U.S. District Court Judge Raymond Dearie, a New York City-based jurist named by a federal judge in Florida to act as a so-called special master in the review of more than 11,000 documents the FBI confiscated, proposed on Thursday that former Magistrate Judge James Orenstein help with the process…
Orenstein spent 16 years as a federal magistrate in the same Brooklyn courthouse where Dearie sits…
Dearie proposed that the former magistrate, who has a top secret clearance, be paid $500 an hour for work on the Trump documents case. The federal judge who named Dearie as special master, Florida-based Aileen Cannon, has previously ruled that Trump must assume all expenses related to the review.
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A highly regarded lawyer for Donald Trump has been sidelined less than a month after he was hired to defend against the investigation into government documents kept at Mar-a-Lago, according to CNN.
In mid-September, media reports found that former Florida Solicitor General Chris Kise was paid a whopping $3 million advance to represent the former president after the FBI seized 11,000 sensitive files from his Florida home in August.
However, Kise was officially sidelined from the federal probe by Tuesday. CNN reported that the lawyer is expected to stay on Trump’s legal team but will not be leading the defense. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/27/politics/chris-kise-trump-mar-a-lago/index.html
Kise’s $3 million retainer fee, which was paid upfront by Trump’s outside spending arm, raised eyebrows among other lawyers on Trump’s team, given the former President has a developed a reputation for not paying his legal fees.
“Trump Mar-a-Lago special master struck down by appeals court
The three-judge panel said Judge Aileen Cannon erred in appointing a special master to review documents seized by the FBI” https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/01/trump-cannon-special-master-rejected/
“PER CURIAM: This appeal requires us to consider whether the district court had jurisdiction to block the United States from using lawfully seized records in a criminal investigation. The answer is no.”
“…The district court improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction in this case. For that reason, we VACATE the September 5 order on appeal and REMAND with instructions for the district court to DISMISS the underlying civil action.”
Thursday’s unanimous ruling, which Trump may appeal to the Supreme Court, means criminal investigators can again access the unclassified documents that were recovered in the search.
USCA11 Case: 22-13005 Donald J. Trump versus United States of America. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida D.C. Docket No. 9:22-cv-81294-AMC
Opinion of the Court [.pdf] https://docs-cdn-prod.news-engineering.aws.wapo.pub/publish_document/5c87d9b8-631f-41c7-92e8-129f412d0e0f/published/5c87d9b8-631f-41c7-92e8-129f412d0e0f.pdf