In a deposition taken in July, Bartov disclosed that he was being paid $1,350 an hour to work on the case. In court, he said he had now worked about 650 hours on the case, which would total $877,500.
Questioned by lawyers for New York’s attorney general, Bartov said the money had come from the Trump Organization and the former president’s political action committee, Save America.
Experts get paid for their contributions. This is an extremely high profile case that could have big ramifications for his career. Makes sense he would be paid a lot.
The issue is that he was making up a bunch of crazy stuff that doesn’t follow accepted practices at all, not that he was paid.
Making stuff up in court sounds like a bad idea
Also at issue: maga people who donate to Trump think experts are “dumb” so they might see this a huge waste of their money.
Fortunately, they will never hear this so their peace of mind is assured.
900k is more than a lot.
It’s for 650 hours which is like half a year of full time work. And it’s short term work which always pays more. It’s “more than a lot” to normal people but not really for specialized lawyers at the top of their field.
That’s much close to a quarter year of full time work, but I get your point
That’s $1.8M a year. If you worked for an average large US company, you’d have to be a senior executive to get that. Yes, it’s short term, but your executive comp would probably be at least half tied up in benefits you don’t have ready access to: stock options with multi-year vesting, bonuses tied to company performance, etc. Cash salary is more valuable, almost always, regardless of how HR tries to spin it.
That’s not just a lot of money, it’s a shit-ton of money.
First of all this is what he claimed. I doubt seriously he spent this much time, but for shits and giggles if he did that works out to be like $1,500 an hour. Nobody is worth that.