An information technology director at Mar-a-Lago struck a cooperation agreement with federal prosecutors last summer in their investigation of Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents at the former president’s Florida property
FILE - An aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen Aug. 10, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. WASHINGTON — — An information technology director at Mar-a-Lago struck a cooperation agreement with federal prosecutors last summer in theirat the former president's Florida property, according to the worker's ex-lawyer.
Stanley Woodward, a former attorney for the IT manager, made the revelation in a court filing responding to Justice Department arguments that he had a potential conflict-of-interest because of his representation of another key figure in the Mar-a-Lago probe,A cooperation agreement generally requires an individual to assist a criminal investigation in exchange for not being prosecuted.
The indictment alleges that De Oliveira, Mar-a-Lago's property manager, told the IT director — identified in court papers as Trump Employee 4 — that “the boss” wanted surveillance footage deleted. The Justice Department does not allege that the footage was actually deleted, and in fact, security video alleged to show Nauta moving boxes in and out of a storage room forms a critical accusation in the indictment.
Woodward, in a court filing this week, rejected that version of events, saying he had welcomed the opportunity for his client to have a new lawyer from the federal defender's office and that the client had been offered a cooperation agreement immediately after saying that he wanted to switch attorneys.
He also said that his client had explicitly said that he had not been coached to testify in any way that was false.
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