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Former President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home was raided by the FBI on Monday evening.
The judge who reportedly signed off on the warrant for the FBI to raid his Florida home was Bruce E. Reinhart.
Reinhart has some very strange ties to the late pedophile and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Reinhart previously defected from the U.S. Attorney’s Office to represent associates of Jeffrey Epstein. The switch concerned people.
The Miami Herald reported back in 2018:
On Oct 23, 2007, as federal prosecutors in South Florida were in the midst of tense negotiations to finalize a plea deal with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a senior prosecutor in their office was quietly laying out plans to leave the U.S. attorney’s office after 11 years.
On that date, as emails were flying between Epstein’s lawyers and federal prosecutors, Bruce E. Reinhart, now a federal magistrate, opened a limited liability company in Florida that established what would become his new criminal defense practice.
The stated address, according to Florida state corporate records: 250 South Australian Ave., Suite 1400.
The address was the same location and had the same suite number as Epstein’s lead attorney, Jack Goldberger.
The report went on:
By the end of the year, Reinhart had resigned his post in the Southern District of Florida.
Within days, on Jan. 2, 2008, he was hired to represent several of Epstein’s accused accomplices who would later, like Epstein, receive federal immunity for allegedly trafficking underage girls.
Reinhart’s defection was one of many highly unusual turns that the Epstein case took 12 years ago, moves that could merit examination as the multimillionaire’s controversial non-prosecution agreement is dissected in the wake of his arrest last week on sex trafficking charges.
In 2011, Reinhart was named in the Crime Victims’ Rights Act lawsuit, which accused him of violating Justice Department policies by switching sides, implying that he leveraged inside information about Epstein’s investigation to curry favor with Epstein.
It has also been reported that about ten months after Reinhart started working for Epstein’s co-conspirators, according to FEC records, Reinhart gave $1,000 directly to the Obama campaign and another $1,000 to its fundraising arm, the Obama Victory Fund.
He also donated a small $500 donation to Jen Bush’s campaign in 2016.
Trump confirmed the media reports that there was a raid at his Florida home on Monday evening. He said it was “under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.”
The agents were allegedly searching for boxes of classified documents that Trump supposedly brought to his home after he left the White House. If he did it could be a violation of federal record-keeping laws.
The National Archives and Records Administration said in February that it found classified documents in 15 boxes at Mar-A-Lago and alerted the FBI.
The raid comes suspiciously after Trump had made hints that he will run for president in 2024.
