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[1/2] Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 29, 2023. Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, was accused of trying to delete security camera footage and lying to investigators. Prosecutors first charged Trump and his aide Walt Nauta in June in the case, alleging Trump haphazardly stored hundreds of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home and enlisted staff to hide them from investigators. De Oliveira and Nauta also moved boxes of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago to conceal them from the FBI and Trump's lawyers, the indictment said. Trump has pleaded not guilty, saying the cases against him are part of a politically motivated "witch hunt."

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☆ Opinion: The Donald Trump and Hunter Biden surprises
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

So it was remarkable Wednesday when the deal for Hunter Biden to plead guilty to two misdemeanors for his failure to pay taxes on time fell apart in a federal courtroom after the judge raised questions about it. Special counsel Jack Smith unexpectedly added a major allegation to the indictment charging former President Donald Trump with mishandling classified documents. The Trump and Hunter Biden developments underlined how America’s political climate is being shaped by what happens in the courts. This addition, an alleged surveillance tape conspiracy, almost reads like a spy novel.”“It features Trump employee and co-defendant Walt Nauta’s surprise clandestine trip to Florida. To W. James Antle III, it was the Hunter Biden plea deal snafu that brought to the forefront the “powerful split screen that drives” how Republican voters see the emerging 2024 presidential race.

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☆ Yuscil Taveras: Mar-a-Lago employee overseeing surveillance cameras, previously received target letter in Trump classified documents probe:
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Zachary Cohen Kaitlan Collins Katelyn Polantz | Zachary Cohen | Kaitlan Collins | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Taveras also met with investigators following the initial indictment in the classified documents case overseen by special counsel Jack Smith, sources said. A lawyer for Taveras previously declined to comment to CNN. The updated indictment, which adds major accusations against Trump and a new co-defendant to the case, refers to Taveras as “Trump Employee 4,” CNN previously reported. Smith’s team had previously heard testimony about odd conversations between Taveras, Nauta and De Oliveira regarding surveillance footage. After receiving the target letter, Taveras changed lawyers because his attorney, Stan Woodward, also represented Nauta, which presented a conflict, sources said.

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☆ Trump team creating legal defense fund
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Kristen Holmes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump’s team is creating a legal defense fund to help offset some of the enormous bills incurred as his legal troubles mount, two sources familiar with the planning told CNN. The new fund will be called the Patriot Legal Defense Fund Inc., according to the sources, and will be led by Trump associate and adviser Michael Glassner. The new charges included allegations that Trump and his employees attempted to delete Mar-a-Lago security footage sought by the grand jury. Video Ad Feedback Hear Michael Cohen's advice to indicted Trump aide 02:12 - Source: CNNEarlier this year, Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on more than 30 counts related to business fraud. Trump has expanded his legal team in light of the mounting legal battles he is facing.

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☆ ‘The family feels like he got trapped’: How a low-profile Mar-a-Lago employee got tangled up in Trump’s legal problems
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Alayna Treene Zachary Cohen Kristen Holmes Randi Kaye Christie Johnson | Alayna Treene | Zachary Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The 56-year-old De Oliveira lives in an apartment in a middle class townhome community in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, about 20 minutes north of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club. Almeida told CNN he believed that De Oliveria has worked at Mar-a-Lago for more than 20 years. Some members of his family, “couldn’t even sleep last night with all of this going on,” one family member told CNN. “He isn’t familiar with how the government here works and he was probably just being loyal to his boss who is paying his bills,” the person told CNN. Asked about the Trump indictment, Brion said, “I can’t even imagine how he could be implicated in that mess.”

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☆ 'These are my tapes': Trump rips new charges in classified docs case
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump on Friday defended the handling of surveillance footage at his Florida home that is at the center of major new criminal charges in the federal case over the former president's retention of classified documents. A superseding indictment, filed Thursday evening in federal court in southern Florida, added three criminal counts against Trump on top of the 37 he already faced in the classified documents case. That other employee, who is unnamed in the superseding indictment, has been identified by NBC News as Yuscil Taveras. Trump, Nauta and de Oliveira all face the two new obstruction counts related to that alleged scheme to delete the footage. Those charges carry a 20-year maximum prison term, according to the superseding indictment.

