Former president Donald Trump is demanding that the American taxpayers pay half the costs associated with the special master he requested to review materials seized by federal agents during the search of Mar-a-Lago last month. But the Department of Justice is not on board with that.
In a motion filed late Friday, both sides submitted their areas of agreement and disagreement, including nominees to be special master and who will compensate the individual for their time.
In his filing, Trump requested to split evenly the professional fees and expenses of the Special Master and any professionals, support staff, and expert consultants engaged at the Master’s request.”
“The Government’s position is that, as the party requesting the special master, Plaintiff should bear the additional expense of the Special Master’s work,” federal lawyers wrote in their response.
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Each side also proposed two nominees for the position of a special master. The Trump team’s candidates are Raymond J Dearie, a former chief judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, who served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and formerly the US attorney for the Eastern District of New York; and Paul Huck Jr, founder of The Huck Law Firm, former Jones Day partner, former general counsel to the governor, former deputy attorney general for the State of Florida.
The government is proposing the Honorable Barbara Jones, a retired judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, and a partner in Bracewell LLP; and Thomas B Griffith, a retired circuit judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, special counsel in Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, and a lecturer at Harvard Law School.
