UPDATE Summary of Garland-Smith DOJ Investigation of Twice Impeached,Federally Indicted Ex-President

[ancianita]

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Because no one is above the law.

Previous posts (most recent at the top)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217976026
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217635999



Here are names, the DOJ timelines, and links for additional reading.

Quick update summary:
-- new grand jury subpoenas, testimony;
-- district and appeals court judges (because judge names will come up) of DC and FL Southern District
-- relevant DOJ divisions & SC lead lawyers, and
-- Jack Smith contact info.
-- Jack Smith Indictment #1

No summary is perfect, so I'll gladly check out any suggested additions and put them in the OP.


1.
THE GARLAND DOJ TIMELINE:

Mar 10 2021: Merrick Garland confirmed as AG by Congress
Mar 11 2021: AG Garland assumes office

Apr 21 2021: Deputy AG Lisa O. Monaco assumes office

May 11 2022: DOJ Grand jury convened until March 2024

June 3 2022: DOJ Grand jury subpoenas Trump for remaining docs in Maralago, lawyers for Trump "certifying" that there were no more;

July 22 2022: Grand jury testimony by Marc Short, Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff; & Short's counsel Greg Jacob

Sept 2 2022: Grand jury subpoenaed testimony by Pat Cipollone, (one of the participants in
a) WH meeting Dec 18 2020, that included Giuliani, Powell, Flynn, Patrick Byrne of Overstock,
b) Cipollone sat in on Jan 3 2021 DOJ official meeting with Trump, and
c) Cipollone was in direct contact with trump on Jan 6 during capitol insurrection, and did nothing when Meadows told
him Trump didn’t want to interfere with rioters calling for hanging Mike Pence)
and Patrick Philbin
Sept 15 2022: Mark Meadows subpoena for testimony and documents
Sept 2022: Garland DOJ has issued over 30 subpoenas to people close to Trump, which include
— Bill Stepien, DT’s campaign mgr; part of team to prevent certification
— Sean Dollman, DT’s campaign CFO
— Ben Williamson, Depty of Mark Meadows,
— Boris Epshteyn, DT’s lawyer, phone demanded; part of team to prevent certification
— Mike Lindell, phone seized
— William Russell, WH spec. asst to Trump, spec. aide to Trump in Maralago

Oct 6 2022: Greg Jacob second time testifying before the grand jury
Oct 13 2022: Marc Short Mike Pence’s chief of staff, second time testifying before the grand jury

Nov 4 2022: classified docs found in Biden’s Wilmington home (garage, library), (no docs in Rehoboth beach home) and
Penn Biden Center in DC (Richard Sauber is spec counsel to Pres Biden)
Nov 14 2022: Garland asks John Lausch (Trump appointed US Atty, Chicago) to review found Biden documents

Nov 18, 2022: Garland appoints Special Counsel, John L. “Jack” Smith

Jan 12 2023: Garland appoints Special Counsel, Robert Hur (US Atty MD) to investigate Biden docs



2.
THE SPECIAL COUNSEL TIMELINE
Subpoenas issued by Special Counsel Jack Smith and, as of December 2022, co-signed by Assistant Special Counsel, Matthew Burke, including subpoenas previously issued by DOJ ; testimony dates aren’t known until reported by major news outlets

As of Dec 2022:
1. State officials of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Clark Cty, Nevada; New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Milwaukee Cty; Wisconsin
2. Dec 6 2022 — Stephen Miller senior advisor to DT subpoened testimony before the grand jury
3. Brad Raffensburger — DOJ subpoena turned over to Smith
4. Kenneth Chesebro — the guy who wrote crime fraud excepted emails to John Eastman, planning to have Congress object to GA electors so they could get a lawsuit before Clarence Thomas  
5. Justin Clark — the trump lawyer that was interviewed in the Bannon contempt case. He told the DoJ that Donald never
invoked executive privilege for Steve. He also told the 1/6 cmte that he refused to participate in the fraudulent
electors scheme

