Letter to Benjamin Ginsberg, Esq. Jones Day - Seeking Additional Records from Trump Campaign

Letter

Date: March 27, 2018
Location: Washington, DC

Dear Mr. Ginsberg:

On July 19, 2017, we wrote to the Trump Campaign seeking documents. The Campaign has since provided over 28,000 pages of responsive documents, as well as letters detailing the 21 campaign custodians whose emails were searched and the more than 300 search terms used. We appreciate the Campaign's efforts to comply with the Committee's document request, including your willingness to use "additional terms that the Judiciary Committee believes are necessary to capture all documents within the scope of its request." We are writing today because we believe information obtained in a recent Committee interview warrants expanding those searches to two additional custodians who were not included in the original effort, John Mashburn and Rick Dearborn. Doing so will help ensure the Campaign's production fully responds to the categories of documents sought in the Committee's initial letter.

The Committee has determined that obtaining their responsive emails, or at least ensuring that adequate searches have been conducted that would cover these communications, is necessary for its investigative work. Accordingly, we ask that you apply the full list of search terms you previously identified to the additional custodians Mr. Mashburn and Mr. Dearborn. Please provide all responsive documents by April 12, 2018.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. If you believe any records responsive to the inquiries above are subject to any privileges, please provide a detailed privilege log. Please contact Patrick Davis of Chairman Grassley's staff at (202) 224-5225 and Brian Privor of Ranking Member Feinstein's staff at (202) 224-7703 if you have any questions.

Sincerely,


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