Prosecutors reportedly allege that Evan Corcoran was used by Donald Trump in furtherance of a crime or fraud, which would overcome the shield of attorney-client privilege.
A federal judge on Friday ruled that a lawyer for former President Donald Trump cannot use attorney-client privilege to get out of answering questions in the criminal investigation of the ex-commander in chief’s mishandling of classified documents.
District Judge Beryl Howell ordered attorney Evan Corcoran to provide additional testimony to a grand jury hearing evidence against Trump, arguing in her ruling that the Justice Department met the threshold for the crime-fraud exception for attorney-client privilege,Prosecutors allege that Corcoran was used by Trump in furtherance of a crime or fraud, which would overcome the shield of attorney-client privilege, according to the news outlet.
When Corcoran first appeared before the grand jury in January, he reportedly refused to answer questions about his discussions with Trump in the lead-up to theHundreds of pages of classified documents were seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence by the FBI last August.Special counsel Jack Smith is investigating Trump for obstruction of justice and criminal violations of the Presidential Records Act.
Corcoran drafted a statement signed by Bobb in June 2022 that declared that Trump’s team had fully complied with a subpoena seeking classified documents being housed at Mar-a-Lago.
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