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Judge Aileen Cannon Presides Over The World's Most Infamous Kangaroo Court... [1]
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Date: 2022-09-16
While I was frantically refreshing the docket last Friday, waiting for the joint filing listing special master nominees, I witnessed confusion on the part of Judge Cannon’s court clerk. Repeatedly they posted and removed several documents, posting edits and corrections. The peculiar tale was initially the first paragraph of my diary that day. I described it at the time as frustrating and bumbling…
Associated Press
When a government document mysteriously appeared earlier this week in the highest profile case in the federal court system, it had the hallmarks of another explosive storyline in the Justice Department’s investigation into classified records stored at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate.
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The document remained late Thursday on the court docket, but 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.
The document first appeared on the court’s docket late Monday afternoon and was marked as a “MOTION to Intervene by U.S. Department of the Treasury.”
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