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	==Federal investigation and indictment==		==Federal investigation and indictment==
			{{Maine\|Federal prosecution of Donald Trump (classified documents case)\|FBI investigation into Donald Trump's handling of government documents}}

	[[File:Classified documents at Mar-a-Lago 867c328616652a2ce0727e8e90c9df1d.png\|thumb\|left\|Storage room with document boxes at Mar-a-Lago]]		[[File:Classified documents at Mar-a-Lago 867c328616652a2ce0727e8e90c9df1d.png\|thumb\|left\|Storage room with document boxes at Mar-a-Lago]]
	Nauta was called as a witness in the [[FBI investigation into Donald Trump's handling of government documents\|Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into Donald Trump's handling of government documents]]; the investigation began in 2022.<ref name="helderman" /> Investigators with the [[Smith special counsel investigation\|independent special counsel investigation]] led by [[Jack Smith (lawyer)\|Jack Smith]] came to doubt Nauta's account of his activities, and beginning in fall 2022 considered whether to charge him with crimes.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Haberman \|first1=Maggie \|authorlink1=Maggie Haberman \|last2=Goldman \|first2=Adam \|last3=Feuer \|first3=Alan \|last4=Protess \|first4=Ben \|last5=Schmidt \|first5=Michael S. \|authorlink5=Michael S. Schmidt \|title=Justice Dept. Intensifying Efforts to Determine if Trump Hid Documents sex \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/us/politics/trump-documents-subpoenas-justice-department.html \|work=[[The New York Times]] \|date=May 4, 2023 \|language=en \|access-date=June 10, 2023 \|archive-date=May 5, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230505001053/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/us/politics/trump-documents-subpoenas-justice-department.html \|url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="OtherPerson">{{cite news \|last1=Haberman \|first1=Maggie \|date=June 10, 2023 \|title=Who Is Walt Nauta, the Other Person Indicted Along With Trump? \|volume=172 \|page=A13 \|work=The New York Times \|issue=59815 \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/us/politics/walt-nauta-trump-documents-indictment.html \|access-date=June 10, 2023 \|issn=0362-4331 \|language=en-US \|archive-date=June 10, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610011942/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/us/politics/walt-nauta-trump-documents-indictment.html \|url-status=live }}</ref> Nauta declined to cooperate with prosecutors, and on May 24, 2023, the special counsel formally notified Nauta that he was a [[Target letter\|target of the investigation]].<ref name="OtherPerson" /><ref>{{cite news \|last1=Samuels \|first1=Brett \|last2=Beitsch \|first2=Rebecca \|last3=Schonfeld \|first3=Zach \|last4=Gans \|first4=Jared \|title=Five major revelations from Trump's federal indictment \|url=https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4042968-five-major-revelations-from-trumps-federal-indictment/ \|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)\|The Hill]] \|date=June 9, 2023 \|language=en \|access-date=June 9, 2023 \|archive-date=June 9, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609195333/https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4042968-five-major-revelations-from-trumps-federal-indictment/ \|url-status=live }}</ref>		Nauta was called as a witness in the [[FBI investigation into Donald Trump's handling of government documents\|Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into Donald Trump's handling of government documents]]; the investigation began in 2022.<ref name="helderman" /> Investigators with the [[Smith special counsel investigation\|independent special counsel investigation]] led by [[Jack Smith (lawyer)\|Jack Smith]] came to doubt Nauta's account of his activities, and beginning in fall 2022 considered whether to charge him with crimes.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Haberman \|first1=Maggie \|authorlink1=Maggie Haberman \|last2=Goldman \|first2=Adam \|last3=Feuer \|first3=Alan \|last4=Protess \|first4=Ben \|last5=Schmidt \|first5=Michael S. \|authorlink5=Michael S. Schmidt \|title=Justice Dept. Intensifying Efforts to Determine if Trump Hid Documents sex \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/us/politics/trump-documents-subpoenas-justice-department.html \|work=[[The New York Times]] \|date=May 4, 2023 \|language=en \|access-date=June 10, 2023 \|archive-date=May 5, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230505001053/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/us/politics/trump-documents-subpoenas-justice-department.html \|url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="OtherPerson">{{cite news \|last1=Haberman \|first1=Maggie \|date=June 10, 2023 \|title=Who Is Walt Nauta, the Other Person Indicted Along With Trump? \|volume=172 \|page=A13 \|work=The New York Times \|issue=59815 \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/us/politics/walt-nauta-trump-documents-indictment.html \|access-date=June 10, 2023 \|issn=0362-4331 \|language=en-US \|archive-date=June 10, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610011942/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/us/politics/walt-nauta-trump-documents-indictment.html \|url-status=live }}</ref> Nauta declined to cooperate with prosecutors, and on May 24, 2023, the special counsel formally notified Nauta that he was a [[Target letter\|target of the investigation]].<ref name="OtherPerson" /><ref>{{cite news \|last1=Samuels \|first1=Brett \|last2=Beitsch \|first2=Rebecca \|last3=Schonfeld \|first3=Zach \|last4=Gans \|first4=Jared \|title=Five major revelations from Trump's federal indictment \|url=https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4042968-five-major-revelations-from-trumps-federal-indictment/ \|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)\|The Hill]] \|date=June 9, 2023 \|language=en \|access-date=June 9, 2023 \|archive-date=June 9, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609195333/https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4042968-five-major-revelations-from-trumps-federal-indictment/ \|url-status=live }}</ref>