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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