The Manhattan district attorney is planning to bring the grand jury weighing potential charges against former President Donald Trump back to continue their work on Thursday, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
It comes after DA Alvin Bragg instructed the members of the grand jury to stay home on Wednesday rather than reconvene as planned, sources told NBC New York. The reason for the delay was unclear, including whether it may involve another potential witness to be heard.
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NBC News confirmed prosecutors had been upset with Cohen’s appearance on Ari Melber's MSNBC show and reached out to his attorney to tell him Cohen should not make any further TV appearances.
A federal appeals court in a sealed order Wednesday directed a lawyer for Donald Trump to turn over to prosecutors documents in the investigation into the former president's retention of classified records at his Florida estate.
The ruling is a significant win for the Justice Department, which has focused for months not only on the hoarding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago but also on why Trump and his representatives resisted demands to return them to the government. It suggests the court has sided with prosecutors who have argued behind closed doors that Trump was using his legal representation to further a crime.
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Corcoran is regarded as relevant to the investigation in part because last year he drafted a statement to the Justice Department asserting that a “diligent search” for classified documents had been conducted at Mar-a-Lago in response to a subpoena. That claim proved untrue as FBI agents weeks later searched the home with a warrant and found roughly 100 additional documents with classified markings.
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A Justice Department investigation led by special counsel Jack Smith and his team of prosecutors is examining whether Trump or anyone in his orbit obstructed its efforts to recover all the classified documents, which included top-secret material, from his home. No charges have yet been filed. The inquiry is one of multiple legal threats Trump faces, including probes in Atlanta and Washington over his efforts to undo the election result and a grand jury investigation in New York over hush money payments. The New York case appears to be nearing completion and building toward an indictment.
Note that Evan Corcoran isn’t the only Trump attorney scheduled to testify before the Mar-a-Lago documents grand jury this week.
— Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) March 22, 2023
Earlier today, @WSJ reported that Jennifer Little—one of Trump’s attorneys in the Fulton County probe—is also likely to testify this week. https://t.co/LMiUZAhW2X pic.twitter.com/hAaBnuQnBy
This is exactly why I was thinking re: Jennifer Little. What does trump’s Fulton County lawyer have to do with the classified docs case? Perhaps, like Alina Habba did for a NYAG subpoena, Little searched Mar-a-Lago for documents pertinent to Fulton County? 1/ https://t.co/DUZeU1gTwv
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) March 23, 2023
The Manhattan grand jury investigating Trump’s alleged role in scheme to pay hush money to an adult film star will NOT hear that case when it convenes today, two sources tell @KaraScannell, pushing DA’s probe into next week.
— Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) March 23, 2023
Grand juries typically hear multiple cases at a time.