A federal appeals court on Tuesday dismissed indictments against former co-defendants of President Trump, ending the classified documents case that began almost two years ago in south Florida.
The Atlanta-based US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit threw out the charges against Trump’s valet Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, an employee at Mar-a-Lago who were accused of conspiring with the president to conceal classified files.
The unsigned order to dismiss was filed more than three weeks after the Justice Department had requested an end to the legal challenge upon Trump taking office Jan. 20.
A court clerk filed the unsigned order to dismiss after the Justice Department had requested an end to the legal challenge when Trump took office in January.
Nauta had been hit with eight criminal counts and De Oliveira with four charges for making false statements and obstruction of justice.
De Oliveira was also accused of deleting security footage at the president’s Palm Beach, Fla., resort showing boxes of classified files being shifted out of the eye of federal authorities — and Trump’s own lawyer.