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July 28 (Reuters) - Here is a list of legal troubles facing former U.S. President Donald Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Trump said his attorneys met on Thursday with U.S. Justice Department officials, in a sign charges could come soon. Trump said on his Truth Social platform that the Department of Justice had not told his attorneys when action was likely. Officials have testified that during his final months in office, Trump pressured them with false voter fraud claims. Legal experts said Trump may have violated at least three Georgia criminal laws: conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and intentional interference with performance of election duties.

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☆ The new charges in the Trump classified documents case could delay the trial 'a couple of months', a legal expert says. That could push it closer to the 2024 election.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The superseding indictment adds a third defendant and additional charges. A new defendant may push the trial date "a couple of months," a former federal prosecutor says. On Thursday, a grand jury returned a superseding indictment in the classified documents case, adding more charges, including two obstruction counts, and a third defendant. De Oliveira is expected to appear in a Miami federal court on July 31, the DOJ wrote in a press release of the superseding indictment. Trump's attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Trump now faces 40 charges in the case, after originally being indicted on 37 counts last month. His valet, Walt Nauta, is also facing new charges, and prosecutors have added a third defendant and another Trump employee, Carlos De Oliveira, to the criminal case. Prosecutors have charged Trump, Nauta and De Oliveira with obstruction over the attempt to delete the footage. The indictment also adds De Oliveira to an existing obstruction charge, claiming he conspired with Trump and Nauta to hide sensitive government documents. UNLAWFUL RETENTIONThe new indictment alleges Trump retained one more document containing national defense information than was listed in the original charges.

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CNN —The Mar-a-Lago employee referenced in the superseding indictment adding major accusations against former President Donald Trump and a new co-defendant to the case has been identified by two people close to the investigation as Yuscil Taveras, an information technology worker. Taveras oversaw the surveillance camera footage at the property. Special counsel Jack Smith’s team had previously heard testimony about odd conversations between Taveras, Walt Nauta and the new co-defendant Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager, regarding surveillance footage. Taveras is at the center of the new accusations added to the indictment, including an exchange he had with De Oliveira on June 27, 2022. According to the indictment, Trump called De Oliveira “and told De Oliveira that Trump would get De Oliveira an attorney.”He is currently represented by John Irving.

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☆ Stunning new Trump charges up the stakes of an already existential 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Remarkable new charges against Donald Trump and two associates in the classified documents case Thursday significantly deepened the ex-president’s legal plight and dragged the 2024 election further into an unprecedented legal quagmire. “It’s a stunning development,” said former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who is now a CNN legal and national security analyst. Trump responds with a new political assaultThe ex-president, whose legal strategy has become enmeshed with his campaign strategy, poured fuel on the political fire. The sudden new dimension in the classified documents case will have profound political and legal dimensions. The Florida governor was asked about the possibility of a third indictment of Trump, in reference to the 2020 election interference case.

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☆ Prosecutors blast Trump bid to discuss classified information at home with lawyers
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Council Bluffs, Iowa, July 7, 2023. Federal prosecutors in a new court filing blasted a request by Donald Trump to be allowed to discuss classified information for his criminal case in Florida at home with his defense attorneys, outside of a specially secured room. "Defendant Trump's personal residences and offices are not lawful locations for the discussion of classified information, any more than they would be for any private citizen," prosecutors wrote. The filing noted that since the end of Trump's presidency in January 2021, neither Mar-a-Lago nor his summer residence at his Bedminster, New Jersey, club have been authorized locations to store, possess or discuss classified information. Prosecutors are proposing that Judge Aileen Cannon issue a protective order that would require Trump and his lawyers only to discuss classified information with each other with a so-called SCIF, or sensitive compartmented information facility, which is designed to prevent people not authorized to hear the information from doing so.

