In a signed letter to the Justice Department, Trump’s attorney claimed the classified material was not at Mar-a-Lago.

Letters signed by lawyers raise new questions about the number of people who may face legal exposure. ongoing investigation For handling classified material from Trump’s days in the White House.

The probe reached dramatic heights earlier this week FBI executed search warrant in Mar-a-Lago, the agent deleted 11 pairs of confidential documents. Some of them were marked as “Top Secret/SCI”, his one of the highest level of classification.

CNN previously reported that investigators produced evidence, including witnesses, after a June meeting in Mar-a-Lago, where law enforcement officials walked off with classified information.

Court documents unsealed and made public on Friday identify three federal crimes the DOJ is investigating as part of its investigation. espionage law violations, obstruction of justice, and criminal disposal of government records. The inclusion of crimes indicated that the department might have reason to investigate those crimes, as evidence was being gathered in the search. No one has been charged with a crime.

The June meeting included federal agents, including Trump attorneys Evan Corcoran, Christina Bob, and Jay Bratt, chief of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence and export control section, CNN previously said. reported.

Another source claims Trump’s representatives told investigators at a meeting in June that Trump had declassified all the documents.

In a statement to CNN, President Trump’s spokesperson Taylor Gravitch said, “Like all witch hunts concocted by Democrats in the past, the waters of this unprecedented and needless raid are implied, leaked, anonymous. sources, carried by media willing to operate without hard facts..”

The National Archives, which is responsible for collecting and classifying presidential materials, previously said at least 15 boxes of White House records were recovered from Trump’s Maralago resort, including classified ones.