For all the benefits that come from being an ally or employee of Donald Trump—the finest fast-food money can buy, free copies of the fake Time magazine with his face on it, getting to explain why that tweet wasn’t really sexist/racist/bats--t crazy—there are a few downsides. And in the year of our lord 2018, one of the most significant downsides happens to be truly astronomical legal fees. In the midst of ongoing probes into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election, Trump allies who’ve been caught up in the investigation’s web have been forced to pony up. While ex-campaign aide Rick Gates’s situation is so dire that G.O.P. lobbyists have taken to holding fund-raisers for the guy, and former longtime aide-slash-surrogate-daughter Hope Hicks is said to have racked up “substantial legal fees,” even people just outside the president’s inner circle, who are merely witnesses as opposed to targets, are reportedly suffering major financial consequences as a result of their association with Trump.

In an interview with CNBC Wednesday, former campaign adviser Michael Caputo said he has paid thousands thus far simply for serving as a witness in the House Intelligence Committee’s probe. “If you don’t go into a congressional hearing thoroughly prepared, then you should bring a toothbrush, because you’re going to be there a while,” he warned. Most of his tab, which has clocked in at about $25,000 per hearing, has gone toward procuring the documents requested by investigators. “If I have 800 e-mails where I mention Trump and Russia in the same e-mail, figuring out which ones are of interest to an investigator is above my pay grade,” Caputo said, adding that he recently started a crowdfunding page to foot the bill. Estimating—conservatively—that when all is said and done his legal fees will hit $125,000, Caputo said that if he goes before the grand jury as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, “it’ll be far more.” (In addition to being screwed on legal fees, Caputo, who runs a public-relations firm, says the investigation has had “a dramatic effect” on his business, as clients don’t want to come within a 200-foot radius of the Russia probe.)

Unsurprisingly, when it comes to longtime Trump surrogate and confidant Roger Stone, the bills are higher by a factor of five. Stone, who recently told The New York Times that Trump has “gone out of his way” to treat “fixer“ Michael Cohen “like garbage,” estimated to CNBC in an e-mail that his fees, which he claims currently add up to more than half a million dollars, will likely double in light of the Democratic National Committee lawsuit filed last week. (Stone described the lawsuit as “bogus” and has claimed he’ll use the suit to his benefit to get undisclosed records on Democrats.)

Also helping lawyers hit those billable hours? Trump’s re-election campaign, which Fortune reported earlier this month spent more than $834,000 on legal fees during the first quarter, or 20 percent of its disbursements, including a nearly six-figure payment to a law firm defending the president of the United States from a lawsuit filed by a porn star. Luckily for Team Trump, should the legal fees continue to skyrocket—and odds are they will!—the campaign raised $10.1 million during the first three months of the year, and had $28.3 million in cash on hand at the end of March: plenty of money to defend the president against both collusion allegations and the cornucopia of women who claim he had affairs with them, then tried to keep them quiet.