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☆ What is a superseding indictment?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Special Counsel Jack Smith filed two new documents charges against Trump in a superseding indictment. Superseding indictments allow for additions and changes to a case in light of new evidence. A superseding indictment is a criminal complaint brought by a grand jury that changes, adds to, or replaces an original indictment in the wake of new evidence. The superseding indictment brought in the documents case this week also added a third defendant, maintenance worker Carlos De Oliveira, to the case, as well as additional charges against Trump aide Walt Nauta, who pleaded not guilty to the counts against him earlier this month. He faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York in addition to the classified documents case.

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CNN —Speaker Kevin McCarthy deflected questions about the additional charges filed Thursday against former President Donald Trump in the case alleging mishandling of classified documents during his time in the White House, instead pointing to President Joe Biden. In his latest defense of Trump, McCarthy questioned why Biden had classified documents from his time as a senator and why the president hasn’t been indicted, but would not engage on the new charges that Trump is facing. “What concerns me is you have a sitting president that has a situation like this, but even worse, that had documents, but nothing’s happened,” McCarthy told CNN’s Manu Raju. Trump, who already faced 37 criminal charges in the case, was charged with an additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two additional obstruction counts. In one recent example, CNN reported earlier this month that McCarthy told Trump in a private phone call that he personally backed the idea of expunging Trump’s two impeachments and would bring it up to the conference to gauge support, a source said.

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☆ Superseding indictment in Trump classified documents case could delay trial several months. But thinking about the election date is not a 'legitimate line of inquiry' for a prosecutor, legal expert sa
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The superseding indictment adds a third defendant and additional charges. On Thursday, a grand jury returned a superseding indictment in the classified documents case, adding more charges, including two obstruction counts, and a third defendant. De Oliveira is expected to appear in a Miami federal court on July 31, the DOJ wrote in a press release of the superseding indictment. In a notice, Jack Smith, the special counsel leading the DOJ's case, wrote that the additions in the superseding indictment "should not disturb the Court's scheduling order." Trump's attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Donald Trump was hit Thursday night with three new federal criminal charges, and a third defendant was added to the case where the former president already was accused of dozens of felonies related to retaining classified documents at his Florida residence after leaving the White House. At that time, when federal officials were seeking the return of government records they suspected of being kept at that location. Carlos de Oliveira, the third defendant added to the case against Trump and Nauta, is head of maintenance at Mar-a-Lago. The new charging document also identifies de Oliveira as the person who helped Nauta move about 30 boxes from Trump's residence to a storage room. He also allegedly told the FBI he was not involved in moving documents that officials sought, telling agents, "Never saw anything."

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He is accused alongside Trump and Walt Nauta of obstructing the investigation with the alleged bid to delete security footage at Trump’s Florida resort. Trump and Nauta pleaded not guilty to the initial round of charges Smith brought in the case last month. “There was no document,” Trump told Fox News last month. “That same day, TRUMP called DE OLIVEIRA and told DE OLIVEIRA that TRUMP would get DE OLIVEIRA an attorney,” the indictment says. It’s not yet clear how the new charges will affect the pace of the case against Trump and Nauta.

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☆ New Trump charges: Special counsel Jack Smith files additional charges in Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, records show
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Special Counsel Jack Smith charged a third defendant in the Trump classified documents case. Trump also faces two new charges of obstruction of justice and willful retention of classified documents. Trump and Nauta also now face two additional charges of obstruction of justice and willful retention of classified documents. De Oliveira helped Nauta move the boxes of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after the Department of Justice subpoenaed Trump to for the records last May, CNN reported. The new court documents allege Trump, Nauta, and De Oliveira asked another staffer to delete the footage to prevent it from being provided to a federal grand jury.

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CNN —Special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday brought additional charges against former President Donald Trump in the case alleging mishandling of classified documents from his time in the White House. New charges were also filed against Trump’s aide Nauta, and Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker De Oliveira was also added to the case. De Oliveira, 56, was charged with lying to the FBI about moving boxes with classified documents. De Oliveira was the maintenance worker who helped Nauta move boxes of classified documents around Mar-a-Lago after the Justice Department first subpoenaed Trump for classified documents last May. Justice Department officials came to Mar-a-Lago the day after Corcoran’s search, and Corcoran handed over 38 classified documents he had found.

