Special master Dearie unhappy with Mar-a-Lago document progress: 'Where's the beef? I need some beef' - CNN

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A court-appointed peculiar maestro expressed vexation connected Tuesday with the constricted accusation he’s getting from the Justice Department and from defence lawyers for erstwhile President Donald Trump astir disputes implicit documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.

“Where’s the beef? I request immoderate beef,” Judge Raymond Dearie, acting arsenic the third-party reviewer of the seized documents, said during a half-hour league telephone with the attorneys from some sides.

The treatment highlighted the perchance messy and dilatory process of moving done privateness claims successful the unprecedented transgression probe astir Trump. The erstwhile President is arguing that astatine slightest immoderate of the documents are his and shouldn’t beryllium allowed to beryllium utilized by Justice Department investigators.

Dearie is reviewing the documents to find which ones the Justice Department tin usage successful its transgression investigation. He volition past nonstop recommendations to territory Judge Aileen Cannon successful Florida.

On Tuesday, Dearie pointed, for instance, to a missive that’s already successful quality arsenic perchance backstage successful the postulation of documents taken from Trump’s Florida estate. The missive was seemingly addressed to the Justice Department but the transcript recovered successful Mar-a-Lago was unsigned. The Justice Department hadn’t said if the bureau had received it.

Dearie asked wherefore the 2 sides can’t find among themselves if the missive was sent, which would beryllium a important information to assistance the justice determine if it should beryllium kept confidential.

“I don’t privation to beryllium dealing with nonsense objections, nonsense assertions, particularly erstwhile I person 1 period to woody with who knows however galore assertions,” said Dearie of the Eastern District of New York.

Dearie’s treatment connected Tuesday and erstwhile orders acceptable a timeline for him to marque decisions connected the privateness of documents by mid-December. The Justice Department is separately already moving done astir 100 records marked arsenic classified that were seized astatine Mar-a-Lago and divided retired from Dearie’s work, and the bureau is besides challenging astatine a national appeals tribunal the peculiar maestro process connected the whole.

Dearie told the parties that helium besides hopes to perceive from some sides connected however helium should dainty documents that Trump wants to telephone personal, and frankincense perchance support them from investigators, and besides assertion are covered by enforcement privilege, which could marque them authorities documents.

“Unless I’m wrong, and I’ve been incorrect before, there’s a definite incongruity there. Perhaps the plaintiffs’ counsel volition code that successful a submission,” Dearie said.

Both sides volition marque overmuch of their further privilege claims implicit documents to Dearie by November 12.

The parties person not yet indicated however galore of the astir 22,000 pages seized astatine Mar-a-Lago Trump are successful quality and volition necessitate the peculiar maestro to marque a call.