Mar-a-Lago worker appears in court in Trump classified documents case

Carlos De Oliveira arrives at the court in Miami (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

The property manager of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate has made his first court appearance on charges in the classified documents case against the former US president – but did not enter a plea because he has not found a Florida-based lawyer to represent him.

Carlos De Oliveira was added last week to the indictment with Trump and the former president’s valet, Walt Nauta, in the federal case alleging a plot to illegally keep top-secret records at Trump’s estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and thwart US government efforts to retrieve them.