BREAKING: AG Garland appoints special counsel to oversee investigation of documents with classified markings found at President Biden's former office and in Wilmington garage
from the Obama administration in a garage in his Wilmington home, and another single document was discovered in an adjacent room. No documents were found in Mr. Biden's Rehoboth Beach home.
, Smith, as special counsel to investigate Trump's handling of sensitive government records found at his South Florida residence from the White House after his presidency. In the case involving the former president, efforts by the Archives to retrieve materials taken by Trump to Mar-a-Lago. The agency received 15 boxes of presidential records from the South Florida resort in mid-January 2022, and later revealed some of the documents contained records marked classified. Archives officials, though, believed some records remained unaccounted for.
After repeated communications between top Archives officials and Trump's lawyers, the Justice Department eventually obtained a grand jury subpoena in May for"any and all" documents bearing classification markings in Trump's possession at Mar-a-Lago, and set a May 24 deadline for them to be turned over.
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