Trump’s $1.8B Fund Appears to Violate Administration’s Own Policies | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Trump's fund may violate practice, policy

WASHINGTON — The $1.8 billion fund created by the Trump administration this week to pay people who claim mistreatment by the federal government appears to violate long-standing Justice Department standards and practices, as well as a policy directive issued by…

Trump’s $1.8B fund appears to violate administration’s own policies | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

WASHINGTON >> The $1.8 billion fund created by the Trump administration this week to pay people who claim mistreatment by the federal government appears to violate long-standing Justice Department standards and practices, as well as a policy directive issued by the administration last year, legal experts said Wednesday.

Trump’s $1.8B ‘slush fund’ appears to violate a mandate created under Pam Bondi

Then-AG Pam Bondi’s memo laid out that the Justice Department should not use settlements ‘to require payments to nongovernmental, third-party organizations that were neither victims nor parties to the lawsuits’

Trump’s $1.8 billion fund appears to violate administration’s own policies

The fund that could offer payouts to Trump allies seems to contradict a policy instituted under former Attorney General Pam Bondi last year, legal experts said.

Pam Bondi may have doomed Trump's slush fund: report

The $1.8 billion fund ostensibly created to compensate people who claim mistreatment by the "weaponized" Department of Justice under President Joe Biden may face legal obstacles — ironically created by Donald Trump's own former attorney general Pam Bondi.According to the New York Times, after Bondi was sworn in as attorney general in February 2025, she immediately placed guardrails around settlements "that largely prohibited payments to groups n…

Andrew Ross Sorkin Grills Trump DOJ Lawyer on 'Slush Fund'

CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin and Joe Kernen grilled Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton on Thursday as he claimed a potential $1.776 billion IRS fund to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump is a “pretty good deal” for the government. Clayton joined Squawk Box, where Sorkin brought up reports of a potential fund being set up that would allow people who feel they were unfairly targeted by the IRS or DOJ under former Presiden…