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April 24, 2023 by LAW

Trump lawyer must turn over documents on classified records, court rules

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in a sealed order Wednesday directed a lawyer for Donald Trump to turn over to prosecutors documents in the investigation into the former president’s retention of classified records at his Florida estate.

The ruling is a significant win for the Justice Department, which has focused for months not only on the hoarding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, but also on why Trump and his representatives resisted demands to return them to the government. It suggests the court has sided with prosecutors who have argued behind closed doors that Trump was using his legal representation to further a crime.

The order was reflected in a brief online notice by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The case is sealed and none of the parties in the dispute is mentioned by name.

But the details appear to correspond with a secret fight before a lower-court judge over whether Trump lawyer M. Evan Corcoran could be forced to provide documents or give grand jury testimony in the Justice Department special counsel probe into whether Trump mishandled top-secret information at Mar-a-Lago.

Corcoran is regarded as relevant to the investigation in part because last year he drafted a statement to the Justice Department asserting that a “diligent search” for classified documents had been conducted at Mar-a-Lago in response to a subpoena. That claim proved untrue as FBI agents weeks later searched the home with a warrant and found roughly 100 additional documents with classified markings.

Another Trump lawyer, Christina Bobb, told investigators last fall that Corcoran had drafted the letter and asked her to sign it in her role as a designated custodian of Trump’s records.

A Justice Department investigation led by special counsel Jack Smith and his team of

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March 29, 2023 by LAW

Trump Lawyer Ordered to Turn Over Mar-a-Lago Case Documents

(WASHINGTON) — A federal appeals court in a sealed order Wednesday directed a lawyer for Donald Trump to turn over to prosecutors documents in the investigation into the former president’s retention of classified records at his Florida estate.

The ruling is a significant win for the Justice Department, which has focused for months not only on the hoarding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago but also on why Trump and his representatives resisted demands to return them to the government. It suggests the court has sided with prosecutors who have argued behind closed doors that Trump was using his legal representation to further a crime.

The order was reflected in a brief online notice by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The case is sealed, and none of the parties in the dispute is mentioned by name.

But the details appear to correspond with a secret fight before a lower court judge over whether Trump lawyer M. Evan Corcoran could be forced to provide documents or give grand jury testimony in the Justice Department special counsel probe into whether Trump mishandled top-secret information at Mar-a-Lago.

Corcoran is regarded as relevant to the investigation in part because last year he drafted a statement to the Justice Department asserting that a “diligent search” for classified documents had been conducted at Mar-a-Lago in response to a subpoena. That claim proved untrue as FBI agents weeks later searched the home with a warrant and found roughly 100 additional documents with classified markings.

Another Trump lawyer, Christina Bobb, told investigators last fall that Corcoran had drafted the letter and asked her to sign it in her role as a designated custodian of Trump’s records.

A Justice Department investigation led by special counsel Jack Smith and his team

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March 27, 2023 by LAW

Charges Against Trump Lawyer ‘Very Likely,’ Colleagues Warn Donald
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Since early January, several of Donald Trump‘s close advisers, including some of his own lawyers, have met with the former president to deliver him the same stark warning. In at least three meetings this year, according to two sources familiar with the matter, legal and political counselors to Trump have urged him to dump Evan Corcoran, one of the ex-president’s top attorneys in the federal probe into Trump’s handling of classified documents.

Some of the former president’s lawyers have explicitly told Trump that, based on information they have privately reviewed, they believe the Department of Justice has a strong case against Corcoran, arguing charges — including potentially for obstruction of justice — are “very likely,” the sources said. These advisers have argued that if the Justice Department indeed does come for Corcoran, it’s imperative for Trump to distance himself to avoid being dragged into possible further legal jeopardy by his own attorney.

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Trump, the sources say, sounds “receptive” to their perspective. However, as of mid-February, it appeared he wasn’t as receptive as they had hoped: Corcoran is still on Trump’s legal team.

Corcoran and representatives for Trump did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s requests for comment.

During a grand juryappearance in January, prosecutors reportedly asked Corcoran questions about events prior to last year’s FBI raid of Trump’s Florida residence of Mar-a-Lago, according to CNN. Corcoran drafted, and fellow Trump attorney Christina Bobb signed, a statement attesting to the government that a “diligent search” had been conducted of the Florida residence in May of 2022 — a statement which the subsequent discovery of classified material during the FBI search has been undermined . Corcoran reportedly declined to answer some questions based on his belief that

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February 22, 2023 by LAW

No Classified Materials Found In Search Of Biden’s Home, Lawyer Says

UPDATES: 12:55 pm — President Joe Biden’s personal attorney announced Wednesday that FBI agents found no classified documents at the leader’s Rehoboth, Delaware, home.

