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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
This is not necessarily plausible.
1) The settlement amount was OK but not filthy rich big. Jimmy was getting a finder's fee - I don't remember if it was 10% or 20% of what the firm was getting - they told him upon terminating his employment. If the settlement amount was $45M or so (this was the ballpark discussed at the last meeting) and the legal contingency fee was say 25%, this means $11.25 to the two legal firms and either $1.1 or $2.2M to Jimmy. His house looked way richer than that.
Added: His take was $1.16M - this is from Wikipedia:
2) Settlement money was legally earned. So were his legal fees for defending clients. Why did FBI confiscate all of his possessions?
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you belong on /r/theydidthemath!
I do appreciate the effort. I do still think the sandpiper money was the genesis of his lifestyle which was then supplemented by meth money. When corporatejay posted that, he was responding to a post that claimed that Saul got rich off his regular clients. And while I know Saul worked tremendously hard, I can't imagine his stable of low level clients would have gotten him those possessions either.