Justice Department filing on Mar-a-Lago documents puts Trump's lawyers in focus

An aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

If recent history is a guide, one of the more dangerous places for a lawyer to be is by the side of former President Donald Trump.

Trump’s longtime fixer Michael Cohen went to prison for tax evasion and false statements. His friend and personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been suspended from legal practice in New York for making “demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large in his capacity as lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump.”

Now, with more details emerging about the Justice Department probe of how top secret documents came to be stored at Trump’s Florida resort, his legal representatives are once again under scrutiny.