FL - Former President Donald Trump indicted, 40 counts to classified documents and obstruction of justice, June 2023, Trial May 2024

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Donald Trump pretrial hearings begin Tuesday in Fort Pierce. Here's what we know.

The hearing will discuss how documents containing sensitive information would be handled and presented at trial.
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FORT PIERCE — Pretrial hearings for former President Donald Trump's criminal trial will take place Tuesday at the Alto Lee Adams Sr. Courthouseon U.S. 1 at Orange Avenue.

The 2 p.m. hearing will discuss how documents containing sensitive information would be handled and presented at trial.
 
I shall shorten these up a bit!

Tuesday, July 18th:
*Status Hearing (@ 2pm ET) - FL – *Donald John Trump (76/now 77) indicted (6/8/23), charged & arraigned (6/13/23) with 31 counts of willful retention of classified documents, 1 count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, 1 count of withholding a document or record, 1 count of corruptly concealing a document or record, 1 count of concealing a document in a federal investigation, 1 count of scheme to conceal & 2 counts of making false statements & representations. Plead not guilty.
Count 1-31: Willful retention of National Defense info, Count 32: Conspiracy to obstruct justice, Count 33: Withholding a document or record, Count 34: Corruptly concealing a document or record, Count 35: Concealing a document in a Federal investigation, Count 36: Scheme to conceal & Count 37: False statements & representations. Southern District of Florida (Miami) Federal Court
Trial set to begin on 8/14/23. Trump only.
Indictment: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.3.0.pdf
U.S. District Judge Aileen Mercedes Cannon. In addition to Cannon, Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart's name also appeared on the summons sent to Trump on Thursday, 6/8/23.
Trump’s lawyers are Todd Blanche & the former Florida solicitor general Chris Kise & maybe Lindsey Halligan.
Case & court info from 4/2/23 thru 6/19/23 reference post #777 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...struction-of-justice-june-2023.680765/page-39
6/22/23 Update: Special Counsel Jack Smith informed Judge Cannon that the Justice Dept. has made its first production of unclassified evidence available for review by Trump's defense team. Among other things, includes some grand jury testimony, statements by Trump & Nauta & CCTV footage. The trial’s start date 8/14/23 is subject to change & Judge Cannon scheduled a calendar call for the parties to check in on 8/8/23. The trial is expected to take two weeks, she wrote. 6/23/23 Update: Prosecutors with U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith on Friday asked Judge Cannon to delay the trial until 12/11/23.
6/26/23 Update: Judge Cannon on Monday also set a 7/14/23 hearing tied to how classified information in the case will be handled. Legal experts have said the complexities surrounding the use of highly classified documents as evidence are likely to delay Trump's trial. In recognition of the fact that Nauta’s new arraignment could delay the criminal case, prosecutors asked the magistrate judge to set a new hearing date before 14 July, when all parties are due before US district court judge Aileen Cannon to set a timetable to start the discovery process. The move by Torres to delay the arraignment for a second time was unusual, given magistrate judges have the authority to assign a federal public defender or a standby counsel to represent defendants on a one-off basis so that they can enter a plea.
6/29/23 Update: Susie Wiles, one of Trump's most trusted advisers leading his second reelection effort, is the individual singled out in Smith's indictment as the "PAC Representative" who Trump is alleged to have shown a classified map to in August or September of 2021, sources said. Trump, in the indictment, is alleged to have shown the classified map of an unidentified country to Wiles while discussing a military operation that Trump said "was not going well," while adding that he "should not be showing the map" to her and "not to get too close." The alleged exchange between Trump and Wiles is the second of two instances detailed by prosecutors in the indictment showing how Trump allegedly disclosed classified information in private meetings after leaving the White House. The first was a July 2021 audio recording, obtained by ABC Newsearlier this week, in which Trump is heard showing people what he describes as a "secret" and "highly confidential" document relating to Iran. Sources have also further identified some of the other figures mentioned by Smith's team in the indictment. Hayley Harrison and Molly Michael are said to be "Trump Employee 1" and "Trump Employee 2," respectively. The indictment details their text messages back and forth about moving Trump's boxes out of the business center as his Mar-a-Lago estate to create room for staff to work.
6/30/23 Update: Special counsel Jack Smith is reportedly ready to drop a hammer blow of up to 45 additional criminal charges on Trump in the classified documents case, especially if Trump-friendly Judge Aileen Cannon looks set to thwart the case. The prosecutor is prepared to bring additional charges in various federal jurisdictions against Trump based in part on multiple additional incriminating tapes of Trump quoting “people familiar with the matter.” Prosecutors are readying what is known as a superseding indictment in part as a back-up plan in case Cannon seeks to stall or derail the case against Trump that was filed in the southern district of Florida, in which Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort home is located, the paper said. The new charges could come “in the coming weeks.” One likely venue for additional charges against Trump would be New Jersey because Trump allegedly kept & even showed off some of the highly classified documents to aides at his Bedminster golf resort. The report about Smith’s aggressive plans came on the same day that a separate published report said the Miami grand jury that indicted Trump is still investigating different aspects of the classified documents case. The panel has issued new subpoenas since Trump was charged, suggesting the south Florida panel could wind up issuing its own new charges or adding evidence to the 37 counts that Trump already faces there, The New York Times reported. The incidents could amount to powerful evidence against Trump because they show he knew he held onto classified information and that he wanted to use the documents for his own personal reasons. (The incident where he showed Susan WIles, a top official in Trump's failed reelection bid). Trump has spun various excuses for his actions, including most recently asserting that he was only expressing “bravado” in the Bedminster meeting and didn’t actually have any classified documents. Legal analysts say the tape would likely prove very persuasive evidence to a jury, despite Trump’s denial. The classified map incident could further bolster the case against Trump, especially since his own top aide would be the one relating the episode.
7/3/23 Update: Thursday, 7/6/23 was supposed to be the date by which Trump had to respond to Smith’s December trial date request. But with Nauta’s latest delay with his arraignment on 6/27/23, Cannon on Friday pushed the response deadline to July 10.
7/3/23 Update: several developments in the three weeks since his arraignment threaten to ratchet up the stakes of his legal jeopardy even further. Special counsel Jack Smith hasn’t been resting on his laurels since he dropped 37 federal charges on Trump. Smith is also probing Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and his reported attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. That effort appears to be homing in on two areas in particular: the effort to have “fake electors” try to cast Electoral College votes for Trump and the fundraising effort that raked in boatloads of cash in the weeks after the election. Smith has begun examining whether the members of Trump’s legal team who coordinated the fake electors scheme “were following specific instructions from Trump or others, and what those instructions were."
7/10/23 Update: Trump files response tin opposition to the Government's motion for continuance & proposed revised scheduling order. Pretrial/Status hearing tentatively rescheduled on 7/18/23. 7/13/23 Update: On Thursday, prosecutors on special counsel Jack Smith’s team responded by asking U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to not postpone the trial beyond the December date they recommended. They rejected the idea that any of the legal arguments the defense intends to raise requires postponement of the trial, saying they’ve already produced grand jury transcripts & unclassified witness statements. They said that in the next week, they will produce witness statements for interviews conducted through June 23, or two weeks after the indictment was returned. Defense lawyers had also argued that Trump’s busy campaign schedule for the 2024 Republican nomination needed to be taken into account in scheduling a trial. But prosecutors said that, too, was not a basis for an indefinite delay. “Many indicted defendants have demanding jobs that require a considerable amount of their time and energy, or a significant amount of travel,” they wrote. “To be sure,” they added, “the Government readily acknowledges that jury selection here may merit additional protocols (such as a questionnaire) and may be more time-consuming than in other cases, but those are reasons to start the process sooner rather than later.”

