Ethics group demands to know whether Trump benefited financially from 'lawfare' lawsuit
Source: Raw Story
April 6, 2026 5:17PM ET
The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has filed a civil suit seeking records that could indicate whether President Donald Trump profited personally from his litigation against the federal government over his prosecutions prior to the 2024 presidential election.
Trump faced two federal prosecutions, both brought by special counsel Jack Smith: one for conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, and one for illegally removing thousands of highly classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago country club in Florida. Both prosecutions encountered several procedural hurdles and were ultimately dropped after Trump was re-elected.
Even before that happened, though, Trump filed a massive lawsuit against his prosecutions — and this is the subject of the CREW litigation.
"Before his re-election, President Trump reportedly submitted two FTCA complaints to the DOJ seeking approximately $230 million in damages related to his federal criminal prosecutions," stated the filing. "Now that he has been re-elected, President Trump’s FTCA complaints pose an unprecedented and unavoidable conflict of interest, as his entitlement to a taxpayer-funded windfall will be evaluated by his own administration, staffed by his former personal attorneys."
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-lawsuit-2676671358/
Link to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) PRESS RELEASE - CREW sues the DOJ for records on Trump’s $230 million FTCA claim
Link to SUIT (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.291166/gov.uscourts.dcd.291166.1.0.pdf
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