The DOJ, as Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports, immediately responded, opposing the delay. “With little notice to Defendant Nauta, the operative indictment in this matter was returned in this District and only recently, on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, did Defendant Nauta retain local counsel, Sasha Dadan.” “At all times relevant to this investigation, Defendant Nauta has been represented by an attorney licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia,” the motion claims. READ MORE: ‘We Are Now Formally Back on Indictment Watch’ With Trump Georgia Grand Jury: Former Federal Prosecutor “Defendant Nauta was indicted on June 8, 2023, in this District, despite the fact that the investigation leading to his indictment had long been conducted by a Grand Jury empaneled in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia,” the motion filed by Nauta’s attorney reads.
His arraignment was again delayed because he still had not retained legal counsel in Florida.Īnd now he again is asking for a delay in a pretrial hearting scheduled for July 14, according to Lawfare’s Anna Bower. Had he done that, the arraignment would have gone forward,” even without him. Nauta has already caused a delay in the judicial proceedings by first claiming the weather delayed his flight to Florida, causing his arraignment to be delayed – a claim rejected by at least one expert who charged that Nauta had “squandered the time he was given to find local counsel. Walt Nauta, Donald Trump’s former Naval presidential valet turned Mar-a-Lago body man who was criminally indicted with the ex-president on multiple charges related to mishandling of classified documents, including obstruction and concealment, on Monday filed for a delay in the case, noting “Counsel for President Donald J. Editor's note: The spelling of co-defendant in the headline has been corrected.
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