Washington – The main federal prosecutor in southern Florida is asking a Federal Court of Appeals to dismiss the case of qualified documents against the former coacked of President Trump, the Walt Nauta aid and the former manager owned by Mar-a-Lago Carlos de Oliveira.
The United States prosecutor, Hayden O’Byrne, made the order to the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Wednesday, to which Nauta and Oliveira lawyers do not oppose. It is likely that the Atlante Court of Atlanta grants the application, making the case initially present the special lawyer Jack Smith.
Nauta and Oliveira were accused with Mr. Trump In 2023, supposedly helping to obstruct the investigation of the Department of Justice on the management of the President of Sensitive Government after the end of his first term in January 2021.
The Prosecutor’s Office was brought by Smith, who resigned as a special lawyer before Trump returned to the White House. The special lawyer said that the president clung to the sensitive government illegally after returning to his resort in southern Florida, Mar-a-lago, after leaving the White House four years ago, and accused Nauta and Oliveira to work with Mr. Trump to hide information from the Department of Justice.
The three coacked ones declared themselves innocent. He The charges were dismissed by the American district judge Aileen Cannon last July with the argument that Smith was illegally designated. The special lawyer appealed the decision to the 11th circuit.
After the election of Mr. Trump in November, Smith sought successfully to take it out of the case due to a Long Data Department of Justice Department that prohibits the prosecution of a acting president. But the appeal continued on Nauta and Oliveira.
The former special lawyer accused Mr. Trump’s two allies to try to interfere with federal investigation. His lawyers fought against the charges and resisted the previous efforts of the Department of Justice to maintain cases in the future after Trump’s electoral victory.
If the judges agree to close the case, a great impediment to the Public launch of the Smith report The summary of the research of classified documents would be eliminated. Former Attorney General Merrick Garland agreed to maintain the volume of the Smith report that dealt with the under sealing case as the appeal progressed. Now, with the case on the edge of the dismissal and administration of Mr. Trump in power, it is not clear if the volume of the report will be released to the public.
He First volume of the Smith reportwhich involved his investigation and prosecution of Mr. Trump derived from alleged efforts to subvert the transfer of presidential power after the 2020 elections, he became public just before the president returned to office.
Trump has returned to office with a promise to end the so -called “weapon” of the Department of Justice. He has from He fired the approximately a dozen federal prosecutors who worked with Smith in the president’s prosecutions.
Nauta’s lawyer, Stanley Woodward, now serves as a White House lawyer. CBS News previously reported that Oliveira’s lawyer, John Irving, has a possible consideration for a main job within the Justice Department, although a final decision has not yet been made.
Irving said in a statement that “Carlos should never have been accused in the first place, and I have zero doubts that he would have been acquitted in the trial. It is good to see the Department of Justice using a better judgment these days.”
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