Embattled ex-special counsel Jack Smith discloses $140K ‘gift’ of free legal services
The former special counsel who brought two criminal cases against President Donald Trump received $140,000 in free legal services from a prominent Washington law firm last month.
Covington & Burling provided Jack Smith with the gift of pro-bono legal assistance, Politico first reported citing a disclosure he filed last month in connection with him leaving the Justice Department.
It’s unclear why Smith sought outside lawyers, but Trump had repeatedly ripped Smith and his team, vowing to fire them and strongly suggesting they should be criminally prosecuted.
“They ought to throw Deranged Jack Smith and his Thug Prosecutors in jail,” Trump wrote in a 2023 social media post after Smith filed a new indictment charging Trump with illegally hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and conspiring to obstruct a probe into their handling.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi earlier this month directed the Justice Department in a memo to examine its “weaponization” under the Biden administration, specifically, “Special Counsel Jack Smith and his staff who spent more than $50 million targeting President Trump, and the prosecutors and law enforcement personnel who participated in the unprecedented raid on President Trump’s home.”
However, there’s been no criminal, civil or legal ethics probe of Smith’s actions, according to Politico.
A Covington spokesperson declined comment.
