The mayor says Federal and other Law Enforcement Agencies have helped shoulder the cost. He also mentions that private donors are willing to pay for the flight costs for JP and his attorney to talk to the FBI.
Winder also talked about the cost of the investigation — between $500,000 and $750,000 spent so far.
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=17441820
Ironically, Chief Buzz Nielson also talked about the costs of the investigation:
Nielsen roughly estimated the department has spent about $500,000 on the case. But through donations and other means — in addition to the tremendous cooperation from law enforcement agencies both in Utah and Washington — he said it has all worked out.
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=17426938
I am concerned about the donations. Sorry, but my hinky meter has gone off. I hope I'm wrong, but I was already in disbelief that Steven Powell went this long without his own full interview, search, etc. back in Jan 2010 when Sandy gave full information to LE about his obsession with Susan. She then contacted them again in Oct 2010 to let them know how dumb Steve thought they were because they didn't search his locked closet with Susan's underwear and diaries in them. This was met with a yawn by LE.
They said today they have only gone through 5% of the stuff they got from Powell's house on August 25, 2011. That was 31 days ago. Are you kidding me?
Hearing this 3 month number for how long it will take is outrageous. This is the shallow grave incident all over again. I feel like I'm dealing with third world LE when it comes to these time-tables.
We were all trying to guess the head games they were playing with Powell by inviting the media to Ely, why the chief announced that human remains had been found, why it took so long to tell us there was no body - were they shaking the trees for more donations with these actions?
What is going on here? Where was this 750,000 dollars spent? How are these donations accounted for? Is there transparency? Why did they claim there was a gag order yet ABC discovered it to be bogus and not true? Is somebody getting paid who has an interest in keeping this case afloat?
MOO.