Mar-a-Lago employee aids investigation into whether Trump hid documents

Person was reported as having turned over picture of storage room where majority of classified documents were located

Federal prosecutors have gained the cooperation of a person who worked at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, the New York Times reported, as they seek a more complete picture of whether the former US president took steps to remove classified documents from a storage room in response to a subpoena for their return.

The identity of the cooperating witness and the extent of the information divulged remains unknown, but the person was reported as having turned over a picture of the storage room where the vast majority of the classified documents at the property had been located.