Report: Cost of raid on sect compound to top $14 million

[douglas9]

Source: Associated Press

FORT WORTH — 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 reviewed more than 400 pages of invoices, e-mails and other state records that it obtained under an open-records law request and published its findings Saturday.

More invoices for overtime, travel and professional services are expected to boost the final tab, the records indicate.

The biggest chunk of spending is expected to stem from court proceedings after the state seized about 460 children from the Yearning For Zion Ranch near Eldorado, which is owned by the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5837846.html

[fasttense]

1. Justice is not cheap.

Running a justice department is not a profit making business, unless you take bribes like republicans.

[High Plains]

2. And apparently, injustice is not cheap, either.

Pay to play, Texans.