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Mar-a-Lago IT manager implicates Trump in classified files case
"Yuscil Taveras, an IT director identified as Trump Employee 4..."They have penetrated [everything]. [BBC] Former US President Donald Trump has been implicated by one of his employees in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, according to a court filing. Yuscil Taveras, an IT director identified as Trump Employee 4 in legal documents, changed his testimony after switching lawyers, say prosecutors. He now accuses Mr Trump and two aides of "efforts to delete security camera footage", says the filing. The 77-year-old ex-president faces 40 charges in the case. Mr Trump, his close personal aide Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker Carlos De Oliveira have all pleaded not guilty. The former president is accused of mishandling the storage of sensitive files at his Florida estate and trying to cover up the alleged crime by deleting security footage. The court document filed on Tuesday says Mr Taveras changed lawyers after special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the case, notified him he was being investigated for perjury. His former lawyer also represents Mr Trump's co-defendant Mr Nauta. During grand jury testimony in March this year, Mr Taveras "repeatedly denied or claimed not to recall any contacts or conversations about the security footage at Mar-a-Lago". Prosecutors said they obtained evidence that Mr De Oliveira had asked Mr Taveras to delete the CCTV footage after investigators demanded the video as they tracked the movement of boxes containing the documents inside the resort. Related: Mar-a-Lago: 2023-08-13 DOJ eyeing Americans ‘like ATMs,' spending over $6 billion to aid civil asset forfeitures, watchdog says Mar-a-Lago: 2023-08-09 Sebastian Gorka: Jack Smith's Hidden Victims Mar-a-Lago: 2023-08-05 Jack Smith May Have Doomed His Case Against Trump Posted by: Skidmark 2023-08-23 |
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