A key witness against former President Donald Trump and his two co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago documents case recanted previous false testimony and provided new information implicating the defendants after he switched lawyers, special counsel Jack Smith’s office said in a new court filing.
Yuscil Taveras, the director of information technology at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s club in Palm Beach, Florida, changed his testimony last month about efforts to delete security camera video at the club after he changed from a lawyer paid for by Trump’s Save America PAC to a public defender, Tuesday’s filing says.
Oh for sure. With the amount of billable hours in something that gets dragged out like this, I wouldn’t be able to afford a non public defender and I do well for myself. I’ve had a couple instance where I had legal bills in the thousands but it wasn’t hours and hours of shit to work through. This is definitely the financially sound decision.