A New York judge has ordered disgraced former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon to pay his former attorneys nearly $500,000 in unpaid legal fees for work on various legal matters. Jinkies, it's hard to believe that a man who described his subordinates as a "c-nt" while he was the head honcho at Breitbart would be a deadbeat.
He was a shitty husband, too. Bannon's then-wife claimed he pulled at her neck and wrist during an altercation over their finances. A police officer reported witnessing red marks on her neck and wrist.
He's a deadbeat in every aspect of his life.
CNN reports:
A New York judge has ordered Steve Bannon to pay his former attorneys nearly $500,000 in unpaid legal fees for work on various legal matters, including his fight against a subpoena by the congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack.
The law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP sued Bannon in February alleging he failed to pay his legal bills for work the lawyers did for him on the congressional investigation as well as criminal investigations into his efforts to crowdfund a wall along the southern US border.
In a six-page order issued Friday, Judge Arlene Bluth ordered Bannon to pay $480,487.87 in unpaid bills as well as "reasonable legal fees" to his former lawyers who brought the lawsuit.
The judge granted the law firm's motion for summary judgment, saying there was no dispute that Bannon signed a retainer agreement with the law firm to cover multiple investigations beyond a criminal investigation into the We Build the Wall fundraising effort conducted by the US attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, and that Bannon "did not adequately assert that he timely objected to these invoices."
The judge noted that Bannon had paid $375,000 out of a $850,000 bill.
"Defendant cannot receive the benefit of plaintiff's legal representation and then insist he need not pay for it. And defendant did not claim, for instance, that the partial payments he made were limited solely to the SDNY case," the judge wrote.
Bannon was indicted on federal fraud charges for the 'We Build The Wall' scheme in which he was caught with others ripping off Trump supporters, so naturally, the former President pardoned him, sending a 'fuck you' to his supporters, who do not care.
