[marshmallow]

From all that I've ever read about her, Mary Jo White is an upstanding, honest attorney who would not whitewash an investigation. You are suggesting that this is not true. Do you have any evidence of that?

Lighten up. It was a joke.

The article states that she was paid $770 dollars per hour for her services. It also states that she received a grand total of $2.2 million dollars for a four month investigation.

Another poster did the math which showed that to receive $2.2 million dollars, at $770 per hour, she would have to have worked 2,857 hours. In other words, more hours than there is in a four month period.

My quip was a light-hearted jest to explain this glaring discrepancy.

[SuziQ]

Another poster did the math which showed that to receive $2.2 million dollars, at $770 per hour, she would have to have worked 2,857 hours. In other words, more hours than there is in a four month period.

I'm sure she had a staff, so I'm sure the billable hours included ALL of those folks.

[dsc]

"From all that I've ever read about her, Mary Jo White is an upstanding, honest attorney"

I guess you guys missed the first round of discussion of White back when her selection was first announced.

From everything I've ever read about her, her ethics would gag a maggot.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Actually, there ARE enough hours in four months.

30(2) + 31(2) = 122 days. If one of the months was February, then the total is either 119 or 120. For the sake of discussion, we'll go with 119.

119 days converted into hours (times by 24) = 2856 hours. One less than 2857.

Now if we go with 122, we get 2,928 hours.

All in all, if we went with 122, this means (logically), that with all the working she did on the investigation, there'd be enough hours to earn the money she got...but this would mean she only got around 71 hours of sleep in four months.

If we went with 120 days in four months, she got 23 hours of sleep in four months.

If we went with 119 days...she got -1 hours of sleep.

I smell something rotten.