Project Veritas is urging a federal court to make the U.S. government pay for all the costs associated with a review of materials government agents seized from the journalism group’s founder and two former employees. Special master Barbara Jones, a retired lawyer appointed last month as a special master in the case, proposed Project Veritas and the government split the costs. But government lawyers pushed U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres, an Obama nominee overseeing the case, to force Project Veritas to pay everything. They cited how the government opposed the appointment of a special master. “In light of the circumstances presented, the Petitioners should bear the full cost of the Special Master’s compensation and expenses, principally because they are ‘responsible … for the reference to a master,'” U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams, a Biden nominee, told Torres in a recent letter. Project Veritas lawyers …
Project Veritas Urges Court to Make US Government Pay for All Costs of Special Master Review
January 18, 2022
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