Alina Habba, an lawyer for former President Donald Trump, appeared final month earlier than a federal grand jury investigating the mishandling of categorized paperwork from his time within the White Home, two sources accustomed to the investigation informed CNN.
Habba is the third Trump lawyer recognized to have been introduced earlier than the DC-based grand jury, which is investigating obstruction along with prison violations of presidency information legal guidelines.
Whereas Habba has not performed the distinguished function that different Trump attorneys have performed in responding to the paperwork probe, which spilled out in public view with an August FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, she has made notable TV appearances defending Trump and criticizing the federal paperwork probe.
Habba additionally has been a lead lawyer in litigation associated to New York Legal professional Common Letitia James’ civil case in opposition to the Trump household and their enterprise for alleged monetary fraud. In that function, she personally searched a number of Trump properties – together with Trump’s residence and personal workplace at Mar-a-Lago – weeks earlier than the FBI search.
She was tasked with recovering any Trump Group paperwork that James was searching for however informed a New York courtroom she didn’t discover any information coated by the subpoena from the lawyer basic.
Habba’s spokesperson declined to touch upon her current look within the federal paperwork probe.
Since Justice Division particular counsel Jack Smith has taken over the federal investigation, it has taken important steps. Trump attorneys Evan Corcoran and Christina Bobb lately appeared earlier than the grand jury as effectively, CNN reported final week.
Corcoran was in touch with federal officers because the efforts to retrieve and scrutinize the paperwork in query ramped up final 12 months. He additionally drafted a press release – finally signed by Bobb in June – asserting that Trump’s representatives had complied with a subpoena for paperwork marked as categorized that remained at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
Within the weeks after, the FBI got here to imagine that different categorized paperwork had been nonetheless at Mar-a-Lago and executed a search warrant in August.
Supply: CNN
