Trump campaign paid legal fees to firm representing Jared Kushner
Source: ABC News
President Donald Trump's campaign has spent nearly $100,000 of donor money to pay legal bills to the firm representing Jared Kushner, the latest campaign finance records show.
The president's re-election campaign made two payments to the firm, Winston & Strawn LLP $55,330 and $42,574. The expenditures were payments to Kushner's attorney Abbe Lowell for Kushners legal fees, sources with knowledge of the payments told to ABC News. Lowell joined the firm in May 2018.
Low dollar contributions $200 or less made up 98.5 percent of the total funds raised by the Trump campaign in the last quarter of 2018, a consistent trend throughout the year, according to a press release by the campaign, along with the latest campaign finance filings.
Kushner, who is married to Trumps eldest daughter Ivanka, is a real estate scion who earned more than $1.7 million in income in 2015, the year before he joined his wifes family to work in the White House, according to a New York Times review of confidential financial documents published in October. His net worth has been estimated at more than $300 million.
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And the criminals keep being true to their natures...
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)Misuse of donor money for personal use? Is this corruption at its finest?
ffr
(22,670 posts)Ruh-roh!
Lock them up!
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Every day now we learn more criminal acts have been committed by trump. How many days of this before republicans help remove him from office? They're destroying their own party allowing this to continue like this, and it'll only get worse for him , and them.
Botany
(70,516 posts)n/t
FACT
Andy823
(11,495 posts)Didn't break "yet"! Give him time.
wishstar
(5,270 posts)I believe I also read that Hope Hicks and maybe a couple others who were part of campaign got help on legal bills related to their lawyering up to deal with Mueller probe.
billh58
(6,635 posts)This includes more than $276,000 the Trump campaign spent between October 2017 and April 2018 to cover some of the legal bills for the president's then personal attorney Michael Cohen, who was in a joint defense agreement with Trump.
The Republican National Committee also paid nearly $590,000 to a firm representing Trump's former communications director Hope Hicks, who appeared before the House Intelligence Committee last February for a closed-door interview related to Russia interference. According to Republicans and Democrats on the panel, Hicks refused to answer questions about her time in the White House. The Trump campaign and the RNC together also paid firms representing Donald Trump, Jr., more than $514,000.
More recently, the Trump campaign paid more than $173,000 to Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, a law firm that has represented former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, and more than $101,000 to Larocca, Hornik, Greenberg & Blaha, a firm that represents Trump's security team. The campaign also drastically upped its payment to Trump's attorney Mark Kasowitz' firm, according to the latest campaign finance report.
The Trump campaign has spent more than $6.7 million in legal fees in the last two years.