LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman provided legal funding for writer E. Jean Carroll's sexual assault lawsuit against Donald Trump, attorneys for the former president said.
Habba said the "eleventh-hour disclosure" of funding from Hoffman raises questions about potential bias in the lawsuit, as she sought a one-month delay of the trial that's scheduled to start on April 25
A philanthropic adviser to Hoffman defended the donation Thursday and said that the grant was made before Carroll filed suit "and we had no prior knowledge that our funding would go to support her in particular.
"Accordingly, we promptly disclosed to Trump’s counsel that, while Carroll stands by her testimony about this being a contingency fee case she now recalls that her counsel at some point secured additional funding from a nonprofit organization to cover certain expenses and fees."The adviser to Hoffman said "without philanthropic support to defray legal costs, Ms. Carroll might have become one of thousands of people who has been outgunned in court by Mr. Trump.
Another Trump attorney earlier this week sought a delay of the trial citing a "deluge of prejudicial media coverage" after the former president's
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