Posted on 08/22/2023 6:09:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Trump employee who monitored security cameras at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate abruptly retracted his earlier grand jury testimony and implicated Trump and others in obstruction of justice just after switching from an attorney paid for by a Trump political action committee to a lawyer from the federal defender’s office in Washington, prosecutors said in a court filing Tuesday.
The aide — described as “Trump Employee 4” in public court filings but identified elsewhere as Yuscil Taveras — held the title of director of information technology at Mar-a-Lago.
He initially testified to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., that he was unaware of any effort to erase the videos, but after getting the new attorney “immediately … retracted his prior false testimony” and detailed the alleged effort to tamper with evidence related to the investigation of the handling of classified information stored at Trump’s Florida home, the new submission said.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team revealed the details of the employee’s about-face as part of a filing demanded by Florida-based U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the classified records case against the former president.
She had questioned why prosecutors continued to collect evidence from a grand jury empaneled in Washington, D.C., even after Smith obtained a grand jury indictment in Florida in June charging Trump with more than 30 counts of retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Trump and longtime aides Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira are also charged in the case with taking steps to obstruct investigators seeking to recover the government documents.
Taveras’ reversal led directly to new charges against Trump that Smith’s prosecutors included in a superseding indictment issued by a federal grand jury in Miami last month, detailing alleged efforts to erase the security camera recordings, prosecutors said.
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“Nice life you got there, Yuscil Taveras. Be a shame if the Federal government happened to it.”
Bolsheviks in our midst.
Does he have family that the Feds can target like the did with General Flynn’s children?
eff this banana republic we live in, and eff the illegitimate ruling junta.
How Soviet
Nobody ever said...
-PJ
Okay….
-PJ
Blah, blah, blah.
You know, I will always believe the testimony of a person who changes his story, particularly when I don’t know how changed his story. What do you want to bet that Trump’s attorneys are not allowed to ask this guy about his flip flop?
Is this another attempt by the LAAP-dog media to twist the narrative away from Hunter Biden?
But the DoJ strong-armed a Trump supporter to change his testimony after ousting his former lawyer?
Is this the new lawyer because the defendant had a fill-in lawyer until someone was found with the proper clearance to file a plea?
This just goes to show how corrupt these charges are, knowing that the pool of defense lawyers are severely limited by the required security clearances required to work on these cases.
At some point, the government will claim conflict-of-interest because the limited supply of defense lawyers will be tied up with other Trump charges and they will reject the defense lawyers, argue speedy trial, or move to consolidate all the defendants into a single Nuremburg-style show trial ("I was just following Trump's orders") due to the limited supply of defense counsel.
-PJ
That’s why they arrested so many - to threaten them with decades of hard time unless they turn against the truth and lie about Trump.
Feds Garcia reply...sure looks like they are trying to get woodward tossed altogether.
No mention that any orders cam from Pres. Trump
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648654/gov.uscourts.flsd.648654.129.0.pdf
No mention that any orders cam from Pres. Trump
Carlos De Oliveira tried to enlist the director of information technology for Mar-a-Lago (identified
in the superseding indictment as Trump Employee 4) to delete Mar-a-Lago security footage after
the grand jury in the District of Columbia had issued a subpoena for the footage
“...after switching from an attorney paid for by a Trump political action committee to a lawyer from the federal defender’s office in Washington..”
Always go with your own lawyer, not a public defender.
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