A key witness against former President Donald Trump and his two co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago documents case recanted previous false testimony and provided new information implicating the defendants after he switched lawyers, special counsel Jack Smith’s office said in a new court filing.
Yuscil Taveras, the director of information technology at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s club in Palm Beach, Florida, changed his testimony last month about efforts to delete security camera video at the club after he changed from a lawyer paid for by Trump’s Save America PAC to a public defender, Tuesday’s filing says.
He’s the “IT guy” at a hotel. That doesn’t scream high net worth to me.
I’m not high net worth and I’ve paid for attorneys. Don’t have to be high net worth to be able to pay for proper representation.
You do have to have money in the first place.
Trump hates paying people.
Also, this is a case that is likely to take a lot of time and require a lot of attorney time. A public defender is likely a more sound financial decision even for someone with a reasonable amount of savings. Why go into crippling debt defending yourself from a former president, when a public defender will do it on the tax payer dime.
Oh for sure. With the amount of billable hours in something that gets dragged out like this, I wouldn’t be able to afford a non public defender and I do well for myself. I’ve had a couple instance where I had legal bills in the thousands but it wasn’t hours and hours of shit to work through. This is definitely the financially sound decision.