Special counsel Jack Smith has been aggressively moving forward in his investigation into Donald Trump’s possession of classified records. Now, one of Trump's lawyers could be forced to answer questions in front of a grand jury in DC.
Last week, then-Chief Judge Beryl Howell reportedly ruled in a sealed order that Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran's assertion of attorney-client privilege with the former president could be overruled. That means he could be forced to answer questions in front of a grand jury in the nation’s capital about the Mar-a-Lago classified documents saga.The ruling, reportedly upheld in a sealed ruling by the U.S.
Howell wrote last week that Smith prosecutors had made a"prima facie showing that the former president had committed criminal violations," according to sources cited by ABC News this week, and that attorney-client privileges invoked by Corcoran and another Trump lawyer, Jennifer Little, could thus be pierced and that Corcoran could be compelled to testify in front of the grand jury.
The judge reportedly found that Smith’s team provided"sufficient" evidence to indicate that Trump had"intentionally concealed" the existence of more classified documents from Corcoran. Smith’s prosecutors then successfully “sought approval from a federal judge to invoke what is known as the crime-fraud exception” that month, according to the New York Times, which allowed the DOJ to pierce the attorney-client privilege assertions.
Trump returned an initial batch of 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago to the National Archives in January 2022. However, the National Archives said it had found some records with classified markings and believed Trump continued to possess other records, and in February 2022, it referred the issue to the Justice Department.
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