In a Greta/Shep conversation yesterday, she expressed the opinion that the people putting up money now may have an expectation of getting paid down the road, with money from selling the story, etc. And then there is publicity, national publicity. According to LP, he is the individual paying the bond premium to his nephew, the bondsman, and thus to the local guy. He doesn't expect to lose it from her fleeing, because he's watching her. Baez?? Cindy told us on TV not to worry about how he's getting paid. He can donate his time for free, work pro bono, but might have some arrangement to get expenses paid now, or later. They may later ask the state to pay if more serious charges are filed, and they should need experts, etc. Someone with experience in this kind of situation, like maybe a spokesperson, may have given advice or helped engineer what's going on. Who knows? I don't think any of them have zero expectation of ever recovering what they've spent.