According to a Fox News report, Special Counsel Jack Smith served Twitter with a warrant to access former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account. The tech giant delayed, costing them $350,000 in fines for failing to comply.
Smith accessed Trump’s account back in January.
From Fox News:
A federal judge held Twitter, now known as X, in contempt for delays in compliance with the warrant and fined the company $350,000. The judge’s decision was upheld by a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. last month in a sealed opinion. A redacted version of that opinion was released by the court Wednesday, bringing the previously unreported legal battle into the light.
According to court documents, Smith’s warrant was served with a nondisclosure order that prohibited Twitter from notifying anyone about the existence of the warrant. Twitter initially did not hand over the requested materials while it challenged the nondisclosure order, but the company was unsuccessful.
Though Twitter eventually complied with the warrant, Trump’s account, @realdonaldtrump, was not turned over to Smith’s investigation until three days after a court-ordered deadline, the documents state.
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Twitter served with warrant for Trump's account in January, fined $350K for delay: court filing https://t.co/iVuruxEsYR
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