WASHINGTON — U.S. District Court Judge Raymond J. Dearie was named as special master to review all 11,000 documents seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last month.
The Justice Department and Trump’s attorneys had agreed that Dearie would be a suitable candidate, one of the rare moments of consensus in a case otherwise rife with politics and dispute.
“The Special Master shall review all of the materials seized during the August 8, 2022, execution of a court-authorized search warrant” at Mar-a-Lago, U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, said in in announcing the appointment Thursday. She gave Dearie until Nov. 30 to complete the review, and ordered Trump to pay the full cost of the review.
