"Might have to give those millions back": Legal experts say Jack Smith could "seize" Trump PAC cash

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"Might have to give those millions back": Legal experts say Jack Smith could "seize" Trump PAC cash

Smith's team is reportedly still investigating the former president's post-election fundraising scheme
By GABRIELLA FERRIGINE
News Fellow
PUBLISHED AUGUST 9, 2023 10:48AM (EDT)

https://www.salon.com/2023/08/09/might-have-to-give-those-millions-back-legal-experts-say-jack-smith-could-seize-pac-cash/

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Special counsel Jack Smith appears to be far from wrapping up his investigation into former President Donald Trump's post-2020 election scheme and his team has held at least one interview this week related to the finances of the ex-president's political action committee, according to Politico.

Smith's team on Monday interviewed Bernie Keris, a former New York City police commissioner and longtime associate of former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, according to the report. Prosecutors questioned Kerik in a "closed-door" interview about how the Save America PAC raked in huge amounts of cash between Election Day and the deadly Capitol insurrection. Kerik's lawyer, Tim Parlatore, told Politico that prosecutors were shining a "laser focus from Election Day to Jan. 6."

Parlatore also shared that prosecutors asked several questions about Boris Epshteyn, an attorney who currently works on Trump's campaign and as his in-house counsel, as well as Justin Clark, who was the deputy campaign manager of Trump's re-election.

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NPR reported last year that, per the House Jan. 6 committee's findings, "the Trump campaign took $250 million in donations from supporters that it said would go to an election defense fund to pay for legal fees to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. But the fund was never actually created, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., one of the committee members, said … in the panel's second public hearing."

"Instead, the money went to the Save America political action committee."

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. That'd be a kick in the financial pants for the billionaire.

Just kidding....he's no billionaire. In fact, I think Trump is pretty much at the end of sweetheart loans. No one wants to be in a Trump property.

[speak easy]

4. 'he's no billionaire'. Yeah that's right,

the world's first trillionaire I'd say. Nobody does bigger deals better than him, and the kids.

[Fullduplexxx]

5. someone will pop up with cash whether they want to or not

Trump needed $225 million. A little-known bank came to the rescue.
Gregory Garrabrants, a GOP donor and CEO of online Axos Bank, approved the loans after the former president’s main lender had cut ties.

there will always be these guys

[TDale313]

2. Few things would hit him harder.

I almost think he wants to be sent to prison at this point, at least temporarily. He thinks he can play the martyr card and that his minions will rise up to fight for him.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. He could join the insurrectionist choir!

[Blue Owl]

6. His precious money is all he loves -- even though he sucks at it

[Paladin]

7. DO IT, Jack Smith!

Take away the one thing trump has spent his entire life worshipping.