Meanwhile, the self-described populist activist Jim Hightower wrote, "Despite their historically disastrous year in 2008, Wall Street investment bankers awarded themselves a total of $18.4 billion in bonuses the sixth-largest payout on record!" Viewing outrage as an adequate substitute for knowledge, reporters and politicians alternated between being ignorantly angry and angrily ignorant.
The previous record payout in a privacy-related civil action involved Max Mosley in 2008.
These numbers do not include the record payout for the year 2000.
The figure, more than double the record payout of that type, covers expenses only through Aug. 1.
Such was the optimism heading into the 2010 World Cup that British bookmakers predicted a record payout if Capello's men triumphed in South Africa.
Indeed, when the Formula One boss Max Mosely later won a £60,000 settlement ($96,000) in a privacy case, it was considered a record payout in such cases.
It said that it had earmarked $5.35 billion in compensation and benefits, an increase of 84percentt from the year earlier period, putting it on course for a record payout to its executives by the end of 2009.
In 1996, when he was twenty-five, Khan won what was then a record payout of two hundred and twenty thousand pounds from the Metropolitan Police for the wrongful arrest and assault of a Chinese hairdresser.
Bookies fear a record payout should Hooper's film capitalise on its nominations, with current odds standing at 7/4 for it to win best film and 1/20 for Firth to win the best actor Oscar.
The Bell settlement, for the two children he had with his fiancée, Nicole Paultre Bell, came six weeks after the city agreed to a record payout of $9.9 million to Barry Gibbs, who had been released after almost two decades in prison because of evidence that he had been framed by a corrupt police detective.
