Lawyers for Donald Trump and Waltine “Walt” Nauta accused prosecutors of improperly using a Washington grand jury to gather evidence after they were charged in Florida with mishandling classified information and obstructing an investigation.
The former president and his personal aide were indicted in June by a South Florida grand jury. But much of the investigation unfolded in Washington in the months leading up to that. Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office said prosecutors continued to use a grand jury in the nation’s capital after securing the original indictment, before a Florida grand jury returned an expanded, superseding version on July 27.
Woodward previously represented an unnamed witness who worked at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and allegedly was told that “the boss” — an apparent reference to Trump — wanted surveillance camera footage deleted. Prosecutors used that witness in adding obstruction allegations related to the surveillance footage in the latest version of the indictment, along with a new defendant, Carlos De Oliveira, a property manager at Mar-a-Lago.
Lawyers are allowed to represent multiple clients in a single case, but judges are supposed to make sure that no one’s rights are harmed in the process. The government typically has an interest in highlighting potential defense conflicts because it’s an issue a defendant could raise later to challenge a conviction.
Key moments in the classified documents investigation took place in Washington, starting with the transfer of boxes of government records from the White House when Trump left in January 2021 and efforts by the National Archives and Records Administration to get them back.
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