Government approves former president’s proposal for Judge Raymond Dearie, 78, to determine which top secret documents should be excluded from the investigation
The Justice Department is ready to accept one of Donald Trump’s candidates for appointment as a special magistrate to arbitrate the classified documents seized by the FBI, the centerpiece of the legal dispute between the former president and federal prosecutors. This is Raymond Dearie, a 78-year-old former Chief Justice of the Federal Court of the Eastern District of New York, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1986. Dearie, who is currently active, has notified the government that he is available to take charge of to take up the matter. case of urgency.
As an independent third party, the Special Magistrate’s role will be to determine whether any of the top secret documents seized during the Mar-a-Lago search should be excluded from the investigation. While we have yet to wait for Federal Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision on Dearie’s nomination, the Trump team’s proposed judge is the only option that has the agreement of both sides after the former president’s lawyers challenge the two judges. that had been proposed by the Ministry of Justice .
The appointment could unblock the document review case and ultimately clear the investigation into the theft of classified material and violation of the Espionage Act, which Trump’s legal process is trying to prevent.
The Justice Department’s pressure on the former president continues to mount with the progress and expansion of another parallel investigation into its main fundraising vehicle, Save America PAC, which was recently the subject of a series of subpoenas to provide information about his practices. One of the focuses of what appears to be a new line of research is the raising and spending of funds around the “Save America Rally” that preceded the attack on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021.
In another major development revealing the first concrete step to focus the Jan. 6 investigation on the White House and the president, rather than just the riots themselves, the Justice Department last week sent dozens of subpoenas to aides implicating Trump. was involved in the plot to annul the election. About 40 people have been called to testify or provide information, including Boris Epshteyn, an adviser to the former president, and Mike Roman, a campaign strategist, whose phones were also seized as evidence. Dan Scavino, Trump’s former social media director, and Bernard Kerik, the former New York Police Commissioner, were also subpoenaed.
The subpoenas are part of the investigation into the plan to create false lists of pro-Trump deputies in the states in which Biden won, in secret replacement of the legitimate representatives of the electoral college of the 2020 election. justify the blockade of the certification of Biden’s election victory at the joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021.
Source: La Verdad
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