Justice Department files revised inventory of Mar-a-Lago seized items
The Justice Department filed a revised inventory of items seized from former President Donald Trump'sTrump's Mar-a-Lago resort last month, in addition to a declaration supporting the accuracy of the new list.
Senior U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie of New York, the court-appointed special master in the case, ordered the Justice Department to file a declaration of all non-classified items to Trump's lawyers as part of his review of documents that federal agents seized on August 8.
In order to ensure that the Detailed Property Inventory was accurate, I and FBI personnel working under my direction conducted an additional review and recount of the Seized Materials in order to make this declaration, a supervisory special FBI agent who was present for the search wrote in Monday's filing. The additional review and recount resulted in minor revisions to the Detailed Property Inventory. The number of non-classified government documents and Trump's collection of magazine and newspaper articles are two of the few differences. A federal appeals court recently ordered that the classified documents should not be included in the special master's review.
In some instances, the Justice Department'sJustice Department's revised inventory adds documents, while it subtracts in other places.
An earlier order for the initial inventory list had required that the revisions be completed in a single business day, and the special agent who made the filing suggested that the revisions were due to the additional time investigators were allotted to provide the final list. An entry for the final box taken from the Mar-a-Lago storage room, where most of the seized materials were kept, said it now contains fewer empty classified folders in the revised list.
The original inventory list noted two empty folders with CLASSIFIED banners in the box, a revised entry removes those folders, while similar empty folders are still listed for other boxes.
Trump's legal team will have an opportunity to respond to the latest Justice Department filing at a status conference scheduled for next week, but its response is due before that, as a form of court filing is due on Friday.
Dearie ordered Trump's team to submit a declaration or affidavit last week to back up the former president's public claims that some of the items removed from Mar-a-Lago had been planted there. His lawyers can note items they say were seized but not itemized in the inventory.