Steve Bannon exposed as secret player in White House ‘extortion’ scheme in new filings

employees of security clearances, cut their government contracts, and barred their lawyers from federal buildings. Nine firms ultimately paid — collectively promising nearly $1 billion in free legal work for causes Trump chose — to make the orders stop.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has called the scheme “extortion.” And Lawfare explained that the continue reading …