I can’t even imagine what kind of motherlode this represents.

A Donald Trump ally has turned over thousands of documents to special counsel Jack Smith related to efforts to find supposed voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election – including materials that haven’t been previously disclosed to investigators looking into events surrounding January 6, 2021.

Former New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik was part of the team led by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani trying to uncover fraud that would swing the election in favor of Trump.

For months, Kerik had tried to shield some of the documents from investigators, citing privilege.

But in recent weeks, Kerik gave the documents to the Trump’s 2024 campaign to review. After that review, the campaign declined to assert privilege, according to Kerik’s lawyer, Tim Parlatore, who turned over the documents to Smith’s office on Sunday.

“I have shared all of these documents, approximately 600MB, mostly pdfs, with the Special Counsel and look forward to sitting down with them in about 2 weeks to discuss.” Parlatore said

I’m not sure why the Trump 2024 campaign was involved in reviewing the documents or deciding on privilege challenges. Perhaps that’s a reporting error but it’s the 2020 campaign that was involved with Giuliani and Kerik’s shenanigans. Maybe there’s some kind of legal continuity between the two organizations, but it’s confusing.

Irrespective of that question, it’s already known that Kerik and Giuliani are an ethically challenge duo. In truth, Kerik has been a hot mess for nearly two decades now. In 2004, he had to withdraw from his nomination as Secretary of Homeland Security because he, a former NYC police commissioner, had been employing an undocumented worker as a nanny and housekeeper. But his withdrawal with too late to prevent the world from learning he had “carried on an affair with his book publisher [Judith Regan] at an apartment near ground zero intended to serve as a haven for rescue workers.” Then in 2010, when Kerik was convicted of “two counts of tax fraud, one count of making a false statement on a loan application, and five counts of making false statements,” Judge Stephen Robinson was so offended by his behavior that he ignored the federal guidelines recommending a maximum of 33 months of jail time and gave Kerik a full four years.

Perhaps the surest sign of Kerik’s corruption is the fact that President Trump pardoned him in 2020. Maybe it was out of gratitude for the pardon that Kerik decided to team up with Giuliani in the hunt for voter fraud after the 2020 presidential election. His reward has been, much like many other Trump sycophants, an unholy and mounting pile of legal bills. That’s in part because two Fulton County, Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, who Giuliani falsely claimed engaged in ballot fraud, have sued them him for defamation, and Kerik has resisted turning over documents in the case. It’s also due to similar efforts to withhold documents from the congressional January 6 committee.

Armed with the information Kerik has been shielding, Special Counsel Jack Smith now has his eyes on the internal workings of Giuliani’s election fraud operation, and that’s going to unlock a boatload of criminal liability that will go in every possible direction.