Washington — The Justice Department filed a 36-page response late Tuesday night to former President Donald Trump’s request that a federal judge appoint a third party to review records seized from his Florida residence. The government alleges “obstructive conduct” occurred at Mar-a-Lago after Trump’s legal team allegedly tried to withhold or remove certain records from investigators in the months leading up to the Aug. 8 investigation. In the filing, federal prosecutors argued that Trump’s request for a special master to review records seized in the probe “fails for multiple, independent reasons” and accused the former president of making “wide-ranging baseless allegations” against the administration of USA. in the motion he filed last week.
The appointment of a special master, they said, “is unnecessary and would significantly harm important government interests, including national security interests.” Trump has yet to respond to the Justice Department’s filing, and he and his legal team have until 8 p.m. Wednesday to submit their own response to the court. Among the files submitted to the court is a redacted FBI photo — taken during the Aug. 8 search at Mar-a-Lago, the Justice Department said — of files recovered from a container in Trump’s office that include covers for classified information marked “SECRET//SCI” and “TOP SECRET//SCI.” The documents are placed next to a container with a framed Time magazine cover, among other items. Visible on the covers is the message “Contains sensitive partition information up to HCS-P/SI/TK.” Federal prosecutors told the court that in some cases, “even FBI counterintelligence personnel and DOJ attorneys conducting the review” of records seized in this month’s investigation required additional authorizations before they could review certain documents, which indicates that the files were extremely sensitive. Investigators are looking into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, specifically the files he moved from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago residence when he left office in January 2021, as well as possible obstruction of justice. The Justice Department revealed Friday that earlier this year, investigators found 184 unique classified documents — including 67 documents marked confidential, 92 documents marked secret and 25 documents classified top secret — in material originally collected by the National Top and Archives from Trump in the media. -January. The Archives later referred the matter to the Department of Justice for further consideration. In their latest filing, federal prosecutors said that during its investigation, the FBI “developed evidence” indicating that in addition to the 15 boxes recovered from the Archives in mid-January, “dozens of additional boxes” remained that may have contained classified information at Mar-a-Lago. To retrieve these additional classified records, the Justice Department obtained a grand jury subpoena, and on June 3, three FBI agents and a Justice Department attorney visited Mar-a-Lago to obtain the materials, according to the filing of Tuesday. Officials received from Trump’s representatives a “single Redweld envelope double-wrapped in tape,” prosecutors said. Trump previously claimed he “voluntarily” accepted the subpoena and later invited investigators to Florida for the June 3 meeting. According to the Justice Department’s response, an unidentified person described as the “custodian of records” for Trump’s post-presidential office provided federal law enforcement with a signed certification letter on June 3 that said a “diligent search” was conducted on boxes that had been moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago and that “any and all” documents responsive to the grand jury subpoena were turned over. Records moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago were stored in a single location, a Trump lawyer present June 3 told federal officials: a warehouse on the property, the Justice Department said in its response. A preliminary examination of the documents conducted by the FBI revealed that the dossier contained “38 unique documents that were classified, including 5 documents marked CONFIDENTIAL, 16 documents marked SECRET, and 17 documents marked TOP SECRET.” “The former president’s attorney has offered no explanation as to why the boxes of government records, including 38 classified documents, remained at the facility nearly five months after the Fifteen Boxes were produced and nearly a year and a half after the administration ended,” they told the court the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice. However, after the June 3 meeting at Mar-a-Lago, the FBI, according to Response, claims to have uncovered “multiple sources of evidence” indicating that more classified documents remained at the property and that the warehouse search “will not they have disclosed all the classified documents at the facility.” Prosecutors added, “the government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from storage and that efforts were likely made to obstruct the government’s investigation.” In that context, the Justice Department sought the search warrant from a federal judge earlier this month, prosecutors said. During the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago, federal agents seized 33 boxes, containers or “evidence” containing more than 100 classified files, including information classified at the “highest levels,” according to the filing. Three classified documents were reportedly found in offices in Trump’s “Office 45” and also obtained by the FBI. Of the items seized by federal agents, 13 boxes or containers had classified documents, some of which contained color covers showing their status — a photo of which was submitted to the court in a supplemental filing. “That the FBI, within hours, discovered twice as many classified documents than the ‘diligent investigation’ that the former president’s counsel and other representatives had weeks to conduct casts serious doubt on the statements made in the June 3 certification and questions the extent of cooperation in this matter,” the filing states. After a search warrant was executed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort earlier this month, the former president filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to appoint a special master to review the materials and filter out any privileged or irrelevant documents that were not within the scope of the warrant approved by the court. Last week, Judge Aileen Cannon of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida asked the Justice Department to explain its position on Trump’s request, setting a deadline of Tuesday for the administration to respond. He also ordered the department to submit a more detailed list identifying all property seized during the execution of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, although that document, also due Tuesday, was to be sealed . In an order issued Saturday, before the Justice Department responded to Trump’s proposal, Cannon announced her “preliminary intent” to appoint a special master, though her decision was not final. A hearing on Trump’s request is scheduled for Thursday afternoon. On Monday, prosecutors told a separate court that investigators had already completed their search for potentially privileged information and found a “limited” set of documents that may be considered protected under the attorney-client privilege. For his part, the former president has denied wrongdoing and claimed without evidence that the investigation is a politically motivated attack as he prepares for a possible presidential bid in 2024. Trump has also argued that he has the authority to declassify records if and the Justice Department said Tuesday that its representatives “never confirmed that the former president had declassified the documents or that he had claimed executive privilege.”

