@mmasnick I don’t think I’ve ever seen sanctions that high.

@Popehat @mmasnick

What gets me is that most of the top-flight attorneys on the defense willingly took hourly cuts from 28% to *66%*, I assume to preclude Trump and Habba from griping overmuch about pay scales. (There was still a token objection over block billing.)

They could have probably justifiably bumped that up to a million and a half, and after the shenanigans displayed throughout, it's not hard to imagine Middlebrooks handing it to them.