Posted on 06/14/2008 5:41:37 PM PDT by driftdiver
FORT WORTH, Texas — The cost of the April raid on a polygamist compound in West Texas is expected to top $14 million, about one-third of it in lawyers' fees, according to a published analysis of state records.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram published its findings Saturday after reviewing more than 400 pages of invoices, e-mails and other state records that it obtained under an open-records law request.
More invoices for overtime, travel and professional services are expected to boost the final tab, the records indicate.
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The winner and still champion...
One Guantanamo trial might cost that much.
End result - no evidence, no charges, traumatized children, broken constitution, and rich lawyers.
HORRAY for the Texas Public Records & Open Meetings Act. These laws and the fact that the morons in Austin only get a certain number of days every TWO years to steal everything they can make Texas a GREAT state!
“Overtime for state employees, including workers in the state’s protective services agencies, was about $1.7 million, and travel another $1.2 million during the first month after the raid.
“The Texas Department of Public Safety spent nearly $1.3 million, including $410,000 for overtime pay and about $82,000 for travel.”
The FLDS represented a cash cow for some . . . but just wait ‘til the FLDS lawsuits start flooding in, for example, false imprisonment of adult woman.
Idiots. Knee-jerk idiots.
I guess the Baptists got in on some of the state money for use of their buses to haul the FLDS children off at gunpoint:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN_QG1UqHLs
“I don’t want to go.”
So endeth the latest power grab by Child Protective Services, a boil on the butt of every state, otherwise known as the Bureau of Seizing Children On Flimsy Pretexts.
I would hope that, given the expenditure of over $14 million, the modus operandi of Child Protective Services would be reviewed. Apparently there is no oversight and too much power allowed to that organization for it to so easily mobilize and waste the resources of the State of Texas on a groundless charge.
CPS may be guilty of a hate crime! They had and still have the main stream media putting forth suggestions of sexual abuse of minors. Frankly the MSM feeding frenzy and warped and twisted reporting were disgusting during that incident, including Fox News.
http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/699869.html
Texans’ tab for YFZ ranch roundup tops $14 million
Hell, that's nothing.
Wait until this is all settled, it may be closer to $14 billion.
14 million........over one prank phone call!
Well it should cost a lot more to trample on the constitution. Now those, if there are any, sickos in this sect have a free ticket to do whatever they like because the Child Protection agency and the cops will be running scared.
Evidence, people, evidence! Get the damn evidence before you barge in like idiots and disrupt people’s lives.
Mel
“Frankly the MSM feeding frenzy and warped and twisted reporting were disgusting during that incident, including Fox News.”
The lies that were told. Absolutely amazing that the media seemingly got away with it. Whatever happened to truthful reporting? They didn’t even try to be fair.
There is no way that the bill is adding up.
The tools involved in this farce are all employed by the state and earning paychecks no matter what people are paying attention to, right?
I think that when you have to put 400 extra lawyers on an open expense account, the bills add up real quick.
‘The tools involved in this farce are all employed by the state and earning paychecks no matter what people are paying attention to, right?”
1/3 of it is lawyers, other is for rental of transportation, and other is overtime. many state workers are hourly and not salaried.
No kidding. No matter what, the lawyers will get paid.
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