6. Joe DiGenova — lawyer for “fraud guarantee”. Rudy pal. Been on my fantasy indictment team for years. He was part of organizing the fraudulent electors scheme
7. John Eastman — another architect of the fraudulent elector scheme and the Pence pressure campaign. He tried
desperately to keep his crimey emails from the 1/6 committee, but judge Carter said it was more likely than not
that he and Donald violated 18 USC 371 & 1512c
8. Jenna Ellis — she was fired from her job as a parking ticket prosecutor and joined the Kraken strikeforce. She helped
spread the big lie and coordinated legislative “hearings” in multiple swing states to push the fraudulent electors
scheme
9. Rudolph Giuliani — one of the main organizers of the elector scheme - holding fake legislative hearings, peddling the
big lie, attacking election workers. His law license is suspended.
10. Bernard Kerik — he emailed Rudy & Meadows conceding they didn’t have any evidence of voter fraud & they
needed to focus on the fraudulent elector scheme. His lawyer, Parlatore, is paid by the Save America PAC which
is also under criminal investigation.

11. Bruce Marks — he coordinated the swing state pressure campaign with Mike Roman, Epshteyn, and other trump
lawyers. He’s not the brightest bulb, having referred to Cleta Mitchell as Clavita, and calling Arizona Nevada.
12. Cleta Mitchell — friend of Ginni. Marks can’t say her name properly. Helped coordinate the Ellipse rally and worked on
the fraudulent elector scheme.
13. Matthew Morgan — trump lawyer who signed off on Eastman’s SCOTUS brief on behalf of the trump campaign in
support of the Texas lawsuit against the swing states.
14. Kurt Olsen — spoke to Donald multiple times on 1/6. It was his idea to use the Justice Dept. to overturn the
election results. He called the 1/6 hearings “Soviet show trials” and sued to block a subpoena. He’s not important
enough to have a photo online
15. William Olson — called Donald on Christmas Day 2020 and suggested martial law, firing acting AG Rosen, tampering
with the DOJ, AND he’s so smart he wrote all the crime ideas down in a memo and sent it to trump.

16. Stefan Passantino — paid for by the Save America PAC. He was the scumbag that repped Cassidy Hutchinson and
was paid handsomely by trump to do so until she realized he wasn’t looking out for her best interests. She fired him
and hired a different lawyer, then she testified.
17. Sidney Powell — Kraken lawyer slapped with sanctions for bogus election lawsuits. She was at the 12/18 Oval
meeting. Donald wanted to appoint her special counsel to fabricate election fraud to give the states a reason to
appoint trump electors.
18. Victoria Toensing — DiGenova’s partner. Repped Fraud Gaurantee. Was part of the fraudulent electors scheme. She
was included on an emails sent by Christina Bobb updating folks on Trump's effort to speak to officials in multiple states to pitch alternate electors.
19. James Troupis — he was a recipient of Chesebro’s fraudulent elector scheme memo. He communicated with Ron
Johnson asking him to hand deliver fraudulent elector certificates.
20. L. Lin Wood, Sr. — loudmouth election denier who filed multiple lawsuits to overturn the will of the people in Georgia.
He’s being investigated by the state bar. He once posted that they should get a firing squad ready for the former VP.

As of Jan 2023:
21. Ken Cucinelli testifies before grand jury
22. Two unnamed persons testified to grand jury about their hired search of four locations —Trump’s Bedminster golf club, Trump Tower in NYC, an office location in Florida and a storage unit in Florida
23. Kash Patel — given a grant of limited immunity — personally authorized by Merrick Garland, for
the Aug 8 2022 search of Trump’s Florida property — re information on over 15 boxes of government records containing classified, and 100 top-secret documents, seized in the FBI’s warrant,
24. M. Evan Corcoran -- one of Trump's lawyers involved in Maralago documents obstruction; SC Smith has moved to pierce the attorney/client privilege shield — to find out WHO MADE THE STATEMENTS that the docs were complete
25. Multiple subpoenas issued for
a) information on how individuals are paying for any legal representation, either by themselves or via an outside
party,
b) information about multiple Trump-aligned fundraising vehicles and groups that have formed since Trump entered the political arena, including Turning Points USA, a right-wing group that targets younger GOP voters.
26. Mark Meadows — Trump’s WH Chief of Staff, subpoenaed for documents and testimony


As of Feb 2023:
27. Marc Short— Mike Pence’s chief of staff, third time testifying before grand jury

28. Robert O'Brien -- Trump's US National Security Advisor
29. Christina Bobb — Trump’s lawyer involved in Maralago documents obstruction
30. Alina Habba — Trump’s lawyer involved in Maralago documents obstruction
31. Ivanka Trump   
Jared Kushner                                                                                                                                                         

