in a statement. “Based on the evidence presented by Capitol Police, we charged the only crime that we have jurisdiction to prosecute.”

The D.C. attorney general’s office—Full disclosure: I have done a yearly ethics training for the office for more than a decade—does not handle obstruction charges.

Representative Bryan Steil (R-Wis), the chairman of the House Administration Committee which oversees the Capitol Police, reminded all that his committee has opened its own investigation into the incident. (If the investigation hadn’t been opened, whould Steil have pulled a fire alarm to open it? I think not…) “Representative Bowman’s excuse does not pass the sniff test,” Steil said . “After pulling the fire alarm, Representative Bowman fled the scene, passed by multiple Capitol Police officers and had every opportunity to alert U.S.C.P. of his mistake.” He again encouraged the House Ethics Committee to “further pursue this matter.” He also suggested pigs try flying.

OK, I’m kidding about that last part.

At least we know that 1) Bowman will sustain some punishment, 2) his plea formally acknowledges that he pulled the fire alarm intentionally and not accidentally, 3) he is a disgraceful elected official who did not have the integrity to be honest about what he did even when it was caught on video, and 4) he relied on his principle-free party and its loyal propagandists in the media to treat his lie as reasonable and credible even though it obviously wasn’t, and they did.

We also know, sadly, he will largely duck appropriate accountability because of the party’s news media allies, and because he is black.