She was a Clinton appointee to the federal bench in New York.
Via Politico:
A former federal judge assigned to weed through records seized last month from President Donald Trump’s personal attorney has billed more than $47,000 for her first week on the job.
Barbara Jones, a former U.S. District Court judge in Manhattan, submitted an invoice on Tuesday for work she performed beginning a couple of days before she was formally announced last month as a court-appointed special master to review materials the FBI seized from the home, office and hotel room of Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, pursuant to search warrants.
Jones’ invoice tallies 68 hours of work during the last week of April at roughly $700 an hour. The invoice appears to include at least two other attorneys from her firm, Bracewell.
U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood announced Jones’ appointment on April 26. Wood assigned Jones to oversee the review process after lawyers for Cohen, Trump and the Trump Organization went to court to demand a role in ensuring that legally privileged attorney-client communications were not turned over to prosecutors examining Cohen’s business affairs. The investigation encompasses potential fraud charges, as well as Cohen’s role in arranging a $130,000 pre-election payment to the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in an apparent bid to get her to remain silent about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier.
Under an agreement reached earlier this month, Cohen, Trump and the Trump Organization are paying half of Jones’ fees and the government is picking up the other half. Jones said no one objected to her first bill.