The judge who approved the search warrant against ex-president Donald Trump's South Florida property has left the federal attorney's office in the area. reported. Representing an employee of late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Judge Bruce Reinhart reportedly approved a warrant allowingFBI agents to raid Mar Arago on Monday night, according to the New York Post. I'm here.The New York Post reports.
"My beautiful home in Palm Beach, Florida, Mar-a-Lago, is currently under siege and raided by a large group of FBI agents. is occupied by," Trumpsaid in a statement. "They broke into my safe too!"
The former president also claimed the raid was "unannounced."
In January the National Archives and Records Administration found 15 boxes on the property containing items "marked as classified national security information," it said. New York State Rep. Carolyn Maloney, chair of the Oversight and Reform Committee, US archivist David Ferriero, said in a letter sent in February this year:
Judge Reinhart became a magistrate in 2018 after ten years in private practice. In her November of that year, the Miami Herald reported that a judge had represented multiple Epstein staffers in connection with an investigation into sex trafficking allegations.
The paper reported that Judge Reinhart left the South Florida Attorney's Office on his New Year's Day 2008, and the next day he began representing Epstein employees.
Members of Epstein's staff represented by Judge Reinhardt included his privateer his pilot, scheduler Sarah Keren, and Nadia Marcinkova. Post reported.
Ms Keren and Ms Marcinkova were granted immunity in a 2007 agreement with federal prosecutors that allowed Epstein to plead guilty at the state level rather than the federal level.
He served 13 months in the county jail and was cleared to go to work. He was later found dead in a Manhattan Correctional Center in August 2019 after an apparent suicide. At the time, he was awaiting trial on federal charges of sex trafficking.
The Independent has reached out to the Southern District of Florida Court for comment.
