{"id":4877,"date":"2023-09-02T09:50:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T09:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T09:50:49","slug":"trump-employee-4-retracts-testimony-after-changing-lawyers-implicates-former-president-prosecutors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/02\/trump-employee-4-retracts-testimony-after-changing-lawyers-implicates-former-president-prosecutors-say\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Trump Employee 4\u2019 retracts testimony after changing lawyers, implicates former president, prosecutors say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An unnamed employee of former President Donald Trump<\/a> has retracted “false testimony” to a grand jury after changing lawyers, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The employee, referred to as “Trump Employee 4” in court documents from special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s office<\/a>, retracted statements from an earlier testimony and gave information implicating Trump and others over alleged efforts to delete security footage at the former president\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Fox News Digital has confirmed that Trump Employee 4 is Yuscil Tavares, a Mar-a-Lago tech worker. Tavares is cooperating with Smiths’ team after switching lawyers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The court documents say Trump Employee 4 “repeatedly denied or claimed not to recall” any contacts or conversations about security footage when they testified before a D.C. grand jury<\/a> in March 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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But in July, after being advised that he was a target of the investigation and that his lawyer might have a conflict of interest because of his representation of others in the probe, the witness received a new attorney from the federal defender’s office and provided the Justice Department with information that helped form the basis of the revised indictment against Trump, his valet Walt Nauta and a third defendant, Carlos De Oliveira, the court filing says.<\/p>\n

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The new information from the witness was presented to prosecutors weeks before Smith secured an updated indictment accusing Trump and two others in a plot to delete surveillance video at the Florida property.<\/p>\n

The Special Counsel indicates the D.C.-based federal grand jury in the documents case has ended.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Prosecutors described the witness interaction in a filing that seeks a hearing in Florida about potential conflicts of interest involving the defense lawyer, Stanley Woodward, who also represents Nauta.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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They said that encounter helps explain why they continued to use a grand jury in Washington to investigate potential false statements in that district even after they had secured an indictment in Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The target letter to Trump Employee 4 crystallized a conflict of interest arising from Mr. Woodward’s concurrent representation of Trump Employee 4 and Nauta,” prosecutors wrote.<\/p>\n

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They added: “Advising Trump Employee 4 to correct his sworn testimony would result in testimony incriminating Mr. Woodward’s other client, Nauta; but permitting Trump Employee 4’s false testimony to stand uncorrected would leave Trump Employee 4 exposed to criminal charges for perjury.”<\/p>\n

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Woodward declined to comment when reached by Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A trial has been set for May 20, 2024, in the classified documents case. Trump has pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

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Trump is facing another prosecution by Smith, over efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, as well as a criminal case in Georgia over attempts to subvert that state’s vote and another in New York in connection with hush money payments to a porn actor.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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Bradford Betz is a Fox News Digital breaking reporter covering crime, political issues, <\/a>and much more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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