Owen Hayes is an associate producer for the NBC News Washington bureau.
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Walt Nauta, Donald Trump’s valet and co-defendant in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, will be able to keep his attorney despite potential conflicts of interest raised by the government. Florida-based U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the case involving the former president’s alleged mishandling of sensitive documents, on Friday accepted that Nauta had “knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily” waived his right to conflict-free counsel at the conclusion.
Woodward represented Taveras during his initial grand jury testimony in March during the special counsel’s criminal investigation. Taveras later dropped Woodward as his attorney and flipped to cooperate with the government under a non-prosecution agreement. The government says he has information about an alleged scheme involving Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, another co-defendant in the case, to delete security footage at Mar-a-Lago at Trump’s behest.
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