Florida prosecutor charged with emailing herself the most sought-after documents from Jack Smith’s Trump investigation | CNN Politics

A former managing assistant US attorney in the Southern District of Florida has been charged with emailing herself the most sought-after, confidential Justice Department records in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of President Donald Trump, masquerading them as dessert recipes. Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, 62, faces two felony charges related to her handling of Volume II of Smith’s final report, which detailed Smith’s findings that Trump and two co-defendants who worked for him in 2021 mishandled national security documents from his first presidency and attempted to stymy federal efforts to have the records returned. One of those charges includes an allegation that Lineberger intended to flout a court order from federal judge Aileen Cannon, who had overseen the case against Trump and the two others, after the judge blocked the release of Volume II in 2025. Lineberger also was charged with two misdemeanor counts of theft of government money or property, valued less than $1,000, for each time she is said to have sent herself the document. Judge Aileen Cannon bars the release of special counsel report on Trump’s handling of classified documents She entered a plea of n