As of Mar 2023:
33. 12+ employees and Trump inner circle at Maralago; e.g., housekeeper, restaurant servers
34. Margo Martin, Trump’s former Trump WH adviser, now communications director at Maralago
35. Evan Corcoran, second time testifying before the grand jury
36. So ordered by Judge Howell to testify before the Smith criminal grand jury to answer questions re exactly what Trump directly said about what he planned, what they said to him; and which invokes the 5th & negotiates immunity, #’s 36 - 43:

— Mark Meadows, Trump chief of staff, who was with tfg everytime Trump had meetings to plan any stopping of the transfer of power

37. John Ratcliffe, DNI
38. Robert O’Brien, national security adviser during the days when the US military thought tfg would foment chaos,
and that he’d know about Trump’s transfer of documents to Maralago
39. Stephen Miller, former Trump top aide, who knew what Trump was thinking re his Ellipse speech and later tweet
about Pence
40. Dan Scavino, former deputy chief of staff & social media director
41. Nick Luna, former Trump aide, the conferer with the Secret Service re taking Trump to the Capitol
42. John McEntee, former Trump aide
43. Ken Cuccinelli, ruled illegal as Acting USCIS Director at DHS; later, senior aide to acting DHS director Chad Wolf


As of April 2023
44. Richard Grenell (former acting DNI ) testified on Trump’s handling of classified docso
45. Mike Pence testifies for 7.5 hours before grand jury (ordered by Judge Boasberg);
SC Smith sits in for 5 hrs
46. Multiple U.S. Secret Service agents connected to former President Donald Trump's security detail

As of May 2023
47. Walt Nauta (Trump’s valet) testifies re the moving of stolen classified documents
48. Trump Organization Matthew Calamari Sr. (CEO), and Matthew Calamari, Jr. (Director of Security), testify before
the Smith criminal grand jury
49. Trump organization records related to real estate licensing and development dealings in 7 different countries since 2017 (China, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman)

As of June 2023
50. A Miami Florida criminal grand jury hears testimony from Mar-a-Lago employees
51. Mark Meadows, given partial immunity, testifies before the DC criminal grand jury
52. 20 of Trump’s Secret Service detail have testified before the DC criminal grand jury
53. Taylor Budowich, former Trump aide & spokesperson, testifies before Florida criminal grand jury
54 Steve Bannon subpoenaed for testimony and documents by the DC criminal grand jury
55. Newt Gingrich, former Repub House Speaker, before the DC criminal grand jury

3.
JUNE 8 2023 -- JACK SMITH INDICTS TRUMP IN THE COURT OF THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA, MIAMI

UNSEALED INDICTMENT DOCUMENT -- THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA VS. DONALD J. TRUMP
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.3.0.pdf


(See Florida's Southern District Judges below. This section will be updated with further indictments, timelines & documents.)



4.
Garland actions related to Special Counsel investigations:

Jan 2022
— 15 boxes found in the storage area
— the FBI found more than 11,000 government records at Maralago — of those
— 184 unique documents bearing classification markings, of those:
— 67 docs marked Confidential
— 92 docs marked Secret
— 25 docs marked Top Secret
markings reflected that docs were subject to sensitive compartments and dissemination controls
used to restrict access to material in the interest of national security, including
HCS(Humint Control system), FISA(Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), ORCON
(originator controlled), NORORN (could be NOFORN, no foreign national), AND
SI(Special Intelligence)
May 2022
— The first 100 docs marked as classified totaled over 700 pages [National Archives letter to Trump attorney, May 10, 2022]
— Grand Jury subpoena to Trump for documents
June 3 2022
— Trump lawyer hands over 40 boxes from Maralago storage room
— 38 docs marked Classified
August 8 2022
— FBI warrant search of Maralago
— 103 marked Classified
— 18 marked Top Secret

