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Pam Bondi may have doomed Trump's slush fund: report [View all]
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-slush-fund-bondi/Pam Bondi may have doomed Trump's slush fund: report
Tom Boggioni
May 21, 2026 6:32AM ET
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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 not involved in an underlying lawsuit." Now those same restrictions are threatening to derail the Trump administration's controversial compensation scheme.
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According to the Times' Devlin Barrett, the memo explicitly stated that, except in "limited circumstances," the department should not use settlements "to require payments to nongovernmental, third-party organizations that were neither victims nor parties to the lawsuits."
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