ALSO:
*Pretrial Hearing (@ am ET) - FL – Co-Conspirator *Waltine Nauta indicted (6/8/23) & charged (6/13/23) on 6 charges stemming from special counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents probe, including conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document or record, concealing a document in a federal investigation, scheming to conceal & making false statements to federal agents.
Count 32: Conspiracy to obstruct justice, Count 33: Withholding a document or record, Count 34: Corruptly concealing a document or record, Count 35: Concealing a document in a Federal investigation, Count 36: Scheme to conceal & Count 38: False statements & representations. Trump: Plead not guilty & released on his own recognizance with no monetary bond (Personal Surety Bond) & no travel restrictions. Nauta: No plea entered & released on his own recognizance with no monetary bond (Person Surety Bond). Southern District of Florida (Miami) Federal Court
Indictment: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.3.0.pdf
U.S. District Judge Aileen Mercedes Cannon. In addition to Cannon, Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart's name also appeared on the summons sent to Trump on Thursday, 6/8/23.
Waltine Nauta will be represented by Stanley Woodward.
Case & court info from 4/2/23 thru 6/27/23 reference post #847 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...struction-of-justice-june-2023.680765/page-43
6/27/23 Update: Nauta: U.S. Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres postponed Nauta's arraignment in the case for a second time, to 7/6/23 & warned Nauta's attorney that he needed to quickly find a lawyer who is licensed to practice in Florida, where the case is being tried. He has been unable to find local counsel to represent him & he was unable to be present in court today as a result of flight delays. Nauta’s out-of-town counsel, Stanley Woodward, was present in court. But local court rules require Nauta to have local counsel, too. Woodward told the magistrate that Nauta was stuck at Newark airport for several hours yesterday as he attempted to get to Miami for arraignment. In recognition of the fact that Nauta’s new arraignment could delay the criminal case, prosecutors asked the magistrate judge to set a new hearing date before 14 July, when all parties are due before US district court judge Aileen Cannon to set a timetable to start the discovery process. The move by Torres to delay the arraignment for a second time was unusual, given magistrate judges have the authority to assign a federal public defender or a standby counsel to represent defendants on a one-off basis so that they can enter a plea.
7/6/23 Update: Nauta's plea of not guilty was entered by Trump attorney Stan Woodward & Nauta was represented by Woodward and local Florida attorney Sasha Dadan. Presiding U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon is currently weighing a motion by federal prosecutors to move the trial date to mid-December.
7/10/23 Update: Nauta has filed a motion to postpone the first pretrial conference in the case, which is currently scheduled for 7/14/23. According to the filing, the basis for the postponement request is that Nauta's out-of-town counsel, Stanley Woodward, is scheduled to begin a bench trial this week in D.C.--and thus would be unable to attend the pretrial conference on 7/14/23. counsel for the office of special counsel Jack Smith have filed a motion opposing Nauta's requested delay. "An indefinite continuance is unnecessary, will inject additional delay in this case, and is contrary to public interest," they write. Smith fired back in his filing that Nauta has provided no reason why his Florida-based lawyer, Sasha Dadan, couldn’t handle the hearing. In a new filing later Monday, Trump’s defense team & the special counsel’s office said 7/18/23 would be an agreeable date for the first appearance before Cannon on classified information procedures. The hearing will not be on the schedule until the judge orders a date.

