John Roberts Followed The Rules. That’s The Scandal.
Alexander Muse – Suppose a citizen, curious about the finances of the most powerful judge in America, had pulled Chief Justice John Roberts’s annual disclosure form at any point between 2007 and 2014. Here is the sum of what she would have learned about his wife’s career.
Jane Roberts was employed by Major, Lindsey & Africa, described as attorney search consultants, and her income was of the type called salary. Our citizen would form a perfectly reasonable picture from those words, a respectable professional job in legal recruiting, the sort that pays perhaps $150,000 or $250,000 a year. She would close the file and think no more about it.
The Eight-Figure Reality Behind One Word
The picture would be wrong by an order of magnitude. Over those 8 years Mrs. Roberts collected $10,323,842.70 in commissions on $13.3 million in revenue attributed to her, figures drawn from her own firm’s internal spreadsheets, and by one sworn account she was the highest earning recruiter at the entire company by a wide margin. Continue reading
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