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Trump’s $1.8B ‘slush fund’ appears to violate a mandate created more than a year ago: legal experts (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago

Then-AG Pam Bondi’s memo laid out that the Justice Department should not use settlements ‘to require payments to nongovernmental, third-party organizations that were neither victims nor parties to the lawsuits’