Alexio

Alexio and his lawyer protested that the request for his testimony was "harassment" and opposed the transfer, but federal Magistrate Judge Leslie Kobayashi ruled that federal attorneys established that Alexio was the person named in the warrant for his arrest in connection with the subpoena seeking the grand jury testimony.

Federal authorities in Virigina contended that the target of the grand jury investigation alleged that Alexio provided information that she relied on.

"As such, it is essential and necessary to the grand jury investigation that Alexio describe any conversations and contact he had with the target, a resident of the Western District in Virginia," the U.S. attorney's office there said.

Kobayashi ordered that Alexio be transferred by June 22.

In the meantime, Alexio remains in custody.