Special Counsel Jack Smith resigned from his position on Friday after completing two criminal investigations into President-elect Donald Trump.
In a footnote in a motion submitted to US District Judge Aileen Cannon on Saturday, it said that Smith had completed his work and separated from the Department on January 10.
That motion was urging Cannon not to extend a court order that she issued last week blocking the release of Smith’s final report.
Lawyers for Trump had persuaded the Trump-appointed judge to block the release of the volume of Smith’s report pertaining to their case before her.
Trump was charged with willful retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, in a case Cannon dismissed this summer that was on appeal when Trump won the November election.
Trump’s team had also asked an appeals court to block the release of the entire two-volume report.
Legal filings released earlier this week indicate that Smith had accused Trump of being ‘the head of the criminal conspiracies,’ and his footnotes indicate the combined reports run beyond 200 pages.
Neither of Smith’s cases against Trump reached trial and the president-elect has fiercely maintained his innocence during the ‘political’ prosecution.
In a footnote in a motion submitted to US District Judge Aileen Cannon on Saturday, it said that Smith had completed his work and separated from the Department on January 10
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