Former Trump admin official Michael Caputo first to apply for $1.8 billion 'Anti-Weaponization Fund'

Michael Caputo, a former official of the first Trump administration, filed the first known claim under the Justice Department’s new $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund." 

Caputo seeks $2.7 million in restitution, according to a letter to the Justice Department that Caputo posted on X. 

He says he was targeted during "Crossfire Hurricane," an FBI investigation into allegations that the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. 

"The machinery of government was clearly politically weaponized against my family," Caputo states in the letter. 

Caputo was spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services during Donald Trump's first term.