Special counsel Jack Smith’s office is continuing to investigate whether two employees of Donald Trump gave false testimony to a grand jury as part of the criminal probe into the former president’s retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, prosecutors revealed in a court filing Tuesday.
The filing provides the most direct explanation of how prosecutors obtained information used in the superseding indictment.
Prosecutors believe that Yuscil Taveras, an IT worker who has not been charged, and Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager of Mar-a-Lago charged alongside Trump, gave false testimony about alleged efforts to delete incriminating security camera footage from the Florida club, according to the filing.
They say that Taveras – referred to in court documents only as “Trump Employee 4” – repeatedly “denied or claimed not to recall any contacts or conversations about the security footage at Mar-a-Lago” despite evidence to the contrary. De Oliveira allegedly told prosecutors the same.
But more recently, after switching lawyers, prosecutors say that Taveras changed his story about efforts by Trump, De Oliveira and their other co-defendant, Walt Nauta, to delete security footage.
Both Taveras and De Oliveira are now being investigated for their earlier statements, prosecutors revealed in the filing.
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