Breaking news: Justice Department asks judge to hold Trump team in contempt over Mar-a-Lago documents case. The request came after months of mounting frustration from the Justice Department with the former president’s lawyers.
In recent days, Justice Department lawyers have asked U.S. District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell to hold Trump’s office in contempt, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sealed court proceedings. But the judge has not yet held a hearing or ruled on the request, they said.
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said the former president’s lawyers “continue to cooperative and transparent.” He added: “This is a political witch hunt unlike anything like this country has ever seen.”Trump’s team has searched a number of his other properties in recent weeks, in response to the DOJ concerns and instructions from the judge, and. Trump’s advisers told the FBI the items were found in a storage facility used by the former president in West Palm Beach, Fla.
In June, Bobb signed an attestation that a diligent search had been conducted for any such material, but the FBI collected convincing evidence that was not the case. The government got a court-authorized search warrant in August which turned up 103 more classified documents at Mar-a-Lago that had not been turned over in response to the subpoena.
Prosecutors have said in court filings that after Trump’s lawyers received the May subpoena, they asked for additional time to comply with it before agreeing to meet on June 3 to turn over records. The night before the scheduled meeting, Bobb — a lawyer and former One America News host —
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