Jan. 8 (UPI) — President Donald Trump seeks $6.26 million in attorney fees and costs spent defending against charges filed against him in the dismissed Georgia election-interference case.
The president filed the motion for attorney’s fees and legal costs with the Fulton County Superior Court on Wednesday morning, which could be the first of several such filings by more than a dozen co-defendants.
“In accordance with Georgia law, President Trump has moved the court to award reasonable attorney fees and costs incurred in his defense of the politically motivated, and now rightfully dismissed, case brought by the disqualification of DA Fani Willis,” said lead attorney Steve Sadow in a statement.
Sadow included more than 200 pages of evidence documenting the payments and legal costs paid by Trump.
They include $2.31 million paid to the Jennifer Little law firm, $1.46 million to the firm of attorney Drew Findling and $1.52 million to Sadow’s law firm.
The filing also details legal fees to other attorneys and costs paid, which include a $7,500 premium paid on a bail bond and $700,000 for document management and imaging services.
Georgia lawmakers in 2025 passed a measure that was signed into law and enables defendants in criminal cases to recover their legal costs when a prosecutor is removed from the case due to prosecutorial misconduct.
The law gives respective defendants up to 45 days to file motions for attorney fees and legal costs after a case is dismissed, which the judge presiding over the case decides to grant or deny.
Former Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is a Democrat and brought the charges against Trump and his 18 co-defendants in August 2023 due to their efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
Willis obtained indictments against Trump and other defendants based on alleged violations of Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law.
A successful prosecution could have resulted in prison sentences of between five and 20 years.
After Willis was removed from the case, Peter Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia, was appointed lead prosecutor and filed to dismiss the charges in November.
Skandalakis said the acts by Trump and his co-defendants were insufficient to successfully convict them on state RICO violations, and a Fulton County Superior Court judge dismissed the case on Nov. 26.