All posts tagged "Legal Fees"

The Campaign Legal Center, a prominent ethics watchdog group, is warning that a scheme by former President Donald Trump's campaign to conceal payments to his legal defense could be afoul of the law, reported USA Today on Wednesday.

This comes after new reports this week revealed that Trump funneled payments from his 2024 presidential campaign to his attorneys through a compliance firm called Red Curve Solutions, at a moment when he is facing multiple criminal cases — and classified the money as "reimbursements" in filings with the Federal Election Commission.

"Red Curve Solutions helps political campaigns with a range of services, including 'comprehensive budgeting, accounting and financial management and compliance services,' according to the company's LinkedIn page," reported Zac Anderson. "Campaigns often pay outside organizations to manage polling, consulting or other needs. The Campaign Legal Center said in its Wednesday release that virtually all of the payments from Trump's campaign and committees are described as 'Reimbursement for Legal Fees' or 'Reimbursement for Legal Expenses' — despite the fact that Red Curve Solutions is not a law firm itself."...

After Donald Trump was issued a $355 million fine in the New York Fraud case, conversations began about where the money would come from.

After complaints about Ronna Romney McDaniel's election failures, Republicans began gunning for her job and looking for alternatives. That's when Donald Trump's allies began suggesting his daughter-in-law, Lara. Now that it looks like she's going to be the likely chief, donors are wondering if Trump will try and use the national Republican Party to fund his legal bills or his fines.

NBC News' Vaughn Hillyard spoke to Chris LaCivita, who is expected to take over the RNC's operations. He conveyed that the party will not be using the funds on Trump. ...

Trump-aligned Republicans attempting to take over the Republican National Committee, including the former president's own daughter-in-law Lara Trump, are pushing for the party to directly contribute to Trump's legal expenses, which have rapidly grown as he faces a wide variety of civil and criminal cases.

But that is not actually something most Republicans want to do, South Carolina GOP strategist Katon Dawson told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Thursday evening.

"We have disclosed that we're pals," said Reid. "Let's talk about this. Is it true that Republican voters would be all too happy to pay Donald Trump's legal bills?"...

Donald Trump's decision to offer payment of legal fees to potential witnesses was an act of obstruction, according to Special Counsel Jack Smith's legal filing that has recently been unsealed.

In a recently publicized filing from when Smith was seeking access to the former president's Twitter account in connection with the criminal case over Trump's 2020 election subversion efforts, Smith states the ways in which Trump has tried to undermine the criminal investigation. One of those methods is the paying of potential witnesses' legal fees, which is an issue in other Trump cases, as well.

"The former President's obstructive efforts continue unabated with respect to this investigation here, in which he has determined to pay the legal fees of potential witnesses against him and repeatedly disparaged the lead prosecutor on his Truth Social platform," the filing states....