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Donald Trump's Property Manager Appears In Court For Secret Documents Case

The property manager of Donald Trump's Florida estate made his first court appearance on Monday to face charges he helped the former president conceal top secret government documents.

Carlos De Oliveira, 56, who is accused of conspiring to obstruct justice, destroying evidence and making false statements, was released pending trial on a bond of $100,000.

Carlos De Oliveira, who was wearing a navy blue suit, did not enter a plea because he has not yet retained a local attorney.

He listened attentively as federal magistrate judge Edwin Torres read the charges against him at a brief hearing in Miami.

Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in June to charges of unlawfully retaining national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements.

The former president and frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination is scheduled to go on trial next May at the height of what is expected to be a bitter and divisive presidential election campaign.

Special counsel Jack Smith filed additional charges against Trump in a superseding indictment last week and added Carlos De Oliveira as a co-defendant.

The new charges relate to Donald Trump's alleged efforts to obstruct the FBI investigation and its bid to recover classified documents he took with him when he left the White House in January 2021.

Donald Trump is specifically accused in the latest indictment of attempting to delete security camera footage at Mar-A-Lago to prevent it from being provided to the FBI and a federal grand jury.

Also charged are Donald Trump's personal aide Waltine "Walt" Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira.

Nauta, a 40-year-old US Navy veteran from Guam, served as Donald Trump's military valet while he was president and continued working for him in a personal capacity since he left the White House.

Donald Trump, Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira allegedly sought to have another Trump employee, who is not identified in the indictment, erase security camera footage at Mar-A-Lago.

Carlos De Oliveira, according to the indictment, allegedly told "Trump Employee 4" that "the boss" wanted the server containing security camera footage of a storage room deleted.

Carlos De Oliveira is additionally charged with making false statements to the FBI.

Asked if he ever helped unload or move boxes of documents at Mar-A-Lago, Carlos De Oliveira said he had not.

"Never saw nothing," he said.

- 'We're ready to go' -

Carlos De Oliveira and Nauta are scheduled to go on trial with Donald Trump unless they enter into plea deals with prosecutors engaged in the first ever criminal case against a former president.

The twice-impeached Donald Trump is accused of endangering national security by holding on to top secret nuclear and defense information after leaving the White House.

Donald Trump kept the files unsecured at Mar-a-Lago -- a club that entertains thousands of members and guests every year -- and thwarted official efforts to retrieve them, according to the indictment.

Donald Trump faces other legal problems including a looming indictment from Smith for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election won by Democrat Joe Biden.

Georgia prosecutors are also investigating whether Donald Trump illegally attempted to reverse the election outcome in the southern state.

Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis, who has been leading the probe, told a local television station over the weekend that the "work is accomplished" and "we're ready to go."

Donald Trump also faces multiple felony counts in a New York fraud case involving alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.


 

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