Washington (EFE) about 9 million dollars.
The balance provided this Friday by the Department of Justice specified that since Smith’s appointment in November 2022 and until March 31, his office has disbursed 5.4 million dollars in personnel, travel or material acquisition, among other services. , while other Justice Department agencies have invested $3.8 million.
Included in those 3.8 million is the cost of security assigned to the special prosecutor, who before his appointment to that task was the Hague prosecutor for war crimes in Kosovo. Another of the most important items, of 2.6 million dollars, corresponds to the payment of the salary of the personnel.
The classified documents that have Trump in suspense
Trump was charged in June before a Miami court for illegal withholding of government secrets, obstruction of justice and conspiracy, among other crimes. It was the first time in the country’s history that a former president was indicted with federal charges and that accusation came in the middle of the campaign for the 2024 presidential elections.
According to the indictment, in 2021, when he left the Presidency, the former Republican president illegally took hundreds of classified documents, including nuclear secrets, which he kept at various points in his Mar-a-Lago (Florida) mansion. such as a bedroom, a ballroom, a bathroom and a shower.
The investigation into his role in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, which took place while the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the November elections of the previous year was certified, is still open.
Trump has reiterated on numerous occasions that he considers himself the victim of a “witch hunt”, while the Prosecutor’s Office has reminded himself that no one is above the law.
Not the first time
The former president had also been indicted in March in a Manhattan (New York) court for irregular payments to silence porn actress Stormy Daniels during her 2016 election campaign. This was the first criminal offense charge launched against a former US president, in that case at the state level, not federal.
According to another report also released this Friday by the Department of Justice, special prosecutor Robert Hur, assigned to investigate the classified documents found at the Delaware home of the current president, Biden, spent $615,962 between January 12 and March 31. .