SACRAMENTO, Calif. —

California Attorney General Rob Bonta's campaign on Tuesday clarified that the nearly half a million dollars it spent on legal services and fees were for Bonta to have legal counsel as authorities asked him for information during a federal bribery investigation.

Campaign finance records show the $468,000 his 2026 reelection campaign paid to the law firm Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati represents a historic amount of money spent on legal help by any candidate running for statewide office in California.

When KCRA 3 first reported the expense on Monday , Bonta's campaign claimed the money was meant to "help" federal investigators in their probe that resulted in the indictment of the ex-mayor of Oakland and the Duong family, who were Bonta's donors.

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