CNN —A New York judge has ordered Steve Bannon to pay his former attorneys nearly $500,000 in unpaid legal fees for work on various legal matters, including his fight against a subpoena by the congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack.
In a six-page order issued Friday, Judge Arlene Bluth ordered Bannon to pay $480,487.87 in unpaid bills as well as “reasonable legal fees” to his former lawyers who brought the lawsuit.
“Defendant cannot receive the benefit of plaintiff’s legal representation and then insist he need not pay for it.
An attorney representing Bannon in the litigation over past legal fees did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Bannon was convicted at trial of contempt of Congress for failing to respond to the subpoena and is appealing.
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Steve Bannon, Davidoff Hutcher, Citron, Bannon, Arlene Bluth, ”, Bannon “, “, Donald Trump
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CNN, US, Southern, of, Manhattan
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York, of New York