Carmen Lineberger, a former federal prosecutor, has been charged by the Department of Justice for allegedly attempting to steal a sealed report related to the investigation of President Donald Trump. The report, authored by special counsel Jack Smith, focuses on classified documents found at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. According to the indictment, Lineberger, 62, was serving as the managing assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Florida when she downloaded the report in January 2025. To conceal her actions, she disguised the report as cake recipes, using file names like 'Chocolate_Cake_Recipe.pdf' and 'Bundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf'. She emailed the document to her personal Hotmail account in September and later to her Gmail account in December. Lineberger pleaded not guilty to charges of stealing and concealing government records, including a felony count of obstruction of justice, and was released on her own recognizance. The potential maximum sentence for her actions is 25 years in prison, although federal sentencing guidelines often result in shorter terms for convicted defendants.