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Uwa Ede-Osifo

Ex-DoJ prosecutor charged with sending sealed Jack Smith Trump report to personal email

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Jack Smith before the House judiciary committee in Washington in January. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

A former Department of Justice prosecutor is facing felony charges after emailing herself a sealed Biden-era investigative report concerning Donald Trump and attempting to hide the documents as cake recipes, federal authorities said on Wednesday.

Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, who worked as a managing assistant US attorney in Florida, is facing two counts of theft of government money or property in addition to charges related to her alleged alteration of the documents, according to the indictment.

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