'Former Trump adviser Carter Page latest to get lucrative Justice Department payout' [View all]

(MS NOW) "In response to highly dubious civil lawsuits, the Trump Justice Department has been exceedingly generous lately, agreeing to lucrative settlements with plaintiffs who are politically aligned with the White House. For example, the family of Ashli Babbitt, the Jan. 6 rioter fatally shot by a police officer during the attack, received roughly $5 million in taxpayer money last year."

"The list has been growing since. Former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn was recently awarded $1.25 million in a similarly dubious civil suit, and Mark Houck, a longtime anti-abortion activist, received $1.1 million in a settlement of his own. Even Donald Trump himself is in settlement talks in his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS."

"Politico reported: The Trump administration has agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle claims from 2016 Trump campaign adviser Carter Page that the FBI and Justice Department illegally entangled him in court-ordered surveillance, according to a court filing and a person familiar with the deal."

"Page sued the federal government — along with top FBI and Justice Department officials — in 2020, saying they abused their foreign intelligence surveillance authorities after his travel to Russia drew the eye of the FBI and fueled investigations of then-candidate Donald Trump’s ties to the Kremlin."

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https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/former-trump-adviser-carter-page-latest-to-get-a-lucrative-justice-department-payout

These "settlements" are little more than outright thefts from the U.S. Treasury.