Only Terri's therapy and care award was used to kill Terri. We should distinguish here because Michael himself was awarded $600,000 for "loss of consortium." Not that he lost any consortium, mind. (Consortium is something wives can do for husbands, but you can also find it on the street, which is how Michael started making babies out of wedlock with Jodi Centonze.) The lawyers and taxman took a big piece of that award, but Michael received over $300,000 as his rake-off from Terri's terrible disability, and celebrated by buying a new gold Acura the very day he got the check! Yee-haw! Her injuries got me a sports car!! Michael is a sweet, sentimental fool like that.
Not one penny of HIS money was ever spent for the legal case to kill Terri. No, sir! Michael was very fussy to use only Terri's therapy money to kill her. (That's "fraud on the court," incidentally.)
By the way, Michael was just as sentimental the day he finally killed her. Three hours -- hours! -- after Terri was safely dead, he and death lawyer Debbie Bushnell raced to court to file a claim for her estate.
It can't be "fraud on the court" when the judge approves the expenditure. In all guardianship cases, the attorneys fees are paid out of the guardian's estate,if such exists. This is what was done in this case and no party complained of the payments. In fact, the Schindler's attorneys also petitioned the court for payment from Terri's estate. Was this "fraud on the court." BTW, their request for payment from the estate was turned down by the judge because of their meritless claim, which was upheld by the appellate court. It sounds like more sour grapes.
Didn't she work for the firm that was handling his case too?