The Department of Homeland Security hired 13 employees from a prestigious, private law firm to defend Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as he faced impeachment proceedings in the House and Senate earlier this year, according to information obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The DHS spent $1,625,815.26 in federal taxpayer money on more than a dozen private attorneys and staff at Debevoise and Plimpton, a self-described “premiere” global law firm, according to internal emails obtained through the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank’s oversight project.
“It’s obscene that Mayorkas spent taxpayer dollars to hire a fancy law firm to represent himself in his impeachment,” Mike Howell, executive director of the oversight project at the Heritage Foundation, said in a statement Friday. “These records show just how elaborate his defense actually was,…