title: “The Justice Department Alleges Obstructive Conduct Occurred At Mar A Lago Following A Request For Classified Documents. Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-05” author: “Wanda Padilla”

Washington — The Justice Department filed a 36-page response late Tuesday night to former President Donald Trump’s request that a federal judge appoint a third party to review records seized from his Florida residence. The government alleges “obstructive conduct” occurred at Mar-a-Lago after Trump’s legal team allegedly tried to withhold or remove certain records from investigators in the months leading up to the Aug. 8 investigation. In the filing, federal prosecutors argued that Trump’s request for a special master to review records seized in the probe “fails for multiple, independent reasons” and accused the former president of making “wide-ranging baseless allegations” against the administration of USA. in the motion he filed last week.
The appointment of a special master, they said, “is unnecessary and would significantly harm important government interests, including national security interests.” Trump has yet to respond to the Justice Department’s filing, and he and his legal team have until 8 p.m. Wednesday to submit their own response to the court. Among the files submitted to the court is a redacted FBI photo — taken during the Aug. 8 search at Mar-a-Lago, the Justice Department said — of files recovered from a container in Trump’s office that include covers for classified information marked “SECRET//SCI” and “TOP SECRET//SCI.” The documents are placed next to a container with a framed Time magazine cover, among other items. Visible on the covers is the message “Contains sensitive partition information up to HCS-P/SI/TK.” Federal prosecutors told the court that in some cases, “even FBI counterintelligence personnel and DOJ attorneys conducting the review” of records seized in this month’s investigation required additional authorizations before they could review certain documents, which indicates that the files were extremely sensitive. Investigators are looking into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, specifically the files he moved from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago residence when he left office in January 2021, as well as possible obstruction of justice. The Justice Department revealed Friday that earlier this year, investigators found 184 unique classified documents — including 67 documents marked confidential, 92 documents marked secret and 25 documents classified top secret — in material originally collected by the National Top and Archives from Trump in the media. -January. The Archives later referred the matter to the Department of Justice for further consideration. In their latest filing, federal prosecutors said that during its investigation, the FBI “developed evidence” indicating that in addition to the 15 boxes recovered from the Archives in mid-January, “dozens of additional boxes” remained that may have contained classified information at Mar-a-Lago. To retrieve these additional classified records, the Justice Department obtained a grand jury subpoena, and on June 3, three FBI agents and a Justice Department attorney visited Mar-a-Lago to obtain the materials, according to the filing of Tuesday. Officials received from Trump’s representatives a “single Redweld envelope double-wrapped in tape,” prosecutors said. Trump previously claimed he “voluntarily” accepted the subpoena and later invited investigators to Florida for the June 3 meeting. According to the Justice Department’s response, an unidentified person described as the “custodian of records” for Trump’s post-presidential office provided federal law enforcement with a signed certification letter on June 3 that said a “diligent search” was conducted on boxes that had been moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago and that “any and all” documents responsive to the grand jury subpoena were turned over. Records moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago were stored in a single location, a Trump lawyer present June 3 told federal officials: a warehouse on the property, the Justice Department said in its response. A preliminary examination of the documents conducted by the FBI revealed that the dossier contained “38 unique documents that were classified, including 5 documents marked CONFIDENTIAL, 16 documents marked SECRET, and 17 documents marked TOP SECRET.” “The former president’s attorney has offered no explanation as to why the boxes of government records, including 38 classified documents, remained at the facility nearly five months after the Fifteen Boxes were produced and nearly a year and a half after the administration ended,” they told the court the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice. However, after the June 3 meeting at Mar-a-Lago, the FBI, according to Response, claims to have uncovered “multiple sources of evidence” indicating that more classified documents remained at the property and that the warehouse search “will not they have disclosed all the classified documents at the facility.” Prosecutors added, “the government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from storage and that efforts were likely made to obstruct the government’s investigation.” In that context, the Justice Department sought the search warrant from a federal judge earlier this month, prosecutors said. During the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago, federal agents seized 33 boxes, containers or “evidence” containing more than 100 classified files, including information classified at the “highest levels,” according to the filing. Three classified documents were reportedly found in