Mar 19, 2022 · The March 10 ruling ordered the Trump campaign to pay more than $303,000 for Johnson’s legal fees and expenses. Johnson, 46, said she was “really happy” with the decision. Trump’s lawyers “wanted to handcuff me for four years,” Johnson said in a brief interview Friday. “They came after me pretty hard.”. Her lawyer, Hassan Zavareei, said Friday that the Trump …
Nov 05, 2020 · Mounting legal fees for Trump’s reelection campaign. Using campaign funds to pay legal fees is typical. An analysis of Federal Election Commission records by Bloomberg Law in July 2019 showed ...
Aug 02, 2021 · Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani is almost broke and Trump doesn’t seem to care all that much, sources have told The New York Times. Giuliani is currently struggling under a mountain of legal fees as he attempts to fend off a major federal investigation and answer a $1.3 billion lawsuit.
Mar 22, 2022 · Stormy Daniels Loses Appeal, Forced To Pay Trump $300,000 In Attorneys’ Fees. Stormy And Trump Both Respond. Porn star Stormy Daniels, real name Stephanie Clifford, has been ordered to pay nearly $300,000 in attorneys’ fees to former President Donald Trump, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit “said it …
Campaign finance records show the campaign spent more than $8 million between January 2017 and April 2019 — including $1.7 million spent in the first three months of 2019 alone, ABC News found in a report last year.
By comparison, President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign spent $2.7 million in legal fees over the same two years of his first term. In total, ABC News reported Trump’s reelection campaign, the Republican National Committee and joint fundraising committees have shelled out $50 million on law firms since 2016.
Hayley Fowler is a reporter at The Charlotte Observer covering breaking and real-time news across North and South Carolina. She has a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and previously worked as a legal reporter in New York City before joining the Observer in 2019.
President Donald Trump is mounting his legal defense in key battleground states as officials continue the arduous process of tallying the absentee and mail-in votes that will decide the 2020 presidential election.
Biden has responded in kind by expanding his legal team and resources in what one of his campaign advisers called a “massive election protection program,” ABC News reported in September. But court proceedings are expensive, and some have questioned who will foot bill.
But unlike ballot recounts in certain states, election lawsuits aren’t funded by taxpayers. Instead, the Federal Election Commission dictates campaign ...
Instead, the Federal Election Commission dictates campaign funds can be used to cover legal expenses on a case-by-case basis , specifically to “defray expenses incurred in proceedings that directly relate to the candidate’s campaign activities or officeholder duties,” according to its website.
The Magnitsky Act. The latest Trump associate to hire a lawyer is Donald Trump Jr. Based on his own emails and interviews, he eagerly attended a meeting in 2016 with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer who he believed had opposition research on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
When Hillary Clinton ran for Senate in 2000, as her husband was winding down his presidency, her personal financial disclosure showed they owed lawyers somewhere between $2.3 million and $10.6 million. Disclosures in later years indicated the Clintons paid up.
While the White House lawyers are paid government salaries, by taxpayers, the Trump White House has not indicated how much the private lawyers are being paid, or by whom. This kind of legal representation doesn't come cheap.
As Clinton faced impeachment in 1998, supporters established a trust fund to raise money to cover the Clintons’ bills, which eventually exceeded $10 million because of the years-long Whitewater investigation into a real estate deal, the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit and the impeachment proceedings and trial.
Trump’s campaign committee is not directly paying impeachment-related legal bills, according to a campaign official, although the campaign does transfer money to the RNC from time to time. Story continues below advertisement.
Advertisement. Seated around a cramped, arc-shaped table in front of the president’s jury of 100 senators, the government lawyers include Patrick F. Philbin, who worked with Cipollone at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis, and Michael M. Purpura, a former federal prosecutor and top Justice Department official.
arrow-right. The Republican National Committee is picking up the tab for at least two of Trump’s private attorneys in the ongoing trial, an arrangement that differs from the legal fund President Bill Clinton set up, only to see it fail to raise enough to cover his millions of dollars in bills before he left office.
President Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow, center, stands with his son, Jordan Sekulow, left, and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, in the Great Hall of the White House on Jan 28. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)