@emptywheel
Thanks for laying this out so clearly. Some thoughts:

1. "Nine months" might mean nine total months of video, ie, 60 days from each of four cameras, plus another thirty days or so from another camera (the neighbor's?). This would be consistent with us lawyers' fondness for rhetorical exaggeration when describing to judges the inhumane burdens our evil opponents keep placing on us. :-)

2. You've noted elsewhere that DOJ seems to be rolling out superseding indictments incrementally, as "neutron bombs" to encourage what I'll call "the Minion Defendants©®™" to begin cooperating. If that's the case, it may be that DOJ hasn't charged De Oliviera with flooding the server room because they want to hold that over his head for now (and, ofc, because it makes a more compelling story if De Oliveira will admit he did it on purpose, at Trump's instruction).

3. Slow-rolling the full indictment (and adding more defendants) does present the danger that the trial date will get kicked past the election. I'd value @Teri_Kanefield 's thoughts on how this strategy is likely to affect the trial timeline.

@emptywheel as a long time enterprise video MAM user with high level “rights”, the corollary to “rights” to act on assets, is Audit Trails.
The Trump Org version of the records will have the names and times of actions on the server.

Maybe they are evidence?