All posts tagged "Legal Bills"

Rudy Giuliani accused his most famous client's campaign of stiffing him for a $2 million tab.

Giuliani appeared in U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday after filing for Chapter 11 protection in December when a Georgia jury ordered him to pay $148 million for defaming a mother and her daughter who sued him for defaming them when they served as election workers back in 2020.

In meeting with creditors, Giuliani says Donald Trump’s 2020 election campaign and the Republican National Committee are in arrears of $2 million for legal fees, according to Bloomberg Law. ...

A political fundraising committee tied to former President Donald Trump has diverted $2.3 million to pay the legal bills of former first daughter Ivanka Trump, reported Business Insider on Tuesday.

"The group, called Save America PAC, spent a combined $2.3 million in 2023 for two law firms that represented Ivanka Trump, his eldest daughter, according to a Business Insider review of Federal Election Commission records," reported Jacob Sherman. "The PAC spent an additional $5.3 million on the law firm Robert & Robert, which represented his three eldest children — Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and Donald Trump, Jr. — as well as the Trump Organization in an array of lawsuits that have no apparent relation to Trump's campaign to retake the presidency in the 2024 election."

"Trump founded Save America shortly after he lost the 2020 presidential election," noted the report. "He's used it as his primary fundraising vehicle, often sending out messages making false claims about the 2020 election and his legal problems to convince donors to give it money."...

Donald Trump may appear to be sitting pretty financially for now, but the world is about to crash in on him, according to a former official in the ex-president's administration.

Former White House communications chief Anthony Scaramucci appeared on MSNBC's Alex Witt Reports on Saturday, where he was asked if Trump is going to be forced to liquidate assets to pay columnist E. Jean Carroll's $83.3 million jury award in a defamation case. In an earlier trial, the former president was found liable for sexually assaulting Carroll in the 1990s.

"Will he have to liquidate assets?" the host asked. ...