The RNC said the payment encompassed two years of work by the law firm Jones Day on a variety of matters.
By Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Michelle Ye Hee Lee National political enterprise and accountability reporter covering money and influence in politics Email Bio Follow Anu Narayanswamy Anu Narayanswamy Database reporter for the political enterprise team Email Bio Follow May 21 at 4:13 PM The Republican National Committee last month paid $2 million to a law firm that employs the former White House counsel Donald McGahn and serves as the Trump campaign’s main legal firm — the largest RNC payment to...
On Tuesday, McGahn was a no-show at a hearing in front of the committee, which had issued a subpoena for him to testify.Jones Day is the main legal firm for the Trump campaign, which has paid the firm $5.6 million between January 2017 and March 2019 for legal consulting. The majority of the $2 million encompassed “routine campaign and election-related legal expenses that have accrued over the course of the last few years while we worked to finalize the amounts owed,” the RNC statement read.
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