A former managing assistant U.S. attorney who previously worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into President Donald Trump has been charged with stealing confidential documents related to investigations, FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Wednesday.
“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,” Patel wrote in a post on X.
He identified the individual as Carmen Lineberger, saying that she had “allegedly emailed the confidential material to her own personal email, disguising them as dessert recipes to conceal them from record searches.”…