Attorneys M. Evan Corcoran, left, and David Schoen arrive to represent Steve Bannon on contempt of Congress charges, in Washington on July 20, 2022.
Government investigators almost never obtain a clear lens into a lawyer’s private dealings with their clients, let alone with such a prominent one as Trump. A recording like the voice memo Corcoran made last year — during a long drive to a family event, according to two people briefed on the recording — is typically shielded by attorney-client or work-product privilege.
The level of detail in the recording is said to have angered and unnerved close aides to Trump who are worried that they contain direct quotes from sensitive conversations. In an early scene in his account, Corcoran describes meeting Trump at Mar-a-Lago last spring to help him handle a subpoena that had just been issued by a federal grand jury in Washington seeking the return of all classified material in the possession of his presidential office, the people familiar with the matter said.
The recording also describes how Corcoran conducted a search of a Mar-a-Lago storage room in an effort to comply with the subpoena’s request for documents, the people familiar with the account said. Corcoran told a grand jury in May that several employees at the compound had told him everything he needed was being kept in the storage room, located in the basement of the property, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The issue of who moved boxes into and out of the storage room — and why — has become one of the central parts of Smith’s investigation. Prosecutors have focused much of their attention on Walt Nauta, an aide to Trump who took part in moving boxes, and on another Mar-a-Lago employee, Carlos Deoliveira, a maintenance worker who helped Nauta.
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