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This then begs the question, how reliable are documents that are filed in federal courts?
When a government document mysteriously appeared this week in one of the highest-profile cases in the federal court system, it had the hallmarks of another explosive storyline in the Biden administration’s investigation of former President Donald Trump following the FBI raid on his Florida estate and seizure of what the Department of Justice described as classified records.
The document purported to be from the U.S. Treasury Department, claimed that the agency had seized sensitive documents related to last month’s FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago and included a warrant ordering CNN to preserve “leaked tax records.”
The document remained late Thursday on the court docket, but there’s one problem: It is a clear fabrication.
A review of dozens of court records and interviews by The Associated Press suggest the document originated with a serial forger behind bars at a federal prison complex in North Carolina.
The incident also suggests that the court clerk was easily tricked into believing it was real, landing the document on the public docket in the Mar-a-Lago search warrant case.
It also highlights the vulnerability of the U.S. court system and raises questions about the court’s vetting of documents that purport to be official records.
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When a government document mysteriously appeared this week in one of the highest-profile cases in the federal court system, it had the hallmarks of another explosive storyline in the Biden administration’s investigation of former President Donald Trump following the FBI raid on his Florida estate and seizure of what the Department of Justice described as classified records.
The document purported to be from the U.S. Treasury Department, claimed that the agency had seized sensitive documents related to last month’s FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago and included a warrant ordering CNN to preserve “leaked tax records.”
The document remained late Thursday on the court docket, but there’s one problem: It is a clear fabrication.
A review of dozens of court records and interviews by The Associated Press suggest the document originated with a serial forger behind bars at a federal prison complex in North Carolina.
The incident also suggests that the court clerk was easily tricked into believing it was real, landing the document on the public docket in the Mar-a-Lago search warrant case.
It also highlights the vulnerability of the U.S. court system and raises questions about the court’s vetting of documents that purport to be official records.
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