Federal prosecutors have informed Yuscil Taveras, the IT employee at Donald Trump’s Salisbury steak emporium at Mar-a-Lago who reportedly started to cooperate with the Special Counsel’s office after he ditched a Trump-paid attorney, that he is not facing perjury charges after admitting to giving false testimony previously, CBS News reports.

After receiving a target letter from Jack Smith’s office, Taveras consulted with a non-aligned federal public defender who gave him independent legal advice.  After the consult, Tavares ditched his Trump-paid lawyer, Stanley Woodward, who is also representing Trump co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira.  He then told prosecutors he lied in previous statements and he wanted to rescind inaccurate previous grand jury testimony to reflect the truth.  Prosecutors informed Taveras that he will not face charges for those lies to the grand jury.

Taveras’s situation demonstrates the complications co-defendants and his fellow co-conspirators face when he and his RICO operation are funding the lawyers representing them:  they don’t know whose best interests the lawyers are working for.  As the case with Cassidy Hutchinson, Mark Meadows’ White House assistant who cooperated with the House January 6th Select Committee who was told by her Trump-appointed lawyer to pretend to not remember details, these defendants may not be getting the best counsel.  Woodward, the Trump-paid attorney, might have racked up a perjury charge for his client if Taveras had continued to retain him.