Cal Skinner reported yesterday on testimony in the Lou Bianchi trial and included remarks about an exchange between Bianchi's defense attorney Terry Ekl and Quest International computer forensics expert Dan Jerger. On http://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/ Cal wrote:
"At $250 an hour, Ekl calculated he (Jerger) had charged the county $86,250.
"That’s when he (Jerger) revealed the total Quest bill as $225,000."
Billings from Quest International from the Special Prosecutors and already approved by Judge Gordon Graham total "only" $127,668. If Jerger is correct (and why wouldn't he be?), then there is another $98,000 in billings coming from Quest.
Not counting legal fees for December 2010 and January and February 2011, the bill for the Bianchi witch hunt will stand at over $409,000. Now add in the legal fees and expenses for March 2011 - right now, for the trial.
And then for the appeal that will surely follow Judge Joseph McGrath's decision, no matter which way he decides.
How much mud in on the faces of the County Board for estimating that $100,000 would suffice? Why should they sweat the miscalculation, though? It's not their money; they just open the cash register drawer.
You never know who is interested…
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