Federal prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents have subpoenaed his family business for records related to his dealings with LIV Golf, according to a report.
The fledgling Saudi-backed golf tour plans to hold tournaments this year at three properties owned by Trump.
The previously unreported subpoenas were issued to the Trump Organization by prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing multiple federal criminal investigations into the 76-year-old former president, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
It’s unclear why prosecutors are interested in Trump’s ties to LIV Golf and how the subpoenas fit into the scope of Smith’s investigation into how classified records from Trump’s days in the White House wound up at the ex-commander-in-chief’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
The subpoenas related to the LIV Golf are part of a flurry of activity from Smith’s team in the classified documents probe, according to the report.
Prosecutors have reportedly obtained the confidential cooperation of a Mar-a-Lago insider who has provided investigators with a picture of the storage room at Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., estate where classified material may have been held.
Investigators appear to be interested in the movement of boxes filled with presidential papers at the posh Florida club and why some surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago appears to be missing.
Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage, which the DOJ issued a subpoena for last year, reportedly captured Trump aide Walt Nauta and another individual moving boxes out of the storage closet.
Some of the footage sought by prosecutors, however, appears to be missing or unavailable, according to the report, leading investigators to subpoena the software company that handles all of the Trump Organization’s surveillance cameras.
Matthew Calamari Sr., the executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Trump Organization, and his son, Matthew Calamari Jr.,the director of security for the company, have also been issued subpoenas and reportedly testified before the grand jury hearing evidence in the case on Thursday.
The New York Times reports that people briefed on the matter say that nearly every employee at Mar-a-Lago has been subpoenaed, and that some have been called back in for questioning by investigators.
An individual who had knowledge of Trump’s thinking when he first delivered White House material to the National Archives has also recently been subpoenaed, according to the report.
Trump has vehemently denied any wrongdoing since the FBI’s August 2022 raid of his Palm Beach resort which turned up hundreds of pages of classified documents.
