Lawyers for hundreds of rioters are preparing applications for payouts

Democrats claim the DOJ has created scheme to pay out Jan. 6 rioters in IRS lawsuit settlement.

One Republican lawyer close to the administration told CBS News that they expect the fund to face court challenges even though "a lot of people in MAGA world are already counting…

President Trump's critics are fuming after the DOJ announced a $1.776 billion fund that could compensate Trump allies, including Jan. 6 defendants.

Law enforcement officers who protected the Capitol on January 6 are suing to block Trump’s slush fund.

Ed Martin, who formerly led the Department of Justice’s ‘weaponization’ task force, allegedly predicted the controversial fund earlier this year but assumed it would be much…

Two police officers who helped defend the U.S. Capitol from an attack by a mob of Trump supporters are suing to block anyone — including Jan. 6, 2021, rioters — from receiving…

The Department of Justice agreed to create the fund to settle a $10 billion lawsuit by President Trump over the leak of his tax records by an IRS employee.

Retired Capitol police officer and DC officer allege Trump’s $1.8bn fund unlawfully rewards January 6 rioters and allies

The lawsuit seeks to block the Justice Department’s new “anti-weaponization fund” created as part of a settlement with President Donald Trump.

Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges say the fund illegally rewards rioters for violence against law enforcement

Police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Trump administration for creating a fund for rioters.

The lawsuit claims the government's “Anti-Weaponization Fund" is an illegal slush fund that President Donald Trump will use to “finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary…

Meanwhile, a convicted Jan. 6 rioter told Huffpost he and others like him expected to be taken care of.

Officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 say Trump's slush fund violates the Constitution's rules around aiding insurrectionists.

Police officers who protected the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 filed a federal lawsuit against Trump's $1.776 billion slush fund for insurrectionists and his other allies.

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Two police officers who defended the US Capitol from a pro-Trump mob on January 6, 2021, filed suit Wednesday to block those who took part in the violence from receiving payouts…

Supporters of President Donald Trump who tried to overturn the 2020 election are among those eager to potentially cash in from Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion fund

President Donald Trump’s administration has created a nearly $1.8 billion fund to pay people who say they were victims of government “weaponization,” raising questions about whom…

Two police officers filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to block the Trump administration from creating a compensation fund that could provide payouts to the president's…