A federal judge on Friday ordered Trump attorney Evan Corcoran to turn over evidence in what she described as an alleged "criminal scheme" after special counsel Jack Smith's team argued that former President Donald Trump "deliberately misled" his own attorneys about classified materials at Mar-a-Lago, according to ABC News.
Prosecutors asked Judge Beryl Howell, the chief judge of the D.C. district court, to pierce Corcoran's claims of attorney-client privilege, invoking the crime-fraud exception, which suggests that prosecutors believe Corcoran's services were used in furtherance of a crime. Corcoran led Trump's negotiations with the Justice Department last summer and drafted an affidavit affirming that Trump had returned all classified materials from Mar-a-Lago in response to a grand jury subpoena before the FBI found 100 more classified documents in an August search.
