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Originally Posted by finnbow
These lawyers and their staffs bill at many hundreds of dollars per hour. This is in addition to the salaries being earned by the career prosecutor and his staff. As noted above, the outside counsel for the defense of the Virginia governor (because his AG was implicated in the same mess) cost an additional $1million.
And yes it would require additional legislation and funding. How many states do you know looking for additional places to spend their scarce resources? And how many politicians do you know who will run (and win) on a platform to spend untold millions on routine special prosecutors?
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So far the bill for the Police OT and the National Guard is slightly under $2.7 million dollars.
There were two law firms that offered to provide the special prosecutor and all the support staff for free for the entirety of the grand jury and the jury trial. McCulloch turned them down.
McCulloch ran and won his race as DA while spending close to 20% of his total budget on routine contract prosecutors.
Eh, what were your objections again to a SP in St. Louis?