I think this hearing is still on... guess we will find out later. At least I can shorten this up a bit.
Thursday, Sept. 14th:
*Status Hearing (for all) (@ am 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.
Additional indicted &
charged (7/27/23) with 1 count of willful retention of defense information & 2 counts of obstruction. Plead not guilty in filing of waiver of non appearance (8/4/23).
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.
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. Plead not guilty.
Additional indicted &
charged (7/27/23) with 2 counts of obstruction of justice. Plead not guilty.
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).
Co-Conspirator
*Carlos de Oliveira (56) has also been indicted &
charged (7/27/23) with with 1 count each of obstruction of justice, concealing records & documents & making false statements to FBI. He is alleged to have asked what could be done to delete the footage. Plead not guilty (8/15/23). $100K Surety bond-out on bond.
Judge ruled that, in the meantime, De Oliveira must hand in his expired U.S. passport within 48 hours.
Mr. Nauta & Mr. de Oliveira conspired to delete footage from security cameras after the Dept. of Justice issued a subpoena asking for surveillance footage of the basement where it said confidential documents were held. In the court documents, Mr. de Oliveira is claimed to have texted another employee who was the director of information technology that "the boss" wanted the server deleted. The documents allege that Mr. de Oliveira later met with the employee in a small IT room, told him their conversation should remain private, then pressured the man into obliging his request after the employee told Mr. de Oliveira that he did not have the authority.
Indictment: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.3.0.pdf
U.S. District Judge Aileen Mercedes Cannon.
Waltine Nauta will be represented by Stanley Woodward.
De Oliveira will be represented by Jack Irving. Trump’s lawyers are Todd Blanche & the former Florida solicitor general Chris Kise & maybe Lindsey Halligan.
Jury selection to begin on 5/14/24.
Trial set to begin on 5/20/24. (expected to take 2 weeks).
Case & court info from 4/2/23 thru 8/9/23 reference post #48 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...tice-june-2023-trial-may-2024-2.686530/page-3
8/9/23 Update: For all: Motions hearing on Section 3 on 8/25/23 & status hearing on 9/14/23. Motions hearing on 4/11/24 & 4/17/23. Jury selection begin on 5/14/24 & trial set to begin on 5/20/24. Initial production of classified discovery by 9/7/23. Joint Discovery Status report on 9/14/23. Government's CIPA Section 10 Notice by 9/14/23. Government's CIPA Section 4 Motion (ex parte) by 10/10/23. Any defense challenge to Section 4 (ex Parte) filing by 10/10/23. Deadline for the filing of any Motions in Limine & any motion to introduce evidence under Fed. R. Evid. 404(b) by 3/20/24. Government's CIPA Section 6(c) Motion if necessary on 4/11/24. Hearing on Motions in Limine on 4/17/24. Defense response to CIPA Section 6(c) Motion by 4/25/24. Government's reply to CIPA Section 6(c) Motion by 5/2/24.
8/9/23 Update: Nauta: Opposition to Motion for Protective Order filed by Stanley E. Woodward, Jr. 8/10/23 Update: DeOliveira was NOT arraigned this morning. He does not have local counsel yet. It has been continued to next week Tuesday, 8/15/23 at 10am.
8/15/23 Update: DeOliveira arraignment. de Oliveira, the Mar-a-Lago property manager indicted in the special counsel's classified documents case, pleaded not guilty to multiple obstruction-related offenses & asked for a trial by jury. The prosecutors told Judge Aileen Cannon in a filing on Wednesday that John Irving, the lawyer for Mar-a-Lago property manager & Trump co-defendant Carlos De Oliveira, also represents three possible witnesses who could be called to testify against him at trial. Prosecutors previously raised a similar issue about Trump’s other co-defendant in the case, his personal aide Walt Nauta, being represented by Stanley Woodward – a lawyer who, like Irving, has taken on a handful of clients in the federal investigation who are still backed by Trump. Both lawyers have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Trump’s Save America PAC for their legal work. In the filing Wednesday, prosecutors say Irving represents a receptionist, a Trump aide & a Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker, in addition to De Oliveira, who also handled maintenance tasks at the Florida club & is accused of trying to get surveillance footage of the movement of boxes with documents in them deleted & lying to investigators. Next motions hearing on Section 3 for all on 8/25/23.
8/17/23 Update: Florida Judge Cannon in Trump classified docs case will hold a sealed hearing, date/location not announced, to discuss issues re: the handling of classified evidence -- one of the key points of contention has been where Trump can discuss sensitive material with lawyers. Order Scheduling Sealed Hearing on CIPA Section 3 Protective Order. Defendants not ordered to appear at sealed hearing. Hearing on 8/25/23 has been cancelled. 8/17/23 Update: Defense filed Notice Regarding Filings in a Separate Case. Trump team is now complaining to Judge Cannon that special counsel has proposed jury selection in Washington D.C. on 12/11/23, the same day as one of Cannon's pretrial hearings. They are asking her to take "appropriate action.
8/22/23 Update: Special Counsel Jack Smith filed Reply in Further Support of Government's Motion for Garcia Hearing on 8/22/23. See link: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648654/gov.uscourts.flsd.648654.129.0.pdf
8/22/23 Update: Jack Smith tells Judge Cannon that a witness in Trump's documents case retracted false testimony after switching lawyers. "On July 5, 2023, Yuscil Taveras (Trump Employee 4/IT Director at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago) informed Chief Judge Boasberg that he no longer wished to be represented by Mr. Woodward and that, going forward, he wished to be represented by the First Assistant Federal Defender. Immediately after receiving new counsel, Trump Employee 4 retracted his prior false testimony & provided information that implicated Nauta, De Oliveira & Trump in efforts to delete security camera footage, as set forth in the superseding indictment."
8/25/23 Update: Defendant Waltine Nauta's Motion for Leave to file Sur-reply filed by Stanley E. Woodward, Jr. "In what can only be described as a brazen and overt effort to influence the Court and/or the court of public opinion, the Special Counsel selectively quotes defense counsel’s submission in deliberate contravention of a sealing order issued by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia."
9/5/23 Update Mar-a-Lago IT worker Yuscil Taveras has struck a cooperation agreement with the special counsel’s office in the federal case over Trump’s handling of classified documents, Taveras’ former defense attorney said in a new court filing on Tuesday. According to the terms of the deal explained in the filing, Taveras agreed to testify in the classified documents case and in exchange will not be prosecuted. He has not been charged with any crimes. Stanley Woodward wrote in the filing Wednesday that he “played no role” in Taveras’ cooperation & said that prosecutors did not offer Taveras the cooperation deal until after Taveras got a different lawyer. Woodward asked the judge to block Taveras from testifying in any eventual trial. Taveras’ July testimony in front of a grand jury, which wasn’t public, was the source of new allegations against Trump that were included in a superseding indictment filed later that month. Those allegations include efforts by Trump, de Oliveira & Nauta to delete incriminating security footage from the club.
9/13/23 Update: On Sept. 13, Judge Aileen M. Cannon filed a protective order pertaining to classified information disclosed to Trump & defense counsel in the Mar-a-Lago case. Granted the government's Motion to establish procedures dictating access to the classified information in the case. Any violation of the terms of this Order shall be brought immediately to the attention of the Court & may result in a charge of contempt of Court & possible referral for criminal prosecution.
