The Trump DOJ just indicted a former federal prosecutor for stealing confidential files of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on his investigation into classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. Former Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney Carmen Lineberger currently faces four charges.

As reported by Fox News:

A former Justice Department prosecutor was charged Wednesday with allegedly emailing confidential records tied to former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Donald Trump.
Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, 62, of Port St. Lucie, Florida, faces four criminal charges stemming from her handling of Smith’s final report: one felony count of obstruction of justice, one felony count of concealing government records and two misdemeanor counts of theft of government property valued at less than $1,000.
According to the indictment filed in the Southern District of Florida, Lineberger allegedly altered electronic file names of government records to conceal unauthorized transmissions of the documents to her personal email accounts. . . .
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon previously blocked the public release of the volume of Smith’s report related to the classified documents investigation involving Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in January 2025.

FBI Director Kash Patel took to X to confirm the arrest, posting:

This afternoon, a former managing assistant U.S. Attorney who supported Jack Smith’s politicized investigation of President Trump has been charged with stealing the confidential investigation documents. Carmen Lineberger allegedly emailed the confidential material to her own personal email, disguising them as dessert recipes to conceal them from record searches.
Lineberger is charged with four felony counts in the indictment.
This FBI will not hesitate to bring to account those who violated the trust of the American public in an investigation that should’ve never been brought to begin with.

You can’t make it up, folks. This Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Attorney’'s Office for the Southern District of Florida was stealing a classified report on the alleged mishandling of classified documents.

Here’s the irony. This individual, Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, who had worked for the DOJ, was stealing classified documents that had been ordered sealed by a judge. She sent them to her personal email account and renamed them to disguise their true content. And what were the documents she was stealing? Jack Smith’s report on the classified documents investigation.

Lineberger emailed the classified docs to herself and then tried to disguise them with innocuous names, hoping that even if someone happened to see them, they wouldn’t suspect anything. And the file codenames included chocolate cake recipe and bundt cake recipe. Of course, for this subterfuge to work, you’d better hope no one with a sweet tooth happens to be poking through your files. It would almost be funny if it weren’t true.

As my brother, ACLJ Executive Director Jordan Sekulow, said on-air, cases like this are much worse when the perpetrators are actual attorneys. These aren’t just normal “civilians” who don’t know the law or don’t understand the significance of legal documents, or what the word classified means. Lineberger knew exactly what she was doing. And obviously knew it was wrong because she renamed the files to hide them.

These documents were never meant to see the light of day because the case was dismissed, and you cannot bring cases against a sitting President. And since Trump got reelected, Lineberger will be held to a much higher standard – and frankly, she should be because this is a serious crime.

Today’s Sekulow broadcast included more discussion of this latest development in the saga of disgraced Special Counsel Jack Smith. We were also joined by the head of ACLJ Jerusalem, Jeff Ballabon, to discuss the disturbing antisemitic comments from far-Left Texas congressional candidate Maureen Galindo and what action may be taken against her for this extremely dangerous rhetoric.

Watch the full broadcast below:

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