Marc Elias, Election-Denying Democratic Lawyer, Raked in Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars From Bob Casey’s Longshot Recount
10th December 2024
Democrats paid controversial elections lawyer Marc Elias hundreds of thousands of dollars in a failed bid to help Sen. Bob Casey (D.) overturn the results of the Pennsylvania Senate election, according to campaign records.
The Casey campaign paid $36,435 to Elias’s firm, the Elias Law Group, from November 15 to November 25, campaign finance disclosures show. The campaign contributed $2.2 million to the “legal fund” for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which in turn paid the Elias Law Group $313,776 on November 20. The firm represented the Casey campaign and the DSCC in lawsuitsin multiple Pennsylvania counties to count mail-in and provisional ballots.
The Democratic National Committee paid the Elias Law Group $305,000 for “legal services,” records show. It is unclear if all of those funds went toward Elias’s work on behalf of Casey, but the first payment of $100,000 was made on November 8, the day Elias joined the Casey recount effort. In all, Democrats paid the Elias Law Group more than $650,000 in the weeks after the election.