Special counsel Jack Smith, leading the investigation into Trump, has spent over $9 million since late last year, according to DOJ.
Smith has spent about $5.4 million on personnel, rent, and other costs from his budget and brought back another $3.8 million in spending by other DOJ agencies in the four months after he was picked last November to lead the investigation and other probes involving alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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The report only accounts for Smith’s spending through March. It does not include the period leading up to Trump’s indictment in June or the increased activity in the election investigation, as the special counsel started the process for a second Florida grand jury.
The report said that part of the $3.8 million includes the cost of Smith’s security detail in the high-profile investigations.
When Smith was brought on, the investigations involving Trump had already been underway. He kept most of the already involved staff but added more prosecutors in recent months.
The report doesn’t include how much the DOJ had already spent on the probes before bringing on Smith.
The special counsel, who had headed the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section, left his job in Europe, where he was prosecuting war crimes, and returned to Washington to take over the investigations on Trump.
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Meanwhile, special counsel Robert Hur, appointed in January to examine President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, spent $615,000 through March, with the DOJ incurring another $572,000 in expenses, according to another report.
John Durham, the special counsel appointed to examine the origins of the Russian conspiracy probe involving Trump’s first election campaign, spent $1.11 million in the six months before March 31 while wrapping up his investigation of the FBI, with the DOJ adding in another $59,000.
