The new subpoenas encompass a wide variety of those in Trump’s orbit, from low-level aides to his most senior advisers. 6 attack has raised questions about money Trump solicited under the premise of fighting election fraud. The fact that the Justice Department is now seeking information related to fundraising comes as the House committee examining the Jan. But in a new line of inquiry, some of the latest subpoenas focus on the activities of the Save America political action committee, the main political fundraising conduit for Trump since he left office. The subpoenas seek information in connection with the fake electors plan.įor months, associates of Trump’s have received subpoenas related to other aspects of the investigations into his efforts to cling to power. Parlatore said his client had initially offered to grant an interview voluntarily. attorney’s office in Washington, his lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said Monday.
Kerik, who promoted claims of voter fraud alongside his friend Rudy Giuliani, was issued a subpoena by prosecutors with the U.S. Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner. Stanley Woodward, one of Scavino’s lawyers, declined to comment.Īnother was Bernard B. One of the recipients, people familiar with the case said, was Dan Scavino, Trump’s former social media director who rose from working at a Trump-owned golf course to become one of his most loyal West Wing aides, and has remained an adviser since Trump left office. 6 have dribbled out gradually, with investigators casting a wide net on a range of issues, including Trump’s postelection fundraising and the so-called fake electors scheme. The names of those receiving the latest round of subpoenas in the investigation related to Jan. A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment. The extent of the investigation has come into focus in recent days, even though it has often been overshadowed by the government’s legal clash with Trump and his lawyers over a separate inquiry into the handling of presidential records, including highly classified materials, the former president kept at Mar-a-Lago, his residence in Florida.įederal agents with court-authorized search warrants took phones last week from at least two people: Boris Epshteyn, an in-house counsel who helps coordinate Trump’s legal efforts, and Mike Roman, a campaign strategist who was the director of Election Day operations for the Trump campaign in 2020, people familiar with the investigation said.Įpshteyn and Roman have been linked to a critical element of Trump’s bid to hold onto power: the effort to name slates of electors pledged to Trump from swing states won by Joe Biden in 2020 as part of a plan to block or delay congressional certification of Biden’s Electoral College victory.Įpshteyn and Roman did not respond to requests for comment. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
The seizure of the phones, coupled with a widening effort to obtain information from those around Trump after the 2020 election, represent some of the most aggressive steps the department has taken thus far in its criminal investigation into the actions that led to the Jan. WASHINGTON – Justice Department officials have seized the phones of two top advisers to former President Donald Trump and blanketed his aides with about 40 subpoenas in a substantial escalation of the investigation into his efforts to subvert the 2020 election, people familiar with the inquiry said Monday.
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