Karen Read admitted she owes her legal team $5 million since her trial for allegedly mowing down her Boston cop boyfriend and leaving him to die in a snow drift ended in a hung jury over the summer – and defended that her controversial courtroom grins as a sing that she has a “free conscience.”
Read, 44, opened up about her so-called “trial on a budget” for the Jan. 29, 2022, death of her then-boyfriend, John O’Keefe, in the second part of her Vanity Fair profile published Wednesday.
The former financial analyst paid her defense lawyers $1.2 million leading up to and throughout her nine-week court proceedings – including costs for transporting, housing, and feeding three lawyers, as well as hiring private investigators and experts, the magazine reported.
She hired star defense lawyer Alan Jackson — a former LA prosecutor who has defended the likes of Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey — to lead her team.