Donald Trump's attorney must testify before a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., investigating the former president's retention of documents with classified markings, a federal judge secretly ruled.
Donald Trump's attorney must testify before a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., investigating the former president's retention of documents with classified markings, a federal judge secretly ruled on Friday, according to two sources familiar with the proceedings.
Smith's team asked Chief Judge Beryl Howell to reject Corcoran's claims of privilege and force him to testify against his client, Trump, on the basis that the attorney-client communications in question could have furthered criminal activity. Howell's secret order only partially granted that request and ruled that the so-called"crime-fraud exception" be applied to Corcoran's testimony on a specific set of questions, the sources said.
Corcoran — who appeared before a D.C. grand jury once before in the probe — has come under scrutiny for his role in Trump's response to federal investigators as they sought to obtain records with classified markings allegedly taken from the White House to the former president's Florida residence after he left office.
Howell's decision to deny Corcoran's attorney-client privilege claims on Friday was likely her last as top judge and supervisor of all grand jury matters in Washington, D.C.'s federal courthouse. The 2016 Obama appointee's term expired on Friday and she was replaced by another Obama-era judge, Judge James Boasberg.
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