E DoJ prosecutor charged with sending sealed Jack Smith Trump report to personal email

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• A former Department of Justice prosecutor is facing felony charges after emailing herself a sealed Biden-era investigative report concerning Donald Trump and attempting to hide the documents as cake recipes, federal authorities said on Wednesday.
• Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, who worked as a managing assistant US attorney in Florida, is facing two counts of theft of government money or property in addition to charges related to her alleged alteration of the documents, according to the indictment.
• In early 2025, Lineberger received a copy of an internal report “related to a pending federal criminal investigation”, which she would later send from her DoJ inbox to her personal email in December 2025, according to the indictment.
• The report was filed in the US district court for the southern district of Florida, where she was employed.
• Lineberger allegedly sought to hide evidence of the document by changing its name to “Bundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf” before saving it...