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		freehunter on Nov 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Doesn’t Want to Pay the Feds’ E-Book Lawyer ... That's exactly the differentiation I tried to raise in my point. Is this a fine paid to the government who then pays the lawyer some percentage, or is all of this money going to the lawyer? One would be acceptable, the other would be less so.

judk on Dec 1, 2013 [–]

From what I read, it is the legal fees from "privatized" complance monitoring.

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