Washington (CNN) A legal fund set up to help current and former Trump campaign and administration officials pay legal bills stemming from investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign has begun making payments to law firms, according to an Internal Revenue Service filing.

But the legal fund is declining to identify individuals who are benefiting from it, which could include current government officials. The fund is largely powered by five- and six-figure donations from GOP megadonors with ties to President Donald Trump.

Patriot Legal Expense Fund Trust doled out $122,529 to two law firms, according to the IRS filing, including an $8,438 payment to the firm representing Keith Schiller , the President's former longtime bodyguard and aide. The payments are listed only as "legal consulting" on the IRS form. The fund's spokesman declined to comment on the legal fund's payments.

That law firm, Schertler & Onorato LLP, also represents Sam Patten, a lobbyist who pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered foreign lobbyist for illegally obtaining $50,000 in tickets to Trump's inauguration on behalf of a Ukrainian oligarch.

Schiller and Patten's attorneys did not respond to requests for comment.

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