Justice Department unseals Donald Trump indictment
Donald Trump is the first former president in history to face a federal criminal indictment.
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Robert Legare is a CBS News multiplatform reporter and producer covering the Justice Department, federal courts and investigations. He has covered Justice Department policies and law enforcement initiatives, several special counsel investigations and the sprawling probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. After graduating from the College of the Holy Cross, he worked as an associate producer for the "CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell."
Donald Trump is the first former president in history to face a federal criminal indictment.
The charges would be the first to arise from special counsel Jack Smith's investigations into former President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump's legal team has been informed that the former president is a target of the federal criminal investigation into possible mishandling of classified information.
Parlatore thinks a charging decision could come within weeks, and he says Trump's legal team has a plan to respond.
A number of former Trump aides have already testified before the grand jury investigating the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
In addition to the Washington, D.C., grand jury that has been investigating Trump's retention of classified records after his presidency, a Florida grand jury has been impaneled.
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer had earlier planned to move ahead with efforts to hold the FBI director in contempt of Congress.
Several sources with knowledge of the investigation believe that a charging decision in the documents case involving former President Donald Trump is imminent.
In the recording, Trump acknowledged he kept a classified Pentagon document after he left the White House.
A jury convicted Watkins last year of several felony counts but she was acquitted of the most serious charge, seditious conspiracy.
Seditious conspiracy "is among the most serious crimes an individual American can commit," Judge Amit Mehta said.
In an unusual move, the former president's legal team called the investigations into Jan. 6 and the retention of classified documents an "injustice."
A photo of Richard Barnett seated at a desk in then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office became one of the most indelible images of Jan. 6.
The release of special counsel John Durham's report on the origins of the FBI investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election comes four years after he began his probe.
Former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page sued the Justice Department after they were fired from the FBI.