Posted on 09/07/2023 4:41:36 AM PDT by thegagline
The director of information technology at Mar-a-Lago has agreed to cooperate with special counsel Jack Smith in a deal that will allow him to avoid criminal charges in the federal case over former President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, a new court filing shows.
The witness — described in a Justice Department court filing dated Tuesday as “Trump Employee 4” and identified by several media outlets as Yuscil Taveras — had previously recanted “false testimony” in the classified documents case, after switching lawyers and learning that he had left himself exposed to possible perjury charges.
The special counsel’s office “immediately offered Trump Employee 4 a Non-Prosecution Agreement,” after he changed lawyers, his former defense attorney Stanley Woodward wrote in the court filing.
“Represented by [First Assistant Federal Public Defender], [Trump Employee 4] then entered into a cooperation agreement with the government and testified before the grand jury in the Southern District of Florida on July 20, 2023,” the filing states.
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Taveras provided Smith’s team with incriminating information that led to a July superseding indictment against the 77-year-old former president related to his alleged efforts to delete surveillance camera footage taken at Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., club and residence, prosecutors have said.
Trump was charged with altering, destroying, mutilating, or concealing an object and corruptly altering, destroying, mutilating, or concealing a document, record, or other object in connection with his purported order to wipe the surveillance server.
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Taveras flipped after prosecutors raised concerns about a possible conflict of interest between him and Trump co-defendant Walt Nauta, who were both being represented by Woodward before the IT director struck his cooperation agreement with Smith.
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This guy is not even good at IT. His testimony will be a joke.
I don’t know what his qualifications are can you point me an article that indicates he bad at his job ??
Re: 41 - then why did President Trump hire him?
He has no certifications listed online.
I was in the IT Industry for 38 years, some of the smartest people I know in that industry never had any certifications.
Did Mark Zuckerburg and Bill Gates have any certifications, the point being, certifications don’t mean anything other than you took a few tests.
Over the years I’ve held certifications from Microsoft, Citrix, HP and Cisco Systems, I took those tests to show I was willing to support whatever I was assigned to support.
MY main area of support was Cisco Systems, I’ve know Cisco CCIEs who had never installed anything other than they were really smart at studying and taking a onsite lab test.
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