OFA, Obama’s official campaign arm in 2016, paid nearly $800,000 to Perkins Coie in 2016 alone, according to FEC records. The first 2016 payments to Perkins Coie, classified only as “Legal Services,” were made April 25-26, 2016, and totaled $98,047. A second batch of payments, also classified as “Legal Services,” were disbursed to the law firm on September 29, 2016, and totaled exactly $700,000. Payments from OFA to Perkins Coie in 2017 totaled $174,725 through August 22, 2017.
Federal records show that Hillary Clinton’s official campaign organization,
Hillary For America, paid just under $5.1 million to Perkins Coie in 2016. The
DNC paid nearly $5.4 million to the law firm in 2016.
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