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Top Trump allies facing charges lose lawyers after failing to pay legal bills

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2y ago

Top Trump allies facing charges lose lawyers after failing to pay legal bills

www.theguardian.com /us-news/2023/oct/31/top-trump-allies-facing-charges-lose-lawyers-after-failing-to-pay-legal-bills

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2y ago

Top Trump allies facing charges lose lawyers after failing to pay legal bills

www.theguardian.com /us-news/2023/oct/31/top-trump-allies-facing-charges-lose-lawyers-after-failing-to-pay-legal-bills

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Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Lindell
So, anyway, y'all do anything fun for Halloween?
- I dressed up as Darth Vader and took my kids out. It was popular. I had several kids assure me they were on the side of the Empire. Then when they got past me, they were like, "I'm really a Jedi," and run away. It was a good time other than I was completely blind. I couldn't have chased those little younglings down if I'd wanted.
  Anyway what were we talking about? Broke dipshits who chose irrelevance when they had the option of being rich and silent? Meh.
  
  lol, that's amazing. I'm imagining you with a deep voice... "ARE YOU WITH THE EMPIRE OR REBEL SCUM?!"
At this point I suspect it's a new scam. These people are clearly deliberately not paying their lawyers. Once the lawyers are done, they move on to new ones.
I'm wondering whether the lawyers are complicit – I guess not. But I honestly have no idea whether Trump & co. are generating profits through this scheme.
Edit: so, one way to establish a scam in this way is for the lawyers to demonstrate how they'd defend other conservatives. By defending people around Trump, these lawyers, for example, might be introduced to potential conservative clients. When they find enough clients they call it a day, and cancel the contract with the powerful people who don't pay them.
- Wouldn't the lawyers just do it pro bono if it was a marketing thing?
  
  No, they would then look bad for pulling out. This way it looks reasonable to pull out.
- So maybe they are only performing token work at the moment? Handing in documents late, not bothering to read evidence etc
  That is brilliant actually.
  Most lawyers do the minimum work possible anyhow in my experience — have ditched four so far.
  The very first one failed to write the letter he promised and yet billed me for our one hour meeting (where he failed to disclose costs). I naively thought he was an anomaly. I did win my case with my fifth lawyer eventually.
Posting this on c/usnews should be enough.
- Sorry, am new. I saw this other relatively trivial Trump post approved here so I thought it was OK.
  I won't leave it to the mods. Will police myself in future.
  
  Mods appears to be flexible with rule and take gentler approach when it's not abuse. That's a good approach.
  The line can be blurry between US News that's relevant at the local/national level and fit better within c/usnews, and relevant globally and may fit better in c/worldnews readers. Here I'd argue it's the former.

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