2023 (the following dates are by news reports, not dates when Smith actually took possession, which will be known at filings)
— Jack Smith is in possession of all communications within Trump's inner circle, which in 2022 Trump tried to block through courts, claiming ‘privilege’.
— A laptop and thumb drive belonging to a former Oval Office aide, Chamberlain Harris, were handed over.
Harris had scanned some documents (including Trump's travel schedules) onto her two devices, claiming to be unaware they were Classified
— 50 pages of notes from M. Evan Corcoran re his communications with Trump and documents at Maralago; the notes provide insight into Trump’s and Nauta’s knowledge of Corcoran’s activities, including when & whee he planned to conduct his search for classified record
-- an video/audio tape in which Trump notes his possession of classified documents



5.
KEY ATTORNEYS OF THE 20 DOJ ATTORNEYS ON THE GARLAND- SMITH TEAM:

-- Thomas Windom, DOJ criminal grand jury counsel under Garland
-- Raymond Hulser, DOJ's Public Integrity Division wh/ handled mafia, money laundering and corruption cases
-- David Harback, of O'Melveny & Myers; former DOJ Public Integrity Division deputy chief conducting jury trials; former Kosovo trial lawyer in the Hague
-- Matthew Burke — cosigner of subpoenas with Jack Smith
— James I. Pearce, from the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Sectiontrial prosecutor and appeals lawyer for Smith on --- Jan 6 Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section https://www.justice.gov/criminal-pin




6.
Four criminal grand juries are at work in the DOJ in DC until March 2024;
1 criminal grand jury has been impaneled in Florida in June 2023
— one for Jan 6 insurrection; fake electors scheme; Trump intimidation of state leaders in GA;
— another for govt records; obstruction of justice in locating the records
— another for witness tampering
— another for election campaign wire fraud



7.
JAN 6 COMMITTEE CRIMINAL REFERRALS:

--October 21 2022, the committee subpoenaed Donald Trump for documents and testimony.
Trump refused to comply, opening the possibility that the House could vote to hold him in contempt and the Justice
Department could then charge him with criminal contempt of Congress.
-- November 11 his lawyers sued to block the subpoena. In their initial court filing, they characterized the committee’s
investigation as a "quasi-criminal inquest".
-- December 19 2022, the committee criminally referred Trump to the DOJ for four suspected crimes.

----Obstruction of an Official Proceeding (18 U.S.C. § 1512(c))
----Conspiracy to Defraud the United States (18 U.S.C. § 371)
----Conspiracy to Make a False Statement (18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 1001)
----"Incite," "Assist" or "Aid and Comfort" an Insurrection (18 U.S.C. § 2383)

The Jan 6 Committee also criminally referred lawyer John Eastman for two of those charges:
— obstruction of an official proceeding and
— conspiracy to defraud the United States.


8.
Federal charges are filed by the DOJ in the US District Court of DC.

Judges (as of May 1 2023):

Chief Judge James Boasberg (Obama)
District Judge Beryl Howell (Obama)
District Judge Rudolph Contreras (Obama)

DJ Christopher R. Cooper (Obama)
DJ Tanya S Chutkan (Obama)
DJ Randolph Moss (Obama)

DJ Amit Mehta (Obama)
DH Timothy J. Kelly (Trump)
DJ Trevor N. McFadden (Trump)

DJ Dabney L. Friedrich (Trump)
DJ Carl J. Nicols (Trump)
DJ Jia M. Cobb (Biden)

DJ Ana C. Reyes (Biden)
DJ Joyce Hens Green (Carter)
DJ Thomas F. Hogan (Reagan)

DJ Royce Lamberth (Reagan)
DJ Paul L. Friedman (Clinton)
DJ Emmet G. Sullivan (Clinton)

DJ Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (Clinton)
DJ Henry H. Dennedy Jr (Clinton)
DJ Richard W. Roberts (Clinton)

DJ Ellen Segal Huvelle (Clinton)
DJ Reggie Walton (GW Bush)
DJ Hohn kD. Bates (GW Bush)

DJ Richard J. Leon (GW Bush)
DJ Rosemary M. Collyer (GW Bush)
DJ Amy Berman Jackson (Obama)


US COURT OF APPEALS JUDGES:

Sri Srinivasan, Chief Judge
216-7080
Karen LeCraft Henderson
216-7340
Patricia A. Millett
216-7340
Cornelia T.L. Pillard
216-7340
Robert L. Wilkins
216-7240
Gregory G. Katsas
216-7340
Neomi Rao
216-7180
Justin R. Walker
216-7340
J. Michelle Childs
216-7590
Florence Y. Pan
216-7070
Bradley N. Garcia
216-7340
Harry T. Edwards
216-7340
Douglas H. Ginsburg
216-7190
David B. Sentelle
216-7330
A. Raymond Randolph
216-7425
Judith W. Rogers
216-7340
David S. Tatel
216-7340


