Trump campaign paid Donald Trump Jr's lawyer $50,000 two weeks before email scandal

[Jacque67 7,328]

About two weeks before the release of emails showing Donald Trump Jr. seeking opposition research from attorneys representing the Russian government, his father’s reelection campaign began paying the law firm now representing Trump Jr. in the ensuing political and legal fallout.

A new filing with the Federal Election Commission shows that President Trump’s reelection campaign paid $50,000 to the law offices of Alan Futerfas on June 26. That was around the time, Yahoo News reports, that the president’s legal team learned of a June 2016 email exchange in which Trump Jr., through an associate, solicited damaging information about 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton.

When the New York Times revealed the email, and the meeting it set up, last week, Trump Jr. hired Futerfas, who is best known for representing four of New York’s major Italian mob families. The announcement of the hire came not from the Trump campaign but from the president’s company, where Trump Jr. remains a trustee.

Trump Jr. does not yet face any official allegations of legal wrongdoing, but he and the White House have scrambled to contain the political fallout from the controversy. 

The first son has offered numerous explanations—most of them contradicted by subsequent developments—for the meeting with the Russian lawyers, whom Trump’s friend told him were representatives of the Russian government and providing information to the campaign as part of the Kremlin’s efforts to support Trump’s candidacy.

It was not immediately clear whether the campaign expenditure was renumeration for Futerfas’s representation of Trump’s son, on Russia-related or other matters. But the payment sticks out on a presidential campaign’s expenditure list: Futerfas’s expertise is in white collar criminal defense, not political and election law.

[CaliCat 3,957]

Surely, it was just for him to replenish petty cash. Be sure to wear a heavy cote. The snow storm will be huge on this one.

[Jacque67 7,328]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-paid-don-jrs-lawyer-dollar50000-two-weeks-before-email-scandal

[Jacque67 7,328]

Just now, CaliCat said:

Surely, it was just for him to replenish petty cash. Be sure to wear a heavy cote. The snow storm will be huge on this one.

Yeah, Kasowitz appears to have an alcohol problem, lol! And Ty Cobb will serve as Special Counsel...a government employee, not personal counsel, so more billing for taxpayers!

Shep Smith complains of lie after lie after lie, Chris Wallace is bemused, and even Drudge is reporting on the Donnie Jr scandal.

Funniest story ever!

Lets not forget Rob Goldstone...would definitely pay to see him testify.

 

Trump off in Bedminster checking out golf chicks and making yet more money for himself...will need for legal fees.

hahaha 

[Jacque67 7,328]

Futerfas says the person, who he declined to name, was a US citizen and said he was not employed by the Russian government. But Futerfas acknowledged he didn't know his entire history. The Agalarovs and their attorney have not publicly explained who the employee was who attended. 

Futerfas says during his conversation the Agalarov representative corroborated what has already been reported about the meeting: that in the first couple of minutes there were pleasantries exchanged and then the Russian lawyer discussed the information she allegedly had about Russia donating to the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton before moving on to the topic of adoptions.

Futerfas says he has never spoken to Rinat Akhmetshin.

He also says no one to whom he has spoken, including his client, Trump Jr., has any recollection of the document that the Russian lawyer is reported to have left behind in the meeting. Futerfas said it is possible that the participants don't remember. 

As for whether Trump Jr. will voluntarily testify in response to a request from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Futerfas would only say, "We are in discussions with the various committees."

He also defended Trump Jr. as being willing to tell the full story even before the initial New York Times article appeared.

"Don Jr. and his counsel were fully prepared and absolutely prepared to publish or make a statement that was a fulsome statement about the nature of the meeting, what led to the meeting, what the conversation was in the meeting"

Futerfas also confirmed that the $50,000 that the Trump re-election campaign paid in June to his firm was, at least in part, for work he's now doing for Donald Trump Jr.

[Jacque67 7,328]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/17/politics/donald-trump-jr-agalarov/index.html

 

hmm..another "fulsome statement"(lol) from Futerfas! 

8th person so transparent impossible to ID?

no collusion...collusion not technically illegal.

oh the webs we weave...

 

so so ivanka or doll hands?

 

 

[Jacque67 7,328]

Goldstone reportedly cutting holiday short...in a panic. Classy guy!

[Jacque67 7,328]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/growing-cast-lawyers-signing-defend-trump-team-48690570

 

ex trump aide liquidating kids college funds to pay legal fees, Trump Campaign paying Jr.,'s.

 

way to go.

[JimandChristy 1,689]

Who doesn't like a little bit of collusion?

[Jacque67 7,328]

Futerfas is gonna develop an alcohol problem like Kasowitz with the latest scandal.

 

he better learn how to write English if he wants to win this case...looking forward to more "fulsome statements " hahaha

[Jacque67 7,328]

Shock! More abuse of campaign funds. fox not paying, getting campaign to do so for pro-trump pundits!!!

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/pro-trump-tv-pundits-firm-took-undisclosed-payments-from-trump-campaign/2017/07/19/a7ae21f8-6bef-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html