One of Jack Smith's Prosecutors Was Just Charged for Hiding Classified Documents About Trump, Disguising Them as "Cake Recipes"

I believe I once heard "No man is above the law" and I also heard Andrew Weismann urging the prosecution of any target of a government investigation for every process crime you can discover.

Prosecutor charged for allegedly emailing self sealed Jack Smith Trump report veiled as cake recipes

The Justice Department has identified prosecutor as Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, the managing assistant U.S. Attorney of the Fort Pierce branch of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida.

By Jerry Dunleavy

A federal prosecutor in the office that helped handle Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case regarding his investigation into Donald Trump was charged Wednesday for allegedly illegally emailing herself a copy of the materials disguised as cake recipes.

The 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.

Lineberger allegedly attempted to conceal her actions by saving electronic copies of the government records in question under misleading file names such as "chocolate cake recipe" and "Bundt cake recipe" before emailing the documents to her personal email accounts.

The DOJ also said Wednesday that Lineberger also acted "knowing that her transmission of the record outside DOJ directly violated the court order and impaired the proper administration of the underlying criminal prosecution."

"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," FBI Director Kash Patel said in a Wednesday afternoon X post. "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."

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