Posted on 09/07/2023 4:41:36 AM PDT by thegagline
The director of information technology at Mar-a-Lago has agreed to cooperate with special counsel Jack Smith in a deal that will allow him to avoid criminal charges in the federal case over former President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, a new court filing shows.
The witness — described in a Justice Department court filing dated Tuesday as “Trump Employee 4” and identified by several media outlets as Yuscil Taveras — had previously recanted “false testimony” in the classified documents case, after switching lawyers and learning that he had left himself exposed to possible perjury charges.
The special counsel’s office “immediately offered Trump Employee 4 a Non-Prosecution Agreement,” after he changed lawyers, his former defense attorney Stanley Woodward wrote in the court filing.
“Represented by [First Assistant Federal Public Defender], [Trump Employee 4] then entered into a cooperation agreement with the government and testified before the grand jury in the Southern District of Florida on July 20, 2023,” the filing states.
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Taveras provided Smith’s team with incriminating information that led to a July superseding indictment against the 77-year-old former president related to his alleged efforts to delete surveillance camera footage taken at Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., club and residence, prosecutors have said.
Trump was charged with altering, destroying, mutilating, or concealing an object and corruptly altering, destroying, mutilating, or concealing a document, record, or other object in connection with his purported order to wipe the surveillance server.
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Taveras flipped after prosecutors raised concerns about a possible conflict of interest between him and Trump co-defendant Walt Nauta, who were both being represented by Woodward before the IT director struck his cooperation agreement with Smith.
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Yeah, asking someone for their papers isn’t negative at all!
You’re a liar and a troll. I did no such thing.
People either don’t realize or care that getting a lower-level guy to flip on the top-level guy is done every day in Federal Court.
I would say a couple more people are candidates to flip are Jenna Ellis and Mark Meadows, two people closer to the inner circle that an IT Director at Mar-a-Lago.
I could also see Rudy Guiliani flipping but that is a real long shot, given his financial situation, he might decide to take a plea in exchange for testimony.
He’s basically financially ruined at this point and might want to stop the bleeding.
The CLEAR intimation here is that supporting Trump's presidency is the only correct answer and joining FR for "another reason" is unacceptable. You knew what you were doing and now you're backtracking. Again, disgusting.
Thou shall not post stories about “The Leader” that put him in a bad light. Even if it’s written in the NY Post. LOL.
If he already has the possibility of being charged with perjury, then he’s already lying.
Looks like the sock puppets thongs are all bunched up.
Wonder if Jack will be buying million dollar homes around the Country after this is over. Seems Soros and Company is pumping millions trying to defeat Trump. Trump is the only thing that can stop Soros and Company from bringing down the Country. The Third Horse of the Apocalypse is Famine. We have had Plague and War.
He seems to be the whatever glorifies the name of Jack Smith is justified however raunchy or illegal kind of protoplasm.
IT schlep becomes “It Director”......
Didn't see that coming. /s
So they found some kiddy porn on his computer? That would have him flip.
Yuscil Taveras - another dis-appointment
The one thing we know for certain is that Trump isn’t responsible for all the shmucks he has appointed over the years. It’s Mitch McConnell’s fault, or McRomBush, or somebody else.
In the next administration, Trump will 4-D chess those evil people. I can’t say for sure, but I have a suspicion that Trump will be his own Vice President, his own Chief of Staff, his own executive staff, his own cabinet, and he will even be Melania’s hairdresser (and she’ll look even more beautiful).
You dont think he would lie to save his own ass, do you?
You parrot the left when calling us Cult members for supporting someone who is fighting for us. Gutless types such as yourself would have quit on Washington after his numerous defeats. May ye rot in hades Sunshine Patriot!!!
Lets just hope they offer you that deal when your turn comes. Meanwhile GTFO!
LOL, “gagamaggot” The NeverTrump Troll...
Don’t recall seeing that one!
You are holding on to his carefully crafted image. I am not. I have no time for selfish billionaires. This country is going to hell and I support people who have the best chance to change that. Trump is not one of them anymore.
Trumps defense lawyers will eat him alive.....
Yuscil Taveras is a registered Democrat with a sketchy record
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