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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHerman Cain's sex scandals? PRICELESS! The legal bills, per FEC filings? $316,262.
Herman Cain Campaign Spent $316,262 on Post-Scandal Legal Bills
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/02/08/herman_cain_campaign_spent_316_262_on_post_scandal_legal_bills.html
By David Weigel | Posted Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, at 12:43 PM ET
One question kept on nagging me in the final days of the Cain Train: How much was the guy spending on a legal defense? While his campaign was sending out fundraising e-mails with titles like "Cain Attacked by Accuser; Will Not Stop His Effort to Renew America," how much money was he giving to lawyers?
Answer, according to his fourth quarter FEC filings: $316,262.12. Some of that was standard. On November 1, the Cain campaign paided $3,096.50 to Troupis Law Office LLC, and on December 14 it paid that firm another $11,452.40. But this was the law firm handling the campaign's regular legal work. The big spending started on November 8 with $20,000 to McDermott, Will and Emery, shortly after the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel broke news of possible pre-campaign FEC violations by the Cain organization, and a week after Politico's reporting on Cain's old sexual harassment settlements began. On November 14 the campaign handed $25,000 to Blank Rome, LLP, but most of the expenses didn't go out until after Cain winded down -- sorry, suspended -- the campaign. On December 14, the campaign paid $44,372.72 to Blank Rome, and $153,937.60 to McDermott, Will and Emery, and on December 28, the campaign paid another $58,402.40 to McDermott, Will and Emery.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/02/08/herman_cain_campaign_spent_316_262_on_post_scandal_legal_bills.html
By David Weigel | Posted Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, at 12:43 PM ET
One question kept on nagging me in the final days of the Cain Train: How much was the guy spending on a legal defense? While his campaign was sending out fundraising e-mails with titles like "Cain Attacked by Accuser; Will Not Stop His Effort to Renew America," how much money was he giving to lawyers?
Answer, according to his fourth quarter FEC filings: $316,262.12. Some of that was standard. On November 1, the Cain campaign paided $3,096.50 to Troupis Law Office LLC, and on December 14 it paid that firm another $11,452.40. But this was the law firm handling the campaign's regular legal work. The big spending started on November 8 with $20,000 to McDermott, Will and Emery, shortly after the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel broke news of possible pre-campaign FEC violations by the Cain organization, and a week after Politico's reporting on Cain's old sexual harassment settlements began. On November 14 the campaign handed $25,000 to Blank Rome, LLP, but most of the expenses didn't go out until after Cain winded down -- sorry, suspended -- the campaign. On December 14, the campaign paid $44,372.72 to Blank Rome, and $153,937.60 to McDermott, Will and Emery, and on December 28, the campaign paid another $58,402.40 to McDermott, Will and Emery.
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Herman Cain's sex scandals? PRICELESS! The legal bills, per FEC filings? $316,262. (Original Post)
Amerigo Vespucci
Feb 2012
OP
Yeah, he was the Cream All right...too much cream and ya get OUTED on National TV...LOL
opihimoimoi
Feb 2012
#5
KansDem
(28,498 posts)1. Job Creator!!!
$316,262 will keep a lot of lawyers employed!
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)2. Horny Herman was one of the best the GOP had to offer.
The cream of their crop.
opihimoimoi
(52,426 posts)5. Yeah, he was the Cream All right...too much cream and ya get OUTED on National TV...LOL
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)6. Yep, Herman was the bee's knees six weeks ago and now...
the big shots in the GOP can't get far enough away from their old buddy Herman.
Herman went from Hero to Hades in very short order. Noot is a man whore too. Rick is a fundie fuckwad. Mitt is dumber than Dan Quale and Ron Paul wants to take away everybody's Social Security and Medicare and start the new American T-4 camps to take care of the elderly Untermenschen. What's not to hate about the GOP?
nykym
(3,063 posts)3. nein nein nein!