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Justice Department's to create $1.776 billion fund for Trump's allies

The U.S. Department of Justice said it is creating a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate Trump allies who say they were unfairly targeted or wrongly investigated by previous administrations.

This fund is part of a settlement with President Trump to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over a leak of his tax return information.

Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Barbara McQuade, a law professor at the University of Michigan and a former U.S. attorney under former President Barack Obama.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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