Kevin Federline's lawyer - Mark Vincent Kaplan is making excuses for the failed rappers expenses, PEOPLE reports.

"He's totally getting a bad rap here." "It seems like an unnecessary attempt to knock him when there's really no basis to do that."

Kevin Federline totally getting a bad rap over expenses?

Kaplan on the $2,000 Scores strip club tip. "That was for a group of people for a friend's bachelor party," says Kaplan, who adds that it wasn't a tip: "That's just how the club categorized it."

"Don't focus on whether he spent too much money going on a vacation or going to a restaurant," says Kaplan. "Focus – as the court does – on was he reasonable having to incur these [court] fees? The answer is a resounding yes." Kaplan says that the legal fees were "built up quite frankly by the conduct of [Spears]" during some of her court-delaying, widely-publicized antics.

"I don't think the court should be distracted by the fact that he went to Las Vegas and spent $1,000 or $5,000,” says Kaplan. "It's not relevant."