The Mar-a-Lago employee in charge of the Florida club’s surveillance camera system received a letter last month from federal authorities suggesting that he is a potential target in the ongoing criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, CNN revealed Sunday.
Yuscil Taveras, who the network identified as “Trump Employee 4” in Thursday’s revised charging document against Trump, met with and provided testimony to investigators that led, in part, to the new indictment filed last week.
The document, which also added a third defendant to the case, Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker Carlos De Oliveira, outlined an instance in which Taveras was approached by De Oliveira and urged to delete security footage from the club’s servers.
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“De Oliveira told Trump Employee 4 that ‘the boss’ wanted the server deleted,” the indictment reads. Taveras responded by saying he didn’t think he “would have the rights to do that”—which prompted De Oliveira to press him, at one point asking, “What are we going to do?”
Despite the request, it does not appear any footage was deleted.
A statement issued by Trump’s campaign team following the indictment called the new charges “nothing more than a continued desperate and flailing attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their Department of Justice to harass President Trump and those around him.”
“Deranged Jack Smith knows that they have no case and is casting about for any way to salvage their illegal witch hunt and to get someone other than Donald Trump to run against Crooked Joe Biden.”
Taveras has not been charged in connection with the case—and it remains unclear whether he will be.
