Prosecutor charged for allegedly emailing self sealed Jack Smith Trump report veiled as cake recipeshttps://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/pro-dei-prosecutor-charged-over-illegally-emailing-herself-jack-smiths-sealedThe department announced the indicted prosecutor as Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, a managing assistant U.S. attorney of the Fort Pierce branch of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.
Lineberger has been charged with two counts of theft of government money or property; the destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations; and with the concealment, removal or mutilation of public records.
The charges against Lineberger were filed in the Northern District of Florida. She pleaded not guilty on Wednesday.
The department, in announcing the charges, said that in separate instances in late 2025, Lineberger altered the electronic file names of government records that she received in her official capacity "to conceal" her unauthorized electronic transmission of the records to personal email accounts belonging to her "without being detected.”
The altered government records included a document that included parts of internal DOJ electronic messages, an internal DOJ memorandum and a DOJ report related to a criminal prosecution that had been court-ordered to remain under seal and prohibited from distribution or disclosure outside of the department, the DOJ also said.
Our beloved Sergeant Lagomorph posted this story yesterday, here,
https://conservativecave.com/cave/index.php?topic=136708.msg1575925#msg1575925 . I'm doing this thread, as I think this case could be the pry bar that opens Smith-and-minions' 55-gallon drums of illegalities and process violations, leading to more prosecutions and disciplinary firings/actions.
More immediately, Lineberger obviously did not do this to have souvenirs of her work. Maybe she was hoping to use the files for dripping-faucet selective Hate-Trump leaking. Maybe she was storing the file copies so that if the originals got erased, they could be restored for hoped-for future resumption of Hate-Trump lawfare. Not that these possibilities are mutually exclusive - i.e. leak now, resume lawfare after Trump is out of the WH.