offices in Trump’s “Office 45” and also obtained by the FBI. Of the items seized by federal agents, 13 boxes or containers had classified documents, some of which contained color covers showing their status — a photo of which was submitted to the court in a supplemental filing. “That the FBI, within hours, discovered twice as many classified documents than the ‘diligent investigation’ that the former president’s counsel and other representatives had weeks to conduct casts serious doubt on the statements made in the June 3 certification and questions the extent of cooperation in this matter,” the filing states. After a search warrant was executed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort earlier this month, the former president filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to appoint a special master to review the materials and filter out any privileged or irrelevant documents that were not within the scope of the warrant approved by the court. Last week, Judge Aileen Cannon of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida asked the Justice Department to explain its position on Trump’s request, setting a deadline of Tuesday for the administration to respond. He also ordered the department to submit a more detailed list identifying all property seized during the execution of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, although that document, also due Tuesday, was to be sealed . In an order issued Saturday, before the Justice Department responded to Trump’s proposal, Cannon announced her “preliminary intent” to appoint a special master, though her decision was not final. A hearing on Trump’s request is scheduled for Thursday afternoon. On Monday, prosecutors told a separate court that investigators had already completed their search for potentially privileged information and found a “limited” set of documents that may be considered protected under the attorney-client privilege. For his part, the former president has denied wrongdoing and claimed without evidence that the investigation is a politically motivated attack as he prepares for a possible presidential bid in 2024. Trump has also argued that he has the authority to declassify records if and the Justice Department said Tuesday that its representatives “never confirmed that the former president had declassified the documents or that he had claimed executive privilege.”

title: “The Justice Department Alleges Obstructive Conduct Occurred At Mar A Lago Following A Request For Classified Documents. Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-27” author: “Henry Hernandez”

Washington — The Justice Department filed a 36-page response late Tuesday night to former President Donald Trump’s request that a federal judge appoint a third party to review records seized from his Florida residence. The government alleges “obstructive conduct” occurred at Mar-a-Lago after Trump’s legal team allegedly tried to withhold or remove certain records from investigators in the months leading up to the Aug. 8 investigation. In the filing, federal prosecutors argued that Trump’s request for a special master to review records seized in the probe “fails for multiple, independent reasons” and accused the former president of making “wide-ranging baseless allegations” against the administration of USA. in the motion he filed last week.
The appointment of a special master, they said, “is unnecessary and would significantly harm important government interests, including national security interests.” Trump has yet to respond to the Justice Department’s filing, and he and his legal team have until 8 p.m. Wednesday to submit their own response to the court. Among the files submitted to the court is a redacted FBI photo — taken during the Aug. 8 search at Mar-a-Lago, the Justice Department said — of files recovered from a container in Trump’s office that include covers for classified information marked “SECRET//SCI” and “TOP SECRET//SCI.” The documents are placed next to a container with a framed Time magazine cover, among other items. Visible on the covers is the message “Contains sensitive partition information up to HCS-P/SI/TK.” Federal prosecutors told the court that in some cases, “even FBI counterintelligence personnel and DOJ attorneys conducting the review” of records seized in this month’s investigation required additional authorizations before they could review certain documents, which indicates that the files were extremely sensitive. Investigators are looking into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, specifically the files he moved from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago residence when he left office in January 2021, as well as possible obstruction of justice. The Justice Department revealed Friday that earlier this year, investigators found 184 unique classified documents — including 67 documents marked confidential, 92 documents marked secret and 25 documents classified top secret — in material originally collected by the National Top and Archives from Trump in the media. -January. The Archives later referred the matter to the Department of Justice for further consideration. In their latest filing, federal prosecutors said that during its investigation, the FBI “developed evidence” indicating that in addition to the 15 boxes recovered from the Archives in mid-January, “dozens of additional boxes” remained that may have contained classified information at Mar-a-Lago. To retrieve these additional classified records, the Justice Department obtained a grand jury subpoena, and on June 3, three FBI agents and a Justice Department attorney visited Mar-a-Lago to obtain the materials, according to the filing of Tuesday. Officials received from Trump’s