| The campaign reimbursed firms owned by Bernard Kerik and Rudolph W. Giuliani more than $225,000, including $55,295 for rooms and suites at the posh Willard hotel in Washington, which served as a base of operations for efforts to deny Joe Biden the presidency in the days leading up to and just after the attack on the Capitol. The fact that campaign funds were used to finance those efforts could complicate the former president's ongoing attempt to shield documents and testimony from the congressional committee investigating Jan. 6, according to some legal scholars. |