According to Federal Election Commission records, the Trump campaign paid a California legal company that counts Kennedy among its attorneys just weeks after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdrew from the presidential race in August and endorsed Donald Trump.
According to FEC documents, on September 13, just three weeks after Kennedy withdrew from the race and endorsed Trump, the Trump campaign—now known as Never Surrender Inc.—paid $100,000 to JW Howard Attorneyson. Financial information for Trump’s campaign, which changed its name to Never Surrender and became a leadership PAC, may be found in FEC filings.
Kennedy is listed as one of three attorneys practicing from the Los Angeles region and as a constitutional and environmental litigator on the website of a legal company with that name that has locations in San Diego and Pasadena, California.
According to FEC records, the Trump campaign did not make any additional payments to JW Howard Attorneys during the 2023–24 election season. The company received five payments from Team Kennedy between August 2023 and April 2024. According to the documents, as of mid-October 2024, JW Howard had not received any payments from any other campaign or group.
According to Kennedy’s own financial statement, which was submitted to the federal Office of Government Ethics in July 2024, he has an employment contract with JW Howard that runs from January 2023 to December 2024 and is subject to yearly renewal. According to the same report, Kennedy received about $409,000 in 2023 from JW Howard.
In August, Kennedy dropped out of the race for president and backed Trump, who last month appointed Kennedy as his nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services.
Requests for response from JW Howard, Kennedy, and the Trump transition team were not answered.
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