Corcoran refused to speak about his interactions with Trump in front of a grand jury in Washington, D.C. earlier this year, invoking the attorney-client privilege. The “crime-fraud exception,” however, states that this privilege is nullified if a client utilises a lawyer’s assistance to commit a crime.
A federal judge decided in favour of the special counsel’s office during a closed-door hearing in March and mandated Corcoran to testify before the grand jury and give information to federal investigators.
Now that a judge in Washington has rejected Trump’s claims of the attorney-client privilege, his lawyers may attempt to have his testimony removed from the Florida case.