A key witness against former President Donald Trump and his two co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago documents case recanted previous false testimony and provided new information implicating the defendants after he switched lawyers, special counsel Jack Smith’s office said in a new court filing.

Yuscil Taveras, the director of information technology at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s club in Palm Beach, Florida, changed his testimony last month about efforts to delete security camera video at the club after he changed from a lawyer paid for by Trump’s Save America PAC to a public defender, Tuesday’s filing says.

  • @markr
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    251 year ago

    Perjury to advantage his other client. There has to be a law against lawyers doing that.

    • Queen HawlSera
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      101 year ago

      I mean that sounds like fraud to me, is there a form of malpractice that applies to Legal cases? Like a lawyer version of medical malpractice.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 year ago

        I think Kim gets sued for something similar in Better Call Saul. It’s almost definitely something you can get disbarred over.

      • @Madison420
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        41 year ago

        Conflict of interest, it’s an ethical violation and at times grounds for mistrial by willfully ineffective counsel.

          • @Madison420
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            21 year ago

            No, both clients knew or should have known and thus no conflict of the lawyer has the correct paperwork provided.