Prosecutors on Tuesday announced that an em-ployee of Donald Trump, who was presented as a witness in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case has implicated him after switching lawyers, according to a court filing.
As per a BBC report, Yuscil Taveras, an IT di-rector who has been referred to as “Trump Em-ployee 4” in court documents, changed his testi-mony after changing attorneys.
Prosecutors say that Taveras now accuses Trump and two of his allies of “efforts to delete security camera footage,” while the 77-year-old is facing 40 charges in the case.
Trump, his adviser Walt Nauta, and Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker Carlos De Oliveira have all entered not-guilty pleas in connection with mishandling classified documents at Mar-a-Lago residence and attempting to cover it up by erasing security footage, the BBC reported.
Taveras, whose former lawyer also represents Trump’s co-defendant Nauta, changed lawyers after being alerted by Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is in charge of the case, that he was being investigated for lying.
During grand jury testimony in March this year, Taveras “repeatedly denied or claimed not to recall any contacts or conversations about the security footage at Mar-a-Lago”.
Prosecutors claimed to have evidence to prove that De Oliveira had instructed Taveras to remove the CCTV footage as they followed the movement of boxes carrying the documents inside the resort.—AFP