“The DOJ’s planned search of the President’s Rehoboth residences, conducted in coordination with the President’s attorneys, has concluded. The search was conducted from 8:30 AM to noon. No documents with classified markings were found,” Biden’s attorney Bob Bauer said in a statement.

They did take “some materials and handwritten notes that appeared related to his time as Vice President,” he added.

FBI agents are conducting a “planned search” of President Joe Biden’s Rehoboth, Delaware, home for classified documents, the president’s lawyer Bob Bauer said Wednesday.

“Today, with the President’s full support and cooperation, the DOJ is conducting a planned search of his home in Rehoboth, Delaware,” Bauer said in a statement.

Bauer said Biden agreed to follow the Justice Department’s standard policy to not provide “advance public notice” for the search.

“The search today is a further step in a thorough and timely DOJ process we will continue to fully support and facilitate,” Bauer said, adding that further updates will be provided once the agents conclude their work on the property.

The White House previously said it had found no classified records at Biden’s Rehoboth home, according to NBC News. Biden purchased the home in 2017, according to the local Cape Gazettewhen he was no longer vice president.

Classified files have been found in Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home and a former office in Washington.

The FBI in November searched the office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, according to The Associated Press, at least a week after Biden’s team notified the National Archives that his lawyers had found a small number of classified documents in a locked closet. It’s unclear if

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February 4, 2023 by LAW

Five more classified documents found at Biden’s Wilmington home, lawyer says

Five more classified documents from President Biden’s time as vice president were found at his Wilmington, Del., residence on Thursday, the White House said Saturday.

Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, said in a statement that one classified document was found in a room adjacent to Biden’s garage on Wednesday night. The lawyers who discovered that the document did not have security clearances and paused their search as a result, Sauber said.

Sauber, who has a security clearance, arrived Thursday night to facilitate the transfer of documents to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

“While I was transferring it to the DOJ officials who accompanied me, five additional pages with classification markings were discovered among the material with it, for a total of six pages,” Sauber said. “The DOJ officials with me immediately took possession of them.”

The discovery of five more documents brings the total number of materials with classified markings found at Biden’s old office and Wilmington home to roughly two dozen. Biden arrived at his Wilmington residence on Friday night. He is set to spend the weekend there, as he does frequently.

Sauber referred further questions to the special counsel who was appointed Thursday to review the matter moving forward, and he reiterated that the White House would cooperate with the special counsel.

“The President’s lawyers have acted immediately and voluntarily to provide the Penn Biden documents to the Archives and the Wilmington documents to DOJ,” Sauber said in a statement. “We have now publicly released specific details about the documents identified, how they were identified, and where they were found.”

Attorneys for the president found roughly 10 documents with classified markings on Nov. 2 at a Washington, DC, office Biden used from 2017 to 2019 while working as an honorary professor for the University of

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January 18, 2023 by LAW

Biden stored additional classified docs at Delaware home

Five more pages of classified documents were discovered in President Biden’s Delaware home this week, the White House admitted Saturday — adding further fuel to the furor surrounding his careless and “alarming” handling of government secrets.

The additional pages were found Thursday – hours after the White House acknowledged a single page of classified material had been found in Biden’s personal library, near the garage where he had stored other restricted documents dating from his time as vice president.

With the new discovery, a total of six classified pages have emerged from Biden’s Wilmington home — while the total number of sensitive documents found in the home’s garage and in the office of his DC think tank remains unknown.

White House special counsel Richard Sauber said he found the newly disclosed material in “a room adjacent to the garage” of Biden’s home when Department of Justice officials arrived to retrieve the single classified page.

“While I was transferring it to the DOJ officials who accompanied me, five additional pages with classification markings were discovered among the material with it, for a total of six pages,” Sauber said. “The DOJ officials with me immediately took possession of them.”

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The additional pages were discovered after hours the White House acknowledged a single page of classified material had been found in Biden’s personal library.
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Biden’s lawyers halted a search of the room Wednesday evening when the single classified page was found – because the aides who were conducting the sweep lacked security clearances to lay eyes on anything else they might find, Sauber said.

Republicans scorched the president over the slow-rolling scandal.

“Joe Biden and the Biden Crime Family are corrupt and significant threats to national security,” House Republican conference chair Rep. Elise Stefanik told The Post.

