Florida judge who approved FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago once represented Jeffrey Epstein's employees: report
Trump announced Monday that his Mar-a-Lago estate in South Florida was 'under siege'
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A federal magistrate judge in Florida who signed the search warrant to allow the FBI to raid former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate had represented several of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s employees in connection to a sex trafficking investigation, according to a report.
Judge Bruce Reinhardt approved the warrant on the South Florida estate, the New York Post reported, citing sources.
Reinhardt spent 10 years at a private practice before becoming a magistrate judge in 2018, according to his career history via Bloomberg. He previously worked as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
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Reinhardt's ties to Epstein's employees were first reported by the Miami Herald after he became a magistrate judge in 2018. He reportedly told the paper that those he represented included Epstein’s pilots, his scheduler, Sarah Kellen, and a woman Nadia Marcinkova.
Trump announced on Monday that his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida was "under siege" by a "large group" of FBI agents conducting a search warrant.
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Michael Tabman, former head of the FBI’s Minneapolis Field Office, told Fox News Digital on Monday that an FBI raid on the home of a former commander-in-chief and one who has indicated that he might run again is "unprecedented."
"We just haven’t investigated presidents after they’ve served their term," Tabman said. "But it is a huge move by the FBI in that the political sensitivities are clear."
Fox News' Stephanie Pagones contributed to this report.