The Mar-a-Lago IT employee who, according to a federal court filing, implicated former President Donald Trump and two of his aides in an alleged pressure campaign to delete security camera footage at the Florida resort was advised by special counsel Jack Smith’s team that he would not face perjury charges after he amended his testimony, a source familiar with the investigation told CBS News.

Yuscil Taveras was assured by federal prosecutors in recent weeks that he was no longer the target of a criminal probe into whether he had lied in his grand jury testimony and would not be charged for allegedly lying to investigators by telling them that he had no knowledge of efforts to delete the footage that was of interest to Smith’s team, the source said.

[I’d bet that his new attorney made that deal before the change was made, but it’s not a surprise. Smith will want him as a witness at trial, so prosecuting him for perjury is … problematic in that sense. More generally, grand-jury witnesses can amend their testimony as long as the grand jury is still in session, and that can mitigate against later perjury charges. (IIRC, Karl Rove did just that in the Valerie Plame case.) But we can expect that anyone who flips to cut a deal up front, and Smith to be open for business in that regard. Fani Willis will certainly do the same. — Ed]