Wendy Rittenhouse made the appeal in an email and estimated that Kyle Rittenhouse's legal costs for the month of November will amount to $110,000, according to CNN.
Solis wrote in the letter, which was shared on Twitter by Rittenhouse's social media team, that the funds raised on behalf of Rittenhouse “were transferred by the Fightback Foundation to the Pierce Bainbridge Law Firm's trust account and paid by attorney John Pierce” on behalf of the foundation.
In this article: Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted Friday of all charges after fatally shooting 2 people and injuring one more. His attorney told reporters that his previous attorneys wanted to use the teen for a "cause." Lawyers Lin Wood and John Pierce left the teen's team before the homicide trial began.
Kyle Rittenhouse's defense attorney Mark Richards told CNN that the teen's former attorneys were using him for "a cause" rather than simply representing a client. Richards said he was hired by Rittenhouse's prior attorneys, Lin Wood and John Pierce.
Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with killing two people during protests that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin last summer, retained a new attorney prior to his first in-person court hearing Friday.
Following the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse on all charges, Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger, the lead prosecutor in this case, said in a statement that "while we are disappointed with the verdict, it must be respected."