Trump attorney hires his own attorney as DOJ classified documents probe ramps up – By Maya Boddie (Alternet) / Feb 17, 2023
Evan Corcoran, attorney to former President Donald Trump, has secured his own lawyer as the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigates the former president’s handling of classified documents discovered by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials at his Mar-a-Lago estate last year, Reuters reports.
According to the New York Times (NYT), prosecutors conducting the investigation are requesting “approval from a federal judge to invoke what is known as the crime-fraud exception,” which enables Trump and Corcoran “to work around attorney-client privilege when they have reason to believe that legal advice or legal services have been used in furthering a crime.”
The request, NYT reports, could signal the prosecutors are accusing “Trump or his allies of using Mr. Corcoran’s services in that way.”
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