 
Mar-a-Lago was previously in the news this year following an FBI raid of its premises, which yielded multiple boxes of classified documents taken from the White House. Photographs from the raid disseminated in American media show crates full of documents stored in a bathroom and in a storage space in the estate.

A source updated on the affair told Haaretz that he wouldn’t be surprised if “the items Israel seeks are also eventuallyfound in some bathroom there.”

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Israeli antiquities are stranded at Trump's estate as authorities fail to retrieve them

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Trump's lawyers ask judge in documents case to consider campaign timing

Donald Trump's lawyers asked a U.S. federal judge on Tuesday not to treat the former president the same as any other criminal defendant in setting the timing for his trial on charges of mishandling classified documents, citing his presidential campaign.
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July 19, 2023
FORT PIERCE, Florida, July 18 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's lawyers asked a U.S. federal judge on Tuesday not to treat the former president the same as any other criminal defendant in setting the timing for his trial on charges of mishandling classified documents, citing his presidential campaign.
[......]
Trump lawyer Christopher Kise asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed to the bench by Trump, to consider the timing of the U.S. presidential campaign in deciding when to schedule the trial.

Cannon did not set a trial date during the hearing, which Trump did not attend, but appeared skeptical of prosecutors' request for a December start. She asked prosecutor Jay Bratt if there had ever been a case involving classified information that had gone to trial in less than six months. Bratt said he could not point to a specific case.


But Cannon also did not seem inclined to grant Trump’s request for an indefinite delay, saying, "we need to set a schedule."
[.....]
During Tuesday's hearing in the documents case, Trump attorney Kise said that because the U.S. Justice Department under Biden brought the charges, the case could be seen as the "two leading contenders for president of the United States squaring off in court."

Prosecutor David Harbach called suggestions of political interference "flat out false." He noted that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith as special counsel to distance the investigation from politics.
[.....]
The charges against Trump include violations of the Espionage Act, which criminalizes unauthorized possession of defense information. Trump, 77, would face a sentence of up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

Cannon initially scheduled the trial to start on Aug. 14 - a date that both the defense and prosecution opposed because they said they needed more time to prepare.


and another article:
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Hearing in Trump's classified documents case ends without trial date decision

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and prosecutors sparred in court Tuesday over when his landmark criminal trial concerning the mishandling of classified documents should begin, but the judge put off an immediate decision.
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and this one goes into more detail of the "law".


Unfortunately none of the articles gave a next hearing date, but from my notes I have a Calendar Call on 8/8/23. So I shall put them there - until I hear any different. :)
 
apnews.com

Trump is notified he's a target of the US criminal probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election

Former President Donald Trump said that he's been notified he is a target of the Justice Department investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
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Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has received a letter informing him that he is a target of the Justice Department’s investigation into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, an indication he could soon be charged by U.S. prosecutors.

