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National Archives documents, at center of Trump raid, have spawned unusual cases for decades

National Archives documents, at center of Trump raid, have spawned unusual cases for decades

National Archives documents, at center of Trump raid, have spawned unusual cases for decades
Aug 09, 2022 1 min, 26 secs

From an employee selling 71 signed presidential pardons to a White House national security adviser illegally sneaking out documents stuffed in his socks, the National Archives and Records Administration has been at the center of some of America’s most unusual, headline-grabbing cases.

The FBI raid at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home is said to be linked to 15 boxes of presidential records that allegedly contained “classified national security information.

After determining the boxes had been improperly removed from the White House and moved to Mar-a-Lago in violation of the Presidential Records Act, a 1978 law that requires presidential administrations to preserve documents, the National Archives asked the Justice Department to investigate.

Perhaps most notably, former President Clinton’s national security adviser Sandy Berger was arrested in 2003 for removing documents from the National Archives.

He was accused of sneaking the materials out of the Archives by stuffing them in his pants and socks and cutting them up with scissors.

He claimed it was “an honest mistake” while vetting documents for the 9/11 commissions probe into the 2001 terror attacks at the World Trade Center and elsewhere.

Sean Aubitz, who worked in the National Archives Philadelphia branch, stole documents from the site for three years simply by putting them in his briefcase, according to court documents.

The stolen items included 71 signed presidential pardons, an 1863 warrant ordering the seizure of Robert E.

Aubitz pleaded guilty in 2002 and was sentenced to 21 months in prison, while 61 of the signed pardons have yet to be recovered.

Lowry because the statute of limitations had passed, but the National Archives has permanently banned him from its facilities

In 2018, a French historian was accused of stealing 291 soldiers’ dog tags, including some dating back to World War II, from the National Archives

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