Ministry of Justice publishes redacted version of Mar-a-Lago search warrant
The Justice Department released the redacted version of the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search warrant on Friday, a day after a federal judge ordered the release. The redacted version omits information about the grand jury, the identities of the witnesses and the FBI agents involved, and the unindicted parties, as well as the strategy, direction, scope, sources and methods of the investigation, which the department deems sensitive. because it could harm the investigation and endanger witnesses.
Florida Judge Bruce Reinhart, the same judge who approved the FBI’s search warrant, noted that the Justice Department presented compelling arguments to keep the warrant’s summary secret, serving the government’s legitimate interest in protecting the state’s security. integrity of the ongoing investigation.
The redacted version states that the Aug. 8 search warrant was filed after reviewing a first batch of 15 boxes recovered in January, which identified 184 classified documents of high national security, the disclosure of which compromised the safety of ” clandestine human sources.” involved in intelligence gathering and national security. Some of the seized documents contain handwritten notes from the former president.
The document also details the government’s failed attempts over months to negotiate the recovery of government equipment stolen from the White House by a former president who considers it his private property.
The legal problems are compounded for the former president who is under investigation for violation of the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice and unauthorized theft and storage of state documents. While Trump’s lawyers may not face criminal charges, there is speculation that they could be used as witnesses against the former president in the investigation.
Trump, for his part, once again unleashed his anger in response to the release of the search warrant, accusing the FBI and the Justice Department of “public relations subterfuge.” Criticism in which he incriminates himself by admitting that he knew of the existence of the secret documents and refused to hand them over. In addition, the former president expected favorable treatment from a federal judge appointed during his administration.
In related information, a joint investigation by The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Project on Organized Crime and Corruption Information reveals how an impostor managed to repeatedly infiltrate the housing complex last year, alternating near the former president. Information that could justify the FBI’s alarm and concerns about the existence of classified government documents in Mar-a-Lago.
According to the investigation, a woman named Inna Yashchyshyn, posing as a member of a famous European banking family, managed to enter the former president’s exclusive Florida club and play a round of golf at a nearby golf course where Trump and his ally , Senator Lindsey Graham, in May 2021.
Entry to the luxurious club of Yashchyshyn, from an obscure background, and in reality the daughter of an Illinois truck driver, on multiple occasions and using a false identity, exposes security vulnerabilities in a facility that serves as both a residence for the former president. a private club.
Source: La Verdad
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