Steve Bannon sued for nearly $500,000 in alleged unpaid legal bills

A regulation agency that represented former Trump adviser Steve Bannon is suing him for nearly $500,000 in unpaid legal bills.In a lawsuit filed Friday in New York state courtroom, regulation agency Davidoff Hutcher & Citron alleges that Bannon has an excellent invoice of greater than $480,000 for legal providers it offered from round November 2020 by means of November 2022. “This motion merely seeks fee of an excellent invoice for legal providers rendered in the quantity of $480,487.87 in addition to scheduling a listening to on the affordable attorneys’ charges DHC is contractually entitled to because the prevailing occasion in this litigation,” the agency’s lawsuit says. NBC Information has reached out to Bannon for remark.The regulation agency represented Bannon in some high-profile instances, together with when he was subpoenaed by the Home choose committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol assault in the final Congress and his subsequent trial for defying the subpoena. Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress final yr in that case and was sentenced to 4 months in jail; he’s interesting the conviction. The agency additionally represented him in an investigation into expenses that he defrauded donors who have been giving cash to construct a wall on the southern U.S. border.Former President Donald Trump pardoned Bannon in the federal border wall case, however the Manhattan district lawyer’s workplace indicted Bannon final yr on state expenses, together with cash laundering, scheming to defraud, and conspiracy in what prosecutors described as a yearlong scheme. Bannon pleaded not responsible to the fees.In its swimsuit, the regulation agency claims that Bannon’s legal charges and expanses totaled greater than $855,000, and he paid solely $375,000 of the whole invoice.Robert Costello, a accomplice of the agency, typically represented Bannon, however it’s unclear if he nonetheless does. Costello declined NBC Information’ request for remark.