A top Trump lawyer has recused himself from Mar-a-Lago documents case

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Source: Washington Post

One of former president Donald Trump’s top lawyers on the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case is no longer working on the matter after he appeared before a federal grand jury last month, according to people familiar with the move.

Corcoran is still representing Trump in other cases, such as special counsel Jack Smith’s probe into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information they are not allowed to disclose.

Prosecutors investigating Trump taking classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago Club after leaving office won a court fight that allowed them to question Corcoran when judges ruled that he could not use attorney-client privilege to avoid disclosing information about his communications with Trump. Prosecutors cited an exception to the legal principle that lawyers must keep confidential what they are told by their clients when there is evidence that a client used the attorney’s legal services in furtherance of a crime.

The move comes as the Justice Department is increasingly focused on possible obstruction by Trump in the investigation into the documents found at his Mar-a-Lago home, and whether Trump took or directed others to impede government efforts to collect all the sensitive records

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/15/trump-corcoran-mar-a-lago-documents/

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[Ocelot II]

1. Now that he's a witness (probably for the prosecution) he had no choice.

And not representing TFG is actually a good career move anyhow.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. This will be fun to watch

I remember coving the crime-fraud exception in the ethics course for the bar but not in my evidence class. This will be fun to watch

[Ocelot II]

8. I remember it from my ethics class, too - it seems to be a no-brainer,

but there is a lot of brainlessness going around these days. It will be very interesting to find out what TFG got Corcoran to do, and whether Corcoran will join the ranks of the many other sanctioned or disbarred lawyers who once tried to represent him.

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11. My oldest child was the editor in chief for one of the Univ. of Texas law journals

He got a notice from a slack group about this law journal article. The Texas journal that published this article were full of right wingers and Federalist Society people who were looked down upon by the other journals

[Ocelot II]

13. The one with the article Kacsmaryk had his name removed from?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217829474

[emulatorloo]

2. Of course he is. He is knee deep in the documents case, and has to testify to the Documents

Grand Jury, and turn over transcripts of conversations he had with Trump about the stolen documents.

Making Attorneys Get Attorneys!

[calimary]

3. Every time I've seen him on camera, he looks unhappy.

Maybe he’s one of those lawyers who represents shadowy figures or other bad guys and he only keeps doing it cuz it pays so well. He looks, to me, to be most uncomfortable with all the attention.

[jmowreader]

16. If you had to represent Donald Trump you'd look like that too

[calimary]

17. Yeah no kidding!

His face always seems to telegraph “how the hell did I get myself into this?”

[Walleye]

5. what lawyer would even want this stinky case, considering probably won't get paid

[3Hotdogs]

7. Not to worry about him getting paid. There was a lawyer on Sirius/XM who represented Trump in

his second impeachment trial before the Senate.

He said he didn't get into the limo to take him to the train station until he had a check that cleared.

They all know to get a retainer cashed before taking on a case.

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12. Hopefully he has a good retainer and was paid for his work

[ZonkerHarris]

18. as I recall he was the one who got a $3 million upfront retainer from Trump

so you know Trump's gonna make him work off the balance of that retainer even if he's not on this case.
This guy's gonna be doing mar a lago wedding and catering contracts for the next three years

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19. That was Chris Kise, a different TFG attorney

Chris Kise got that retainer https://politicalwire.com/2022/09/15/why-trump-has-to-pay-his-lawyer-in-advance/

Trump Had to Pay His Lawyer In Advance
September 15, 2022 at 3:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 246 Comments

The Wall Street Journal reports that the $3 million paid by Donald Trump’s Super PAC to his new lawyer, Chris Kise, was because the former president “was known not to pay some bills.”

“Mr. Kise avoided at least the issue of nonpayments by securing $3 million in advance and, if the case drags, the leeway to bill for more.”

[ZonkerHarris]

20. hard to keep all the greedy idiots straight

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21. TFG has a ton of attorneys

[ificandream]

6. Recusing himself won't make Dumb Donald happy. Remember Jeff Sessions?

Humpty Trumpty hates anyone showing their ethics since he doesn't have any.

[Ocelot II]

9. It's not really a recusal - that applies to judges - but a withdrawal

from representation, meaning TFG can't be his client any more - which is probably the best thing that could happen to Corcoran. Let's see if he gets to keep his license after all the dust has settled.

[moniss]

10. If he had any brains at this point

he would withdraw from the whole mess and not even bother to try and collect anything owed but just be thankful he was done with it all.

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14. BIG sign today that the Mar-a-Lago case is headed toward indictments and trial:

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15. Evan Corcoran recusing himself from the #Maralago Trump documents case "long overdue."

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