Federal prosecutors handling Trump henchman Walt Nauta’s case in Florida filed a motion Wednesday requesting a hearing to review if his attorney, Stanley Woodward, Jr., is conflicted because prosecutors intend to call at least three of his other clients as witnesses in the case, a new court filing shows.
The filing shows Woodward–a lawyer it took more than two weeks for Nauta to find and retain due to the complications of a national security case where the top-line defendant is an itinerate liar, rapist and national security risk–is also representing two people referred to as Witness 1 and Witness 2, as well as the person referred to as Trump Employee 4, who has been identified in respectable media as Yuscil Taveras, the Mar-a-Lago IT director.
Prosecutors have requested a Garcia hearing, a court procedure in which the judge and prosecutors ensure that the defendant is advised of his lawyer’s potential conflict. In at least one other case involving the Trump plot to overturn the 2020 election, Trump-supporting lawyers did not fulfill their duties to faithfully represent their clients’ best interest: Georgia attorney Kimberly Bourroughs Debrow, representing a number of the state’s fake electors, neglected to inform some of her clients about cooperation offers from prosecutors that would have resulted in reduced or dismissed charges in a suspected effort to promote Trump’s false election claims.