Rittenhouse Attorney: 'Whatever Money He Did Get Is Gone'

Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted of all charges against him in 2021, more than a year after he fatally shot two Black Lives Matter protesters in Wisconsin and injured a third, is out of money. That's according to his own lawyer, Mark Richards, who spoke to Court TV about his now 20-year-old client's alleged financial state, per the Independent. "Everybody thinks that Kyle got so much money from this. Whatever money he did get is gone," Richards said. Richards added of Rittenhouse: "He's living, I don't want to say paycheck to paycheck, but he's living to support himself. ... [R]ight now he is working full-time, he is living a law-abiding life, and he is doing something that he enjoys."

Newsweek notes that Rittenhouse has claimed an empty wallet before, including on Tucker Carlson's former Fox News show, where Rittenhouse asked people to donate to his legal fund to help him fend off lawsuits connected to the Wisconsin shootings, which happened when Rittenhouse was 17. That fund has raised $250,000 so far, per the Independent. Rittenhouse also is penning a new memoir titled Acquitted, which, in his words, is a "story of survival, resilience, and justice." MSNBC notes that the book is "propped up by some of the GOP's most extreme money men," and that Rittenhouse "appears to be preparing for an eventual political debut." More on that here. (More Kyle Rittenhouse stories.)