“The fact that federal

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January 17, 2023 by LAW

Biden selects top Democratic attorney as personal lawyer in classified documents probe

WASHINGTON– President Joe Biden is selecting top Democratic attorney Bob Bauer to serve as his personal lawyer following the Justice Department’s investigation into the handling of classified documents found at his office and Delaware home, according to Reuters and POLITICO. The White House announced last week that a “small number” of government records were discovered by the president’s personal lawyers at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, DC and in a storage space in the garage of his Wilmington, Delaware home.

The discovery prompted Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to review Biden’s handling of classified documents. Garland also appointed a special counsel in November to oversee investigations related to former President Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Florida estate.

President Joe Biden on Jan. 12, 2023.

President Joe Biden on Jan. 12, 2023.

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House Republicans announced Friday the plan to investigate Biden’s handling of the documents.

Bauer previously served as White House Counsel to President Barack Obama during the former president’s first term. He also served as Obama’s personal lawyer when former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was charged with corruption for soliciting money to fill Obama’s empty Senate seat after the 2008 presidential election. Former President Donald Trump later commuted Blagojevich‘s sentence in 2020.

During Obama’s two presidential bids, Bauer served as general counsel to Obama’s campaign organization.

Biden chose Bauer in 2021 to serve as co-chair of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United Stateswhich is composed of experts to analyze the Supreme Court reform.

Bauer currently serves as a professor in residence at the New York University School of Law where he is the co-director of NYU Law’s Legislative and

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January 16, 2023 by LAW

US attorney general names special counsel to weigh charges against Trump | Donald Trump

The US attorney general Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel to determine whether Donald Trump should face criminal charges stemming from investigations into the former’s president’s alleged mishandling of national security materials and his role in the 6 January attack on the US Capitol.

The politically explosive move comes just three days after Trump announced he is running for the White House yet again, despite a disappointing Republican performance in the midterm elections, especially among candidates backed by the ex-president.

“Based on recent developments, including the former president’s announcement that he is a candidate for president in the next election, and the sitting president’s stated intention to be a candidate as well, I have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint a special counsel,” Garland told a press conference on Friday.

Garland named Jack Smith, a veteran prosecutor and top former justice department official, to oversee the investigations into Trump as the justice department examines his role in retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence and in the effort to subvert the 2020 election.

The appointment of a special counsel, delivered by Garland at justice department headquarters in Washington DC, reflects the sensitivity of the justice department overseeing the two most hazardous criminal investigations into Trump, and an increased possibility of charges being brought over either matter.

Special counsels are semi-independent prosecutors who can be installed for high-profile investigations when there are conflicts of interest, or the appearance of such conflicts, and provide a mechanism for the justice department to insulate itself from political considerations.

Trump predictably attacked the move within hours, and complained about an “appalling decision today by the egregiously corrupt Biden administration” at a black-tie event Friday night after earlier telling Fox News’s digital arm: “It is not acceptable. It is so

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November 24, 2022 by ATTORNEY

Attorney General Garland names special counsel in Trump Mar-a-Lago and Jan. 6 probes

Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed John L. “Jack” Smith as special counsel to oversee the entirety of the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into the alleged unlawful retention of national defense information at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, as well as key aspects of its probe into the events of Jan 6.

Trump’s announcement Tuesday that is running for president for a third time created a conflict of interest and triggered the appointment of a special counsel, according to the DOJ special counsel guidelines.

In his appointment order, Garland says Smith “is authorized to conduct the ongoing investigation into whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with attempts to interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification of the Electoral College vote held on January 6, 2021.”

PHOTO: Attorney General Merrick Garland announces the appointment of Jack Smith as a special counsel for the investigations of former President Donald Trump, in the briefing room of the Justice Department in Washington, Nov. 18, 2022.

US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that he is appointing Jack Smith as a special counsel for the investigations of former President Donald Trump, in the briefing room of the US Justice Department in Washington, Nov. 18, 2022.

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Smith was further instructed to conduct the investigation into national defense information found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, according to the order, “as well as any matters that arise or may arise directly” from that investigation.

Smith “is authorized to prosecute federal crimes arising from the investigation of these matters,” Garland’s appointment order states. “The Special Counsel is also authorized to refer to the appropriate United States Attorney discrete prosecutions that may arise from the Special Counsel’s investigation.”

“The Department of Justice has long recognized that in certain extraordinary cases. It is in the public interest to appoint a special prosecutor to independently manage an investigation and prosecution based on recent developments, including the former president’s announcement that he is a candidate for

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November 21, 2022 by ATTORNEY
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