representatives a “single Redweld envelope double-wrapped in tape,” prosecutors said. Trump previously claimed he “voluntarily” accepted the subpoena and later invited investigators to Florida for the June 3 meeting. According to the Justice Department’s response, an unidentified person described as the “custodian of records” for Trump’s post-presidential office provided federal law enforcement with a signed certification letter on June 3 that said a “diligent search” was conducted on boxes that had been moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago and that “any and all” documents responsive to the grand jury subpoena were turned over. Records moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago were stored in a single location, a Trump lawyer present June 3 told federal officials: a warehouse on the property, the Justice Department said in its response. A preliminary examination of the documents conducted by the FBI revealed that the dossier contained “38 unique documents that were classified, including 5 documents marked CONFIDENTIAL, 16 documents marked SECRET, and 17 documents marked TOP SECRET.” “The former president’s attorney has offered no explanation as to why the boxes of government records, including 38 classified documents, remained at the facility nearly five months after the Fifteen Boxes were produced and nearly a year and a half after the administration ended,” they told the court the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice. However, after the June 3 meeting at Mar-a-Lago, the FBI, according to Response, claims to have uncovered “multiple sources of evidence” indicating that more classified documents remained at the property and that the warehouse search “will not they have disclosed all the classified documents at the facility.” Prosecutors added, “the government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from storage and that efforts were likely made to obstruct the government’s investigation.” In that context, the Justice Department sought the search warrant from a federal judge earlier this month, prosecutors said. During the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago, federal agents seized 33 boxes, containers or “evidence” containing more than 100 classified files, including information classified at the “highest levels,” according to the filing. Three classified documents were reportedly found in offices in Trump’s “Office 45” and also obtained by the FBI. Of the items seized by federal agents, 13 boxes or containers had classified documents, some of which contained color covers showing their status — a photo of which was submitted to the court in a supplemental filing. “That the FBI, within hours, discovered twice as many classified documents than the ‘diligent investigation’ that the former president’s counsel and other representatives had weeks to conduct casts serious doubt on the statements made in the June 3 certification and questions the extent of cooperation in this matter,” the filing states. After a search warrant was executed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort earlier this month, the former president filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to appoint a special master to review the materials and filter out any privileged or irrelevant documents that were not within the scope of the warrant approved by the court. Last week, Judge Aileen Cannon of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida asked the Justice Department to explain its position on Trump’s request, setting a deadline of Tuesday for the administration to respond. He also ordered the department to submit a more detailed list identifying all property seized during the execution of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, although that document, also due Tuesday, was to be sealed . In an order issued Saturday, before the Justice Department responded to Trump’s proposal, Cannon announced her “preliminary intent” to appoint a special master, though her decision was not final. A hearing on Trump’s request is scheduled for Thursday afternoon. On Monday, prosecutors told a separate court that investigators had already completed their search for potentially privileged information and found a “limited” set of documents that may be considered protected under the attorney-client privilege. For his part, the former president has denied wrongdoing and claimed without evidence that the investigation is a politically motivated attack as he prepares for a possible presidential bid in 2024. Trump has also argued that he has the authority to declassify records if and the Justice Department said Tuesday that its representatives “never confirmed that the former president had declassified the documents or that he had claimed executive privilege.”

title: “The Justice Department Alleges Obstructive Conduct Occurred At Mar A Lago Following A Request For Classified Documents. Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-26” author: “Mary Freed”

Washington — The Justice Department filed a 36-page response late Tuesday night to former President Donald Trump’s request that a federal judge appoint a third party to review records seized from his Florida residence. The government alleges “obstructive conduct” occurred at Mar-a-Lago after Trump’s legal team allegedly tried to withhold or remove certain records from investigators in the months leading up to the Aug. 8 investigation. In the filing, federal prosecutors argued that Trump’s request for a special master to review records seized in the probe “fails for multiple, independent reasons” and accused the former president of making “wide-ranging baseless allegations” against the administration of USA. in the motion he filed last week.