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De Oliveira, 56, told another worker at the resort where Trump lives that "the boss" wanted security videos of the property in Florida deleted after the Justice Department subpoenaed them. Trump pleaded not guilty in Miami last month to federal charges of unlawfully retaining the classified government documents after leaving office in 2021 and obstructing justice. Prosecutors filed additional charges against another Trump aide, Walt Nauta. Nauta pleaded not guilty earlier this month to charges he helped the former president hide documents. According to the new indictment, Nauta and De Oliveira moved 64 boxes of records to Trump's residence after the Justice Department subpoenaed Trump for any classified records in May 2022.

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The updated indictment said that in late June of last year, Mr. De Oliveira went to see Mr. Taveras — who is identified only as Trump Employee 4 — and told him that “‘the boss’ wanted the server deleted,” referring to the computer server holding the security footage. “What are we going to do?” the indictment quoted Mr. De Oliveira as saying, after Mr. Taveras objected and said he would not know how and did not think he had the right to do so. A statement attributed to “the Trump campaign” with no person’s name attached called the new accusations a “desperate and flailing attempt” by President Biden’s Justice Department. The original indictment against Mr. Trump was filed last month in Florida and accused him of illegally holding on to 31 individual classified documents containing national defense information. That indictment also charged with Mr. Trump and Walt Nauta, one of his personal aides, with a conspiracy to obstruct the government’s repeated attempts to reclaim the classified material.

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☆ Read the superseding indictment against Trump that details new charges in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A superseding indictment has been filed against Trump in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. The indictment also alleges Trump and his staffers tried to delete Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage. The initial indictment, filed on June 9, accused Trump of breaking federal law by taking documents with him when he left office. Some of the documents recovered in a raid at his Mar-a-Lago resort last year were contained classified information related to national security. Prosecutors allege Trump, Nauta, and De Oliveira attempted to delete surveillance footage at Mar-a-Lago in the summer of 2022 to obstruct the investigation.

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CNN —A federal judge ordered Friday that the trial in the classified documents case that special counsel Jack Smith brought against former President Donald Trump begin in May 2024. A Trump adviser told CNN that, given the trial date is currently set for the middle of primary season, they anticipate they’ll be able to delay the trial beyond the 2024 presidential election. “Today’s order by Judge Cannon is a major setback to the DOJ’s crusade to deny President Trump a fair legal process. The extensive schedule allows President Trump and his legal team to continue fighting this empty hoax,” Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told CNN on Friday. CORRECTION: This story has been corrected to reflect that Cannon set the trial date to begin in a two-week period starting on May 20.

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☆ Judge sets Trump classified documents trial for May 2024, months before election
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Donald Trump's trial on charges of mishandling classified documents will begin on May 20, 2024, a federal judge ordered Friday. Trump last month pleaded not guilty to 37 criminal counts related to his retention of classified documents after leaving the White House in 2021 and subsequent alleged efforts to conceal them from the government. The DOJ's proposal to start the trial in December, meanwhile, "is atypically accelerated and inconsistent with ensuring a fair trial," she added. Cannon's schedule laid out dozens of procedural deadlines ahead of the spring 2024 trial. The government has until Sept. 7 to turn over relevant classified documents to the defense in discovery.

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The former president has now been indicted in Florida in the classified documents case and in New York City on charges involving hush money payments to a porn star before the 2016 election. Mr. Woodward has worked for several Jan. 6 defendants — including one convicted last year of seditious conspiracy — while also representing Walt Nauta, Mr. Trump’s co-defendant in the classified documents case, and several witnesses embroiled in the Trump-related grand jury investigations. Investigators also sought information from him in connection with an inquiry into Mr. Trump’s fund-raising off his false claims of widespread fraud affecting the election. On Thursday, Mr. Russell was asked a series of questions about his interactions with Mr. Trump before the former president’s departure from the White House, according to a person familiar with the appearance. More than once, Mr. Russell got up and left the proceedings to consult with Mr. Woodward after prosecutors asked questions related to his discussions with Mr. Trump, the person familiar with the appearance said.

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