Steve Bannon stiffs lawyers amid increased legal peril

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Steve Bannon has been stiffing his lawyers who represented him in a series of criminal cases.

The former White House chief strategist is trying to find new attorneys to defend him against money laundering and conspiracy to commit wire fraud after refusing to pay the lawyers who represented him against contempt of Congress charges, three sources told The Daily Beast.

“I don’t have any reason to believe he doesn’t have money,” said one associate.

The sources told the website that Bannon owes "significant" amounts of money to attorneys E. Even Corcoran and Robert Costello, who spent months wrangling with the Department of Justice in 2021 and 2022 before Bannon's conviction for contempt.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/steve-bannon-stiffs-lawyers-amid-increased-legal-peril/ar-AA17qc13

Like his hero Trump.

[Joinfortmill]

1. If he's got the bucks, why not pay them. Something's off. Is he gonna run?

[TheRealNorth]

2. I sometimes wonder....

Are these lawyers being paid in other ways or, "off the books". For the number of times TFG has stiffed his lawyers, they never really seem to go after him, despite him having the assets. And when you think about it, if the lawyer is being paid off the books, they benefit in 2 ways: 1) they dodge the taxes, and 2) they can claim a business loss on what was not paid.

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. Interesting speculation.

Does seem strange that Trump never seems to get sued for stiffing his lawyers.

[GreenWave]

3. Didn't he rip off $5 million from the Wall?

[no_hypocrisy]

4. New attorneys?

Not when he’s stiffed prior counsel.

[Jarqui]

5. Trump had to put up a big retainer ($3 mil?) for lawyers he

added for the Mar-a-lago classified docs case - had to be in part due to him stiffing lawyers.

Bannon can look forward to that as articles like this spread the word about him.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Who is surprised by this?

Bannon is taking a page from the TFG playbook

[keithbvadu2]

8. When you don't pay your lawyer ( from movie Let's Go to Prison)

When you don't pay your lawyer ( from movie Let's Go to Prison)