The appointment of a special master, they said, “is unnecessary and would significantly harm important government interests, including national security interests.” Trump has yet to respond to the Justice Department’s filing, and he and his legal team have until 8 p.m. Wednesday to submit their own response to the court. Among the files submitted to the court is a redacted FBI photo — taken during the Aug. 8 search at Mar-a-Lago, the Justice Department said — of files recovered from a container in Trump’s office that include covers for classified information marked “SECRET//SCI” and “TOP SECRET//SCI.” The documents are placed next to a container with a framed Time magazine cover, among other items. Visible on the covers is the message “Contains sensitive partition information up to HCS-P/SI/TK.” Federal prosecutors told the court that in some cases, “even FBI counterintelligence personnel and DOJ attorneys conducting the review” of records seized in this month’s investigation required additional authorizations before they could review certain documents, which indicates that the files were extremely sensitive. Investigators are looking into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, specifically the files he moved from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago residence when he left office in January 2021, as well as possible obstruction of justice. The Justice Department revealed Friday that earlier this year, investigators found 184 unique classified documents — including 67 documents marked confidential, 92 documents marked secret and 25 documents classified top secret — in material originally collected by the National Top and Archives from Trump in the media. -January. The Archives later referred the matter to the Department of Justice for further consideration. In their latest filing, federal prosecutors said that during its investigation, the FBI “developed evidence” indicating that in addition to the 15 boxes recovered from the Archives in mid-January, “dozens of additional boxes” remained that may have contained classified information at Mar-a-Lago. To retrieve these additional classified records, the Justice Department obtained a grand jury subpoena, and on June 3, three FBI agents and a Justice Department attorney visited Mar-a-Lago to obtain the materials, according to the filing of Tuesday. Officials received from Trump’s representatives a “single Redweld envelope double-wrapped in tape,” prosecutors said. Trump previously claimed he “voluntarily” accepted the subpoena and later invited investigators to Florida for the June 3 meeting. According to the Justice Department’s response, an unidentified person described as the “custodian of records” for Trump’s post-presidential office provided federal law enforcement with a signed certification letter on June 3 that said a “diligent search” was conducted on boxes that had been moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago and that “any and all” documents responsive to the grand jury subpoena were turned over. Records moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago were stored in a single location, a Trump lawyer present June 3 told federal officials: a warehouse on the property, the Justice Department said in its response. A preliminary examination of the documents conducted by the FBI revealed that the dossier contained “38 unique documents that were classified, including 5 documents marked CONFIDENTIAL, 16 documents marked SECRET, and 17 documents marked TOP SECRET.” “The former president’s attorney has offered no explanation as to why the boxes of government records, including 38 classified documents, remained at the facility nearly five months after the Fifteen Boxes were produced and nearly a year and a half after the administration ended,” they told the court the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice. However, after the June 3 meeting at Mar-a-Lago, the FBI, according to Response, claims to have uncovered “multiple sources of evidence” indicating that more classified documents remained at the property and that the warehouse search “will not they have disclosed all the classified documents at the facility.” Prosecutors added, “the government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from storage and that efforts were likely made to obstruct the government’s investigation.” In that context, the Justice Department sought the search warrant from a federal judge earlier this month, prosecutors said. During the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago, federal agents seized 33 boxes, containers or “evidence” containing more than 100 classified files, including information classified at the “highest levels,” according to the filing. Three classified documents were reportedly found in offices in Trump’s “Office 45” and also obtained by the FBI. Of the items seized by federal agents, 13 boxes or containers had classified documents, some of which contained color covers showing their status — a photo of which was submitted to the court in a supplemental filing. “That the FBI, within hours, discovered twice as many classified documents than the ‘diligent investigation’ that the former president’s counsel and other representatives had weeks to conduct casts serious doubt on the statements made in the June 3 certification and questions the extent of cooperation in this matter,” the filing states. After a search warrant was executed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort earlier this month, the former president filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to appoint a special master to review the materials and filter out any privileged or irrelevant documents that were not within the scope of the warrant approved by the court. Last week, Judge Aileen Cannon of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida asked the Justice Department to explain its position on Trump’s request, setting a deadline of Tuesday for the administration to respond. He also ordered the department to submit a more detailed list identifying all property seized during the execution of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, although that document, also due Tuesday, was to be sealed . In an order issued Saturday, before the Justice Department responded to Trump’s proposal, Cannon announced her “preliminary intent” to appoint a special master, though her decision was not final. A hearing on Trump’s request is scheduled for Thursday afternoon. On Monday, prosecutors told a separate court that investigators had already completed their search for potentially privileged information and found a “limited” set of documents that may be considered protected under the attorney-client privilege. For his part, the former president has denied wrongdoing and claimed without evidence that the investigation is a politically motivated attack as he prepares for a possible presidential bid in 2024. Trump has also argued that he has the authority to declassify records if and the Justice Department said Tuesday that its representatives “never confirmed that the former president had declassified the documents or that he had claimed executive privilege.”