Alina Habba, a lawyer for former U.S. President Donald Trump, has also testified before a grand jury as part of an investigation into the discovery of classified documents at the New York tycoon’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
Habba is the third Trump lawyer to be subpoenaed by this Washington grand jury, charged with investigating whether the former White House tenant incurred in a violation of government laws and has tried to obstruct judicial proceedings, two sources close to the investigations have indicated in statements to CNN.
Although the lawyer has not played a role as relevant as other Trump lawyers, more media profile, has defended Trump on numerous occasions and has criticized the evidence collected by the FBI.
Habba has also led Trump’s case in New York, where the state attorney general, Letitia James, has filed charges for alleged tax fraud. In this regard, the lawyer herself has defended that she herself searched Trump’s homes before the FBI conducted its own operation.
In fact, investigators believe that their goal was to recover any Trump Organization documents that were of interest to James, although she has defended that she did not find any documents that fell under the prosecutor’s subpoena.
Now, the U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to circumvent attorney-client privilege to get more answers from Trump’s legal team as the investigation proceeds.
Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to activate an exception used in the United States for the possibility that such privilege facilitates the concealment of the commission of a crime or if the legal advice was requested precisely with the idea of committing a crime.
The fact that prosecutors have asked for this exception to be applied shows that they believe that such services could have been used fraudulently. Among the questions the Justice Department has been addressing since last year is whether Trump and his associates obstructed justice by failing to comply with demands to return government documents after leaving office.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
