In October 2022, a maintenance worker was tasked with draining the pool at the Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida. Something went wrong and the room housing the facility servers where surveillance video logs were stored ended up flooding, as well, according to CNN reporting. Luckily, the servers were not damaged in the flood.
The maintenance worker was subpoenaed by federal investigators who were looking into former President Trump’s handling of classified documents. The same maintenance work who flooded the server room was also seen on surveillance video moving boxes around the property. The maintenance worker had his phone seized.
The pool draining and server room flooding happened about two months after documents were removed from Mar-A-Lago and investigators are considering whether the server room flood constitutes a possible obstruction of justice charge.
Greg Zimmerman is senior contributing editor for FacilitiesNet.com and Building Operating Management magazine.
