Court Orders Kennedy Center to Pay Drummer $250,000 In Fees

Add a quarter million dollars to the amount the Trump regime at the Kennedy Center has cost it. A Washington, D.C. judge on Tuesday ordered The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts to pay $252,479.70 in legal costs to jazz drummer Chuck Redd following a losing effort at a lawsuit against the musician. Judge Tanya Jones Bosier said in the order that the Kennedy Center owed Redd for the legal fees he piled up while defending himself against the action and that the more than a quarter-million-dollar judgment was a “good faith evaluation.” The fees must be paid within 45 days. “The Trump-controlled Kennedy Center tried to silence opposition to its illegal name change by filing a meritless lawsuit against jazz musician Chuck Redd,” Lisa J. Banks, an attorney for Redd, said in a statement. “Now the court has ordered the Kennedy Center to pay Mr. Redd’s legal fees, which is appropriate as no citizen should have to spend time and money fending off baseless and politically motivated lawsuits filed by the Trump Administration.” In December, Trump allies installed in leadership at the center changed its name to The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performi...