The private jet that crashed during takeoff from Bangor International Airport in Maine on Sunday evening is registered to prominent anti-ICE lawyers who were spending tens of millions of dollars to elect Democrats in the upcoming Texas primaries.
The crash resulted in seven fatalities and one serious injury.
The jet was registered to Arnold & Itkin Trial Lawyers, known for its aggressive litigation and leftist political activism, including substantial financial support for Democrat causes, particularly those opposing strict immigration enforcement and Republican policies in Texas.
The victims’ names have not been released at this time, but early reports indicate that people associated with the firm were on board.
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On January 25, a Bombardier Challenger 650 private jet carrying eight people crashed during takeoff at Bangor International Airport in Maine around 7:45 p.m. local time.
The plane was registered to an LLC in Houston and linked to a local law… pic.twitter.com/bytQrqIrVf
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The firm, along with another Houston-based practice, Abraham Watkins, donated $300,000 to the political action committee First Tuesday to boost Democrat candidates in the 2024 elections.
A private jet belonging to prominent anti-ICE / anti-Trump lawyers crashed in Maine.
Eight passengers are dead.
The lawyers have combined to spend tens of millions of dollars fighting Republicans in Texas.
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The Texas Voice previously reported:
Two liberal personal injury law firms that have combined to spend over $11 million thus far in the 2026 election cycle – including spending to influence Texas Republican Primary elections – have boasted about their work representing illegal immigrants on their firm websites.
On his website, Kurt Arnold of the Arnold & Itkin law firm brags about obtaining the “largest settlement for an undocumented worker in United States history.”
Arnold and his law partner, Jason Itkin, formed the Texans for Truth and Liberty PAC last year with an initial contribution of $10 million from their law firm. Texans for Truth and Liberty has already spent nearly $1 million, with the bulk of that spending going towards Republican Primary races.
The Truth and Liberty PAC has been funded by Soros-linked interests and has focused on challenging Republican incumbents in tort reform battles.
During the crash, air traffic control can be heard saying, “Aircraft upside down. We have a passenger aircraft upside down,” approximately 45 seconds after the plane took off, according to a PBS report.
LISTEN: 911 dispatch call of private plane crash at Bangor international airport in Maine.
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First responders were at the scene less than a minute after the air traffic controller’s message.
UPDATE: Lawyer Tara Arnold, 46, wife of personal injury attorney Kurt Arnold, and several of her friends were among those killed on the flight, which was reportedly en route for a girls’ trip to Paris.
Arnold leaves behind two young children.
Top lawyer, 46, who is married to one of Texas’s most powerful attorneys was one of six killed in private jet crash while taking ‘girls’ trip’ to Paris
The wife of a prominent lawyer was one of six killed in a horror private jet crash on a snowy airport runway.
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The Daily Mail reports:
Tara and her friends flew in from Houston on Sunday, landing at 6.09pm, for refueling and ice removal before heading across the Atlantic Ocean.
She earned her law degree from Tulane University in Louisiana, near the small town in Sabine Parish where she grew up.
Inspired by her mother, a personal injury attorney for victims of crime, she wrote on her company profile that she wanted to be a lawyer from a young age.
‘When someone hires a lawyer to pursue a claim or file a lawsuit, it represents years of a person’s life, their family’s future, and the power to make a living for the rest of his or her life. It’s my business to protect those things,’ she wrote.
Tara graduated magna cum laude and began her career at the Houston office of a large New York City law firm, specializing in mergers and acquisitions.
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While in Houston she met Kurt, and joined his firm.
