The investigation into the Trump Mar-a-Lago dossier case has made a significant development as a third man, Carlos de Oliveira, is now facing charges.
Special counsel Jack Smith announced Thursday that he has filed additional charges against former President Donald Trump in the ongoing trial over the mishandling of classified documents from his time in the White House. The latest indictment alleges that two Trump employees, his aide Walt Nota and Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker Carlos de Oliveira, used security camera footage from the resort after a Justice Department subpoena. Tried to delete
According to the indictment, D’Oliveira notified the resort’s director of IT that “the boss” wanted to delete the server. Trump now faces another charge of knowingly withholding national defense information and two additional counts, bringing the total number of criminal charges against him to 40.
The indictment alleges that Trump knowingly withheld a top-secret document that JEE News reported on military activities in Iran. The document was discussed by Trump during a recorded meeting with biographers in July 2021 in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Both Nota and D’Oliveira also face new charges in connection with the case. De Oliveira was charged with lying to the FBI about moving the box to Trump’s golf club.
As previously reported by JEE News, surveillance footage provided to the Justice Department showed Nota and D’Oliveira moving boxes of documents around Mar-a-Lago to Trump’s lawyer, Evan Corcoran. , began searching for classified documents. Although Corcoran turned over 38 classified documents to them during the search, the FBI discovered more than 100 additional classified documents during their search at Mar-a-Lago in August.
The Justice Department suspects that “official records may have been secretly removed from the storage room.”
Trump and Nota were already indicted last month and have both pleaded not guilty.
De Oliveira spoke to investigators earlier this year, and his phone has been seized for further testing. Lawyers for Nota and D’Oliveira both declined to comment on the latest development.
In a statement, Trump’s spokeswoman dismissed the allegations as “nothing more than a desperate and unsuccessful attempt by the Biden crime family and their Justice Department to harass President Trump and those around him.” “
Separately, Trump’s defense attorneys and Smith held a meeting in Washington, D.C., to discuss the investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Trump’s team has not been given specific guidance on the timing of possible indictments.
A grand jury in Washington is still examining evidence related to the special counsel’s investigation into election coup attempts by Trump and his allies. Carlos de Oliveira has been summoned to appear in federal court in Miami on July 31 at 10:30 a.m.