Federal charges will also be filed by the DOJ in the Southern District Court of Florida

DJ Cecilia Altonaga Chief Judge (GW Bush)
DJ Kevin Michael Moore (GHW Bush)
DJ Donald M. Middlebooks (Clinton)

DJ William Dimitrouleas (Clinton)
DJ Jose E. Martinez (GW Bush)
DJ Kathleen M. Williams (Obama)

DJ Robert N. Scola, Jr. (Obama)
DJ Darrin P. Gayles (Obama)
DJ Beth Bloom (Obama)

DJ Robin L. Rosenberg (Obama)
DJ Roy Altman (Trump)
DJ Rodolfo Ruiz (Trump)

DJ Rodney Smith (Trump)
DJ Raag Singhal (Trump)
DJ Aileen Cannon (Trump)

DJ James Lawrence King (Nixon)
JDJ ose Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. (Carter)
DJ William J. Zioch (Reagan)

DJ Federico A. Moreno (GHW Bush)
DJ Donald L. Graham (GHW Bush)
DJ Daniel T. K. Hurley (Clinton)

DJ Joan A. Lenard (Clinton)
DJ Patricia A. Seitz (Clinton)
DJ Paul Huck (Clinton)

DJ Kenneth Marra (GW Bush)
DJ James I. Cohn (GW Bush)


U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, 11TH CIRCUIT JUDGES:

William H. Pryor, Jr. Chief Judge
Charles R. Wilson
Adalberto Jordan

Robin S. Rosenbaum
Jill A. Pryor
Kevin C. Newsom

Elizabeth L. Branch
Britt C. Grant
Robert J. Luck

Barbara Lagoa
Andrew L. Brasher
Nancy G. Abudu

Gerald Bard Tjoflat
R. Lanier Anderson III
J.L. Edmonson

Joel F. Dubina
Susan H. Black
Ed Carnes

Frank M. Hull
Stanley Marcus
Julie E. Carnes


9.
OTHER DOJ HIGH GOV LEVEL CONVICTIONS:

Oct 21 2022: Steve Bannon sentenced to four months (convicted July 2022)

— still outstanding is NY State's charge of fraud over “we build the wall"

Dec 6 2022: both the Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg are convicted of felonies

Mar 20 2023: six Oath Keepers are convicted of seditious conspiracy, sentenced May 2023

May 4 2023: four Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy, to be sentenced August 2023




10.
Further Reading on the Garland-Smith DOJ:

Garland investigation into Jan 6 prior to Smith, and since https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Justice_Department_investigation_into_attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_presidential_election



On Jack Smith himself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(lawyer)

Jack Smith's investigation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_special_counsel_investigation

CONTACT JACK SMITH

Department of Justice
Special Counsel’s Office
950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
​​​​​​​Room B-206
Washington, D.C. 20530

https://www.justice.gov/sco-smith


SPECIAL COUNSEL ROLE —
originally written by former SCOTUS solicitor general Neat Katyal


https://www.brookings.edu/testimonies/attorney-generals-special-counsel-regulations/
SPECIAL COUNSEL ROLE

https://www.brookings.edu/testimonies/attorney-generals-special-counsel-regulations/

Neal Katyal op-ed on how the rules have been misused:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/opinion/merrick-garland-barr-durham.html

[ancianita]

1. I'm throwing a party for each and every indictment! GO, JACK SMITH!! I AM SO HAPPY!

[malaise]

2. I'm coming

😀😀😀😀

[ancianita]

3. Seriously, I'll fly you in!

[SheilaAnn]

4. And I'll get there by hook or by crook to meet malaise..LOL. n/t

[Johnny2X2X]

5. 325 classified documents!

That's what the've found. The media is going to repeat the 103 number over and over.

But they found 184 in January of 2022, 38 in Juine of 2022, and another 103 in August of 2022.

And I think we're about to find out there there are hundreds of missing classified documents that they know he took but can't find.

[Cha]

6. KICK TY

[ancianita]

7. TY back, Cha!

[bigtree]

8. k&r