Michigan Is Paying Rick Snyder's Lawyers Twice the Average Billing Rate for the State
LatestThe Flint water crisis just gets worse and worse. This week, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is using taxpayer money to pay lawyers nearly twice his state’s average to save his ass. This is the same man who sacrificed a whole city’s well-being and tried to delay installing new pipes in Flint to due to cost concerns. Cool.
Snyder, according to Michigan Live, has secured $1.2 million in legal services, and is paying one attorney specifically $540 per hour to process “massive amounts of emails and documents, including those being released voluntarily, Freedom of Information Act requests and lawsuit discovery requests.”
A 2014 study of local attorney fees by the Michigan State Bar found that the local average billing rate was $245. But, you know, Snyder’s in deep and needs to protect himself, says his spokesman Ari Adler, in so many words.