The special counsel also reveals that while 'no documents were moved from one box to another' investigators were 'not focused on maintaining the sequence of documents within each box.' storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

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Just in: When the FBI seized classified materials during its search of Mar-a-Lago, it replaced the actual sensitive documents in the boxes with 'placeholder' sheets.
But prosecutors say there was so much classified material that agents ran out of placeholders.

Reason for the high fine - according to govt's sentencing memo Nichols declined to provide any info on his finances so, unlike other defendants, hadn't shown an inability to pay. He's also benefited from 1/6 fundraising, and was among the defendants in the J6 prison choir.

“We are not yet seeking jail,” Conroy says about the four alleged violations, citing the desire to prevent disruptions to the proceedings. Peter Charalambous x.com/KFaulders/stat…

“He places this process and proceeding here in jeopardy,” Conroy said of Trump. x.com/KFaulders/stat…

“That is what the order forbids, and he did it anyway,” prosecutor Christopher Conroy said about Trump’s remarks about the composition of the jury.

.@DevinDwyer has an exclusive look at what the Pentagon is doing to combat PFAS.

NEW: Michael Cohen is cashing in on the Trump trial with TikTok livestreams - and it could be a problem

ABC News watched hours of his nightly streams and found the star witness discussing the trial & blasting Trump to viewers' donations

w Olivia Rubin
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Biggest takeaways in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial as we head into the 2nd week. ABC's Aaron Katersky has more details on the case.

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'Like when my kids lock themselves in the bathroom,' lawyer John Irving explained.

😳 The door to the storage room in Mar-a-Lago where Trump stored highly classified docs had a pinhole doorknob that could be unlocked… via coathanger, a witness told investigators per newly released exhibits.

Barrett and Jackson both open the door to allowing Smith to proceed to trial on Trump's 'private acts' even if immunity for 'official acts' remains subject to litigation.

Government says that would be acceptable

Katanji Brown Jackson says that if a president goes into office with no penalty for potential criminal acts, she worries that the Oval Office could be turned 'into the seat of criminal activity in the country.'

'We've never answered whether a president can do that ...happily it's never been presented to us,' Gorsuch says regarding the question of whether a president can pardon themselves (which Trump has publicly stated he believes he could have done if he wanted to)

Harvey Weinstein’s conviction in New York has been overturned by the state’s top court, per Aaron Katersky

“Several witnesses told Jack Smith's team that they routinely saw classified documents or classified folders in Trump's White House residence…”

“And that Trump would sometimes store as many as 30 boxes in his bedroom, which one valet said Trump treated 'like a junk drawer.'

One of Trump's former advisers joked with Jack Smith's team last year that bringing up Russia during a meeting with Trump was like 'stick[ing] my hand in the woodchipper again,” sources told us. More details w/ Mike Levine & Alex Mallin
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And at one point, sources said the valet recalled, he even warned the staff secretary's office that classified documents were being taken out of secure locations in white boxes and ending up in all sorts of potentially concerning places.

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'A wide array of former [Trump] aides and advisers ... have provided Smith with firsthand accounts about how Trump allegedly handled and used intelligence while still in office.' via Katherine Faulders Mike Levine Alex Mallin
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As early as 2018, the Office of the Staff Secretary, which manages docs flowing to the Oval Office, began asking personnel in the White House about docs that had gone missing, including some classified ones, one of Trump's valets told investigators x.com/KFaulders/stat…