A federal judge has ruled that Donald Trump’s lawyers must now reveal the names of the private investigators who were hired to search four of his properties for classified materials, reports say.

Chief Judge Beryl Howell, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, ruled Wednesday that the former president’s legal team must give the government the names of the private investigators who were hired late last year to search for any potential remaining documents removed from the White House, according to The New York Times, per Newsweek.

According to CNN, the names of the private investigators were handed over on Wednesday night.

Now it’s up to prosecutors to decide whether to interview the investigators as part of the criminal probe, just as they have done with other members of Trump’s inner circle.

Judge Howell’s decision is the latest in a series of ongoing attempts by the federal government to get Trump and his legal team to return all classified materials that were purportedly removed from the White House when Trump left office in January 2021.

Last August the FBI recovered more than 100 documents including several marked top-secret from Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Palm Beach home. He had been subpoenaed to return the classified materials last May.

In the months that followed the criminal investigation into allegations that Trump mishandled the top-secret documents discovered at his Florida home, a federal investigation was launched to retrieve them and two more documents marked classified were discovered at a storage facility in West Palm Beach, Florida right before Thanksgiving.

Those documents were found by two private investigators hired by Trump’s lawyers. The investigators also searched Trump Tower in New York, Trump’s Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, and an office in Florida, Newsweek reports.

Trump’s lawyers handed over documents that were recovered from the storage unit to the FBI and assured agents they were confident that all classified materials had been returned. They made that same claim in June when federal agents visited Mar-a-Lago prior to the August raid.

But prosecutors soon became frustrated with Trump and his legal team’s cooperation in the criminal probe and asked Howell to hold the ex-president’s office in contempt for failing to comply with the subpoena that requested all White House documents be returned. The judge, however, declined to hold Trump’s office in contempt in December.

Prosecutors have since questioned Walt Nauta, who works as a valet driver at Mar-a-Lago. He was allegedly ordered by Trump to move boxes of documents into a storage room at Mar-a-Lago after Trump received a government subpoena to return the classified materials.

Trump adviser Kash Patel was offered immunity to testify before a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. about Trump’s handling of the classified documents.

So the Justice Department is very slowly tightening the screws on the former president and hopefully, Trump is sweating this out. I get impatient for justice but I guess we have to bide our time and see how this plays out.

I’ve learned not to hold my breath.