Trump Employee Released on Bond After Court Appearance in Documents Case
Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager of Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald J. Trump’s private club and residence in Florida, appeared in court for the first time on Monday to face charges of conspiring with Mr. Trump to obstruct the government’s monthslong efforts to retrieve highly sensitive national security documents from the former president after he left office.
Mr. De Oliveira did not enter a plea at his brief hearing in Federal District Court in Miami. The chief magistrate judge, Edwin G. Torres, released him on a $100,000 personal surety bond, and he was ordered to remain in the Southern District of Florida and to not have contact with any of the witnesses in the case.
A slight man with gray hair, Mr. De Oliveira was met outside the courthouse by a throng of television cameras but made no public remarks. In court, he told the judge he had an expired American passport and lived in a rental property in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
A formal arraignment where Mr. De Oliveira will enter a plea was scheduled for Aug. 10 in Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, Fla., the home courthouse of Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who is overseeing the case. The arraignment is expected to be handled by a magistrate judge in Fort Pierce, Shaniek Mills Maynard.
Source: The New York Times
