‘Trump Employee 4’ retracts testimony after changing lawyers, implicates former president, prosecuto

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‘Trump Employee 4’ retracts testimony after changing lawyers, implicates former president, prosecutors say
The employee is referred to as 'Trump Employee 4' in court documents
 By Bradford Betz , Bill Mears Fox News
Published August 22, 2023 7:37pm EDT

An unnamed employee of former President Donald Trump has retracted "false testimony" to a grand jury after changing lawyers, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

The employee, referred to as "Trump Employee 4" in court documents from special counsel Jack Smith’s office, retracted statements from an earlier testimony and gave information implicating Trump and others over alleged efforts to delete security footage at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

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.

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 in March 2023.

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.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-employee-4-retracts-testimony-changing-lawyers-implicates-former-president-prosecutors-say

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   DeSantis will give him a pardon just as Ford did Nixon.  I don't know why he's crying all the time.   

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DOJ Flips ‘Employee 4’ Against Trump After Feds Give Him New Lawyer

Joel B. Pollak
23 Aug 2023

The Department of Justice (DOJ) appears to have “flipped” an employee of former President Donald Trump after arguing that he needed to change lawyers, then giving him a new attorney from the federal public defender’s office.

“Trump Employee 4” appears in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s superseding indictment, filed several weeks after the original indictment. He is described as having been approached by Carlos de Oliveira, the head of maintenance at Trump’s exclusive Mar-a-Lago residence and club, with requests for assistance in deleting surveillance footage. The information associated with Trump Employee 4 would appear to be crucial in tying De Oliveira to the indictment.

De Oliveira, who was not charged in the original indictment, now faces two counts of destroying a record and one count of making a false statement to investigators.

According to Fox News, Trump Employee 4 has been identified as “Yuscil Tavares, a Mar-a-Lago tech worker.” He was originally represented by Stanley Woodward, the same lawyer who represents Trump’s original co-defendant, Waltine Nauta.

Woodward has also raised ethical objections to the behavior of the DOJ, alleging that a senior DOJ  official, Counterintelligence Chief Jay Bratt, suggested that Woodward might be consider for a judicial post if he could convince Nauta to testify against Trump.

In early August, the Special Counsel informed Tavares that he was a target of investigation and that his attorney, Woodward, might have a conflict of interest because Tavares’s testimony could implicate another client, Nauta.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/23/doj-flips-employee-4-against-trump-after-feds-give-him-new-lawyer/

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DOJ Flips ‘Employee 4’ Against Trump After Feds Give Him New Lawyer

Joel B. Pollak
23 Aug 2023

The Department of Justice (DOJ) appears to have “flipped” an employee of former President Donald Trump after arguing that he needed to change lawyers, then giving him a new attorney from the federal public defender’s office.

“Trump Employee 4” appears in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s superseding indictment, filed several weeks after the original indictment. He is described as having been approached by Carlos de Oliveira, the head of maintenance at Trump’s exclusive Mar-a-Lago residence and club, with requests for assistance in deleting surveillance footage. The information associated with Trump Employee 4 would appear to be crucial in tying De Oliveira to the indictment.

De Oliveira, who was not charged in the original indictment, now faces two counts of destroying a record and one count of making a false statement to investigators.

According to Fox News, Trump Employee 4 has been identified as “Yuscil Tavares, a Mar-a-Lago tech worker.” He was originally represented by Stanley Woodward, the same lawyer who represents Trump’s original co-defendant, Waltine Nauta.

Woodward has also raised ethical objections to the behavior of the DOJ, alleging that a senior DOJ  official, Counterintelligence Chief Jay Bratt, suggested that Woodward might be consider for a judicial post if he could convince Nauta to testify against Trump.

In early August, the Special Counsel informed Tavares that he was a target of investigation and that his attorney, Woodward, might have a conflict of interest because Tavares’s testimony could implicate another client, Nauta.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/23/doj-flips-employee-4-against-trump-after-feds-give-him-new-lawyer/

Seems fishy to me.