Trump disclosed the existence of a target letter in a post on his Truth Social platform, saying he received it Sunday night and he anticipates being indicted. Such a letter often precedes an indictment and is used to advise individuals under investigation that prosecutors have gathered evidence linking them to a crime. Trump himself received one soon before being charged last month in a separate investigation into the illegal retention of classified documents.

New federal charges, on top of existing state and federal counts in New York and Florida and a separate election-interference investigation nearing conclusion in Georgia, would add to the list of legal problems for Trump as he pursues the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
 
Trump faces additional charges of obstruction of justice and willful retention of classified documents in Florida case.

"willful retention of national defense information."

Trump asked staffer to delete camera footage at Mar-a-Lago to obstruct document probe.

“De Oliveira told Trump Employee 4 that their convo should remain between the two of them…De Oliveira told Trump Employee 4 that ‘the boss’ wanted the server deleted.”

 

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sds71 said:
Trump faces additional charges of obstruction of justice and willful retention of classified documents in Florida case.

"willful retention of national defense information."

Trump asked staffer to delete camera footage at Mar-a-Lago to obstruct document probe.

“De Oliveira told Trump Employee 4 that their convo should remain between the two of them…De Oliveira told Trump Employee 4 that ‘the boss’ wanted the server deleted.”

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So, he’s going to jail right? I mean, right!? Holy cow!
 
JAN 27, 2023
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Trump faces new charges in classified documents superseding indictment

Trump faces new charges in connection with his post-presidency handling of classified documents after the special counsel filed a new indictment Thursday.
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[...]

4h ago / 4:42 PM PDT

Here is a brief timeline of events leading up to last year's search at Mar-a-Lago, according to the special counsel's court filing:
  • June 22 — The Justice Department requests security video from Mar-a-Lago.
  • June 23 — Trump speaks to De Oliveira on the phone for roughly 24 minutes.
  • June 24 — One of Trump's attorneys speaks with the former president about the security video.
  • June 25 — Nauta and De Oliveira meet at a security guard booth, where surveillance video is displayed on monitors. De Oliveira later steps into an audio closet with another employee and has a conversation that De Oliveira says should be kept between them.
  • June 27 — De Oliveira tells an unnamed employee that the "boss" wants the Mar-a-Lago surveillance video deleted.
[...]

4h ago / 4:34 PM PDT

The latest charges accusing Trump and his staff of trying to delete surveillance camera video provide prosecutors with a significant new tool to bolster their story to the jury.

According to the superseding indictment, after Trump was served with a grand jury subpoena to return the classified materials, Carlos De Oliveira allegedly told the director of IT at the club that “‘the boss’ wanted the server deleted.”

The former president’s defense has consistently taken some form of “I had the right to possess the documents (despite no longer being president).”

But if prosecutors can prove he and others engaged in a conspiracy to delete video to thwart federal efforts to locate the documents, that adds a new dimension to the story that was missing previously.

Prosecutors aren’t required to prove a defendant’s motive, but attempting to delete the video (assuming the Justice Department can show that) would strengthen the overall obstruction case, as well as provide evidence toward Trump’s consciousness of guilt over the alleged retention of the classified materials.

[...]
 
It seems incredible that it is all so banal, and clumsy.There seems no sign of any real sophistication, as you might expect with a former President. It seems being held to account was so far from being what was expected, that no one was really trying that hard.No signs of criminal masterminds at play here.
 
sds71 said:
Trump faces additional charges of obstruction of justice and willful retention of classified documents in Florida case.

"willful retention of national defense information."

Trump asked staffer to delete camera footage at Mar-a-Lago to obstruct document probe.

“De Oliveira told Trump Employee 4 that their convo should remain between the two of them…De Oliveira told Trump Employee 4 that ‘the boss’ wanted the server deleted.”

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De Oliveira was a valet, maintenance worker and more recently a property manager at Trump’s resort, Mar-a-Lago, according to the superseding indictment. The 56-year-old lives in Lake Worth, Florida and was said to be a longtime employee of the resort who kept to himself and liked to play golf, according to local news station WPTV. Those who knew him also told the station they were shocked he could have been part of any criminal activity.

The indictment said De Oliveira helped Nauta move 30 boxes of documents, from Trump’s residence to a storage room, and asked the person responsible for surveillance at the resort to delete the footage on behalf of Trump. He was also accused of draining the resort pool to flood the rooms that contained surveillance footage.

When the FBI discovered the documents at Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, Trump allegedly called De Oliveira and said he would get him an attorney.

De Oliveira is set to appear in federal court in Miami on 31 July.

Who is Carlos De Oliveira? The third defendant in Trump’s indictment | Donald Trump | The Guardian

De Oliveira was a valet, maintenance worker and more recently a property manager at Trump’s resort, Mar-a-Lago
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