drop, a diligent search was conducted and removed from the white house of florida i swear, or affirm that the above statements are true and correct to the best of my knowledge. well, we now know that that wasn t the case, at all and prosecutors want to know why. the fbi found more than 100 classified documents when they searched the premises two months later. prosecutors later asserted to finding the documents that called into serious question the representative made in the june 3rd certification. and cast doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter. and other, words perhaps obstruction of justice. an appeals court ruled this week that evan corcoran must provide as well as documents and reporting mr. corcoran s expected to appear before the grand jury as early as tomorrow.
subpoena on donald trump s team, saying, you have to hand us over. all the documents you have left. now the next month, trump s team turns over a small pile of documents, but they also send in a certification when officials from the doj came tomorrow, lago right, exactly, so they gave him a certification that said, we ve looked everywhere and there are no documents left here zero. you have them all we know that was untrue, because two months later doj does the search warrant and they find 100 plus classified documents. so doj is now focused very much on that certification because if it was false, and it was full that could be a crime. here is what the certification specifically says quote. a diligent search was conducted of the boxes that were moved from the white house to florida and no copy written notation or reproduction of any kind was retained as to any responsive document. now that signature is blacked out there, but we know the person who signed it was donald trump s attorney,
attorneys to come before a grand jury and answer questions which he refused to do before citing attorney-client privilege in the past. his name is evan corcoran. a close confidante of the former president. he has been on legal team for more than a year. he declined to answer questions in the past about private diversification conversations he had with the former president. before the fbi raid of mar-a-lago in august of last year. corcoran in june had claimed trump s team had found no more classified material after a quote, diligent search of the premises. hundreds more documents were found at the estate after that statement about 100 had classified markings according to the justice department. however, chief judge barrel howell has ruled corcoran must come back before the grand jury and answer some of those questions about his interactions with trump. no comment from trump legal team tonight, but it is expected they will ask the new judge coming in over the weekend that is taking over
swearing that they conducted what they called a diligent search. that was their phrase, a diligent search. for all government documents in donald trump s possession at his florida home. that statement was written by evan corcoran and that statement proved to be false. six weeks later, the fbi executed a search warrant at the same property where the trump lawyers swore in writing there were no more documents in and the fbi found more than 100 additional classified documents and several hundred additional government documents that were illegally in donald trump s possession. the search warrant used by the fbi that day said there was, quote, probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction of justice would be found. the new york times reports tonight it was also not immediately clear whether the justice department suspects misconduct by mr. corcoran and
services have been used in furthering a crime. the fact the prosecutors invokes the exception in a sealed motion to compel the testimony of the lawyer evan corcoran suggests that they believe mr. trump or his allies might have used mr. corcoran s services in that way. evan corcoran is the lawyer who met with federal investigators yes last june and handed over more than 30 government documents in response to a justice department subpoena served on donald trump. at that time the donald another donald trump lawyer, christina bobb signed a statement swearing that they conducted what they called a diligent surge. that was their phrase, diligent search. for all government documents in donald trump s possession at his florida home. that statement was written by evan corcoran and that statement proved to be false. six weeks later, the fbi