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CNN —Former President Donald Trump allegedly kept classified documents at various places in his Mar-a-Lago resort, including a public ballroom, bathroom and a bedroom. Boxes of classified documents are stored inside the Mar-a-Lago Club's White and Gold Ballroom in this photo included in Donald Trump's federal indictment. The hallway to that storage room, according to prosecutors, could be accessible from “multiple outside entrances” including the pool patio. Boxes of classified documents are stored inside the Mar-a-Lago Club's Storage Room in this photo included in Donald Trump's federal indictment. Boxes of spilled documents are seen on the floor, in this photo included in Donald Trump's federal indictment.

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On Friday, U.S. prosecutors unsealed an indictment against Trump that accused him of risking some of the country's most sensitive security secrets with his handling of unclassified documents. Soon after Trump appears in court, prosecutors will begin handing over evidence to Trump’s lawyers. That could include years of correspondence between Trump’s lawyers, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration and federal prosecutors as they haggled over the documents. At some point, Trump's lawyers are expected to file a motion to dismiss the case for a variety of reasons, including his claim that he declassified the documents before taking them. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE CASE IF TRUMP WINS THE ELECTION?

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It describes how Mr. Trump moved dozens of boxes containing sensitive documents out of the White House and into Mar-a-Lago, his home and private club in Palm Beach, Fla. A three-dimensional illustration shows the location of the Lake Room within Mar-a-Lago. Lake Room Lake Room Lake Room Boxes of documents were stored in a bathroom in the so-called Lake Room at Mar-a-Lago. Storage area Storage area Storage area Storage area Photographs show documents kept in a storage room at Mar-a-Lago. officials searched Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, they found 27 classified documents in Mr. Trump’s office, including six with the highest level of classification.

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Prosecutors have been examining any effort to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation after Trump received a subpoena in May 2022 for classified documents. Subpoenas for surveillanceAgents first subpoenaed the Trump Organization for Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage last summer, before the August search by the FBI. But as more classified documents were found through the end of last year, investigators sought more surveillance footage from the Trump Organization, sources tell CNN. Corcoran found about three dozen classified documents, and he turned them over to FBI agents the following day when investigators came to Mar-a-Lago on June 3. In March, a judge ordered Corcoran, who has recused himself from representing Trump in the Mar-a-Lago case, to provide additional testimony.

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☆ Federal prosecutors think a flooded server room at Mar-a-Lago containing surveillance footage is 'suspicious'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Walt Hickey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Federal prosecutors are investigating Trump and some members of his staff for obstruction of justice, CNN reports. One maintenance worker at Mar-a-Lago helped an aide move classified documents ahead of the August FBI search. The same worker later drained a pool and flooded a server room containing surveillance logs. The flooded room came two months after the FBI raided the residence and seized classified documents. Per CNN, prosecutors heard testimony that the IT equipment stored in the flooded room was not damaged during the flood.

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CNN —Prosecutors for special counsel Jack Smith have been asking questions in recent weeks about the handling of surveillance footage from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort after the Trump Organization received a subpoena last summer for the footage, according to multiple sources familiar with the investigation. Prosecutors are expected to ask them about the handling of the surveillance footage and Trump employees’ conversations following the subpoena, according to the sources. Calamari Sr., the executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Trump Organization, has primarily overseen security operations for Trump and his properties during his decadeslong career working for Trump. His son, Calamari Jr., is director of security for the Trump Organization. An attorney for Calamari Sr. did not respond to a request for comment.

☆ A Trump aide seen moving boxes around Mar-a-Lago before the FBI raid is a former White House staffer, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Reports identified a Trump aide who was seen moving boxes around Mar-a-Lago before the FBI raid. The footage helped to prompt the FBI's August 8 Mar-a-Lago raid. Nauta was a Navy veteran who worked as a culinary employee at the White House from White House from 2012 to 2021, CBS News reported. The Post reported that Nauta was also a White House valet, and that he moved to work as a personal aide to Trump at Mar-a-Lago after Trump left office. The Times said that Nauta is a former military aide who worked at the White House, and then left to work for Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

☆ FBI Seeks Additional Information From Two Trump Aides About Mar-a-Lago Records
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Sadie Gurman | Alex Leary | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—Federal investigators spoke to at least two aides to former President Donald Trump months before the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago resort and have sought to talk to them again in recent weeks, people familiar with the matter said, as the Justice Department examines possible obstruction of its efforts to retrieve hundreds of government and classified documents. The aides, Walt Nauta and Will Russell, are witnesses in the Justice Department’s investigation into the handling of presidential and classified records taken from the White House but aren’t formally cooperating with the probe, the people said.

☆ Aide tells FBI Trump ordered boxes moved at Mar-a-Lago - report
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a rally ahead of the midterm elections, in Mesa, Arizona, U.S., October 9, 2022. The testimony of the key witness, coupled with surveillance footage the Justice Department also obtained, represent some of the strongest known evidence to date of possible obstruction of justice by the former Republican president. The New York Times separately reported on Wednesday that Trump aide Walt Nauta was captured on security camera footage from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach moving boxes out of a storage area at the center of the investigation. The employee who was working at Mar-a-Lago was cooperating with the Justice Department and has been interviewed multiple times by federal agents, the Post reported. The Justice Department declined to comment on the Washington Post's report, and could not immediately be reached for comment on the New York Times article.

☆ A Trump aide was caught on security camera moving boxes from a Mar-a-Lago storage room before and after the DOJ subpoenaed Trump for top-secret documents: NYT
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Walt Nauta, a longtime Trump aide, was seen moving boxes out from a storage room the FBI searched. Nauta was seen moving boxes before and after the DOJ demanded top-secret files be returned in May. Intrigue has swirled around what was kept in the storage room, and whether anything was removed from it before the DOJ searched Trump's property. The Times' piece dropped hours after The Washington Post reported that Trump himself explicitly directed employees to move boxes of White House documents from the storage room. After the raid, the FBI carted off 11,000 documents from Mar-a-Lago, including some that were marked "CLASSIFIED."

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