Helping the boss hide stuff is gonna cost Carlos De Oliveira, who ain’t gonna get the same treatment as a ex-President from the Feds….Did this guy lie to the FBI and get caught?
Federal prosecutors investigating former President Donald J. Trump on charges of illegally handling classified documents unsealed charges on Thursday against a new defendant — a maintenance worker at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s private club and residence in Florida, according to court records.
The worker, Carlos De Oliveira, who is the head of maintenance at the property and also once parked cars there, was charged with conspiracy to obstruct efforts to retrieve the documents. He was joined to a pre-existing indictment filed in Florida last month accusing Mr. Trump and the aide, Walt Nauta, of a conspiracy to obstruct the government’s repeated attempts to retrieve the material.
Mr. De Oliveira’s lawyer, John Irving, declined to comment.
The charges came as Mr. Trump’s lawyers met in the Washington office of Jack Smith, the special counsel overseeing the inquiries into the former president, to discuss a target letter suggesting that the former president might soon face a second indictment related to a separate case: his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Mr. De Oliveira first came to the attention of prosecutors as they investigated the response by Mr. Trump to repeated efforts by federal officials to retrieve reams of presidential records and classified material, including national defense material, that Mr. Trump had taken with him from the White House to Mar-a-Lago…..
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Here’s a curiosity: the last sentence of para 91 in the new indictment is about a call between Trump and De Oliveira (DO). How does Smith know about it if DO is not cooperating?
Maybe DO told Smith in his interview, but in which he lied about the boxes? Or someone listening in?
The list of defendants in the Florida classified case keeps growing…..‘
Employee 4’ in Superseding Trump Indictment Identified
“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,” CNN reports.
“Taveras oversaw the surveillance camera footage at the property.”
Delay…DeLay…Delay….
The third and newest co-defendant in former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case was unable to be fully arraigned Monday after failing to secure local counsel.
Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira only heard the charges against him and received pre-trial
orders, including turning over his expired passport, after his Washington, D.C.-based attorney John Irving told the court that his client couldn’t find an attorney authorized to practice in the South Florida district, and requested an extension.
Magistrate judge Edwin Torres granted the extension to August 10, and the arraignment will take place at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Fla. Judge Shaniek Mills Maynard is expected to be the magistrate judge on duty that day, Torres said….
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