delicious story: "Prosecutor Tried Hiding Secret Trump Report In A Bundt Cake Recipe, Indictment Alleges"

[orleans]

The Justice Department indicted a federal prosecutor Wednesday for attempting to steal the confidential—and controversially banned—final report on President Donald Trump’s criminal case for allegedly mishandling classified documents, alleging prosecutor Caren Mercedes Lineberger tried to send the report to herself and disguise the sealed court documents as cake recipes.

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The DOJ indicted Lineberger on four counts Tuesday in Florida, accusing her of destruction or alteration of records in a federal investigation; concealment, removal or mutilation of public records and two counts of theft of government property.

The charges, announced Wednesday, concern former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report detailing his criminal investigation into Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents, which Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon has ordered should be kept confidential since the case was thrown out after Trump was elected to a second term.

On Sept. 22, 2025, Lineberger allegedly first compiled a document containing internal DOJ communications, naming the document “Chocolate_cake_recipe.pdf” and sending it to her personal email with the subject line, “chocolate cake recipe.”

In December, she then allegedly downloaded a copy of the confidential final report on the classified documents investigation, retitled the file as “Bundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf,” and sent that file to her personal email address as well.

more at link

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/05/20/prosecutor-tried-hiding-secret-trump-report-in-a-bundt-cake-recipe-indictment-alleges/

(hope she emailed this to someone who can "break" out this final report from jack smith!)

[Tommy Carcetti]

1. "A Boont cake?"

Also, alleging that classified documents were mishandled in a case that centered around the mishandling of classified documents certainly is an interesting choice.

They don't get the irony?

[MustLoveBeagles]

2. Points for creativity

[Walleye]

3. We paid for that report. It was supposed to be made public. They make up the rules as they go.

[intheflow]

4. Why she didn't save them to an external thumb drive?

Emailing leaves a huge footprint.

[AZJonnie]

5. Presumably this means she also received them in her private email, which is important cause it means

Trump will have to worry about WHO in the world might have a copy of these documents for the REST OF HIS LIFE.

This woman is a hero even if all she ever did was sit on them. Even more so if there's someone out there ready to publish them, perhaps as an October surprise, because she forwarded them.

No matter what though, if she received those emails and attachments, and the mail server shows that they were downloaded? Trump will have to worry about it from here on out. Which I smile to ponder.

Someone doing so with Smith's Jan 6 report would be even more key, hope that some intrepid patriot smuggled that report out as well.

[tibby3k]

6. GoFundMe?

I hope someone starts a go fund me so we could show support.