The office of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s statement of expenditures revealed the investigator spent over $1.8 million for 'contractual services' on two investigations.
This means that in four months, Smith has spent the equivalent of over 70 percent of Durham's two-and-a-half-year-old investigation's total cost.The footnote breaking down the total $1,881,926 noted that $1,674,947 went to"litigation/investigative support," $143,493 was used for"IT services," $63,151 went to"transcripts," and $335 was used"for other services.
A Department of Justice spokesperson told Fox News Digital that Smith inherited two separate investigations that had already well advanced and that the bulk of the support money is going toward litigation and staff expenses for the two investigations. Smith has been under scrutiny since being tapped by Attorney General Merrick Garland to run point on investigating the former president’s trove of sensitive documents found at Mar-a-Lago.
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