as i mentioned, richard secord later plead guilty in that scandal. legal defense funds are supposed to help people who have been caught up in a scandal, but they can themselves be a scandal. they can be opaque if you're not careful. they can very easily become slush funds where you take in money from people you shouldn't be taking money from. you pay it out to people who shouldn't be getting paid. even when you do it super carefully and try to be completely aboveboard, something rotten always happens with these things. in the whitewater scandal in the clinton years, the clinton administration set up legal defense fund, and they dotted all their i's and crossed all their t's. they did it all quite openly. they made a public announcement about the details of the fund there was nothing secret about it. they appointed independent trustees to manage it. they made clear they would refuse to take any money from any lobbyist or anyone in any foreign country. they even set a low cap, a low dollar amount cap for how much any one person could contribute. so nob

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