House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is demanding records from special counsel Jack Smith's office after a lawyer representing a defendant in former President Donald Trump's classified documents case said he was improperly pressured.
Lawyer Stanley Woodward is representing Walt Nauta, an aide to the former president who is charged alongside Trump with scheming to block the government's efforts to reclaim sensitive records.In a letter Jordan sent to Smith obtained by the Washington Examiner, Jordan cited reports from June that Woodward felt like he was being pressured to cooperate with Smith's office.
Woodward claimed at a meeting last fall that the Justice Department's chief of counterintelligence, Jay Bratt, raised the issue of Woodward's application for a judgeship on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Prosecutors during that meeting were attempting to convince him that Nauta had lied and should cooperate in the investigation, Woodward said at the time.
The letter comes after Woodward noted in court filings that another prior client, Mar-a-Lago IT worker Yuscil Taveras, signed a"non-prosecution" agreement with prosecutors. The testimony from Taveras, who is listed in the indictment as"Trump Employee 4," led to a superseding indictment of Trump, Nauta, and a third co-defendant, Carlos de Oliveira, alleging they sought to delete Mar-a-Lago security camera footage capturing them moving boxes.
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