1.   About half the tie the police spend investigating crime, is taken up with form filling and bureaucracy.

2.   How much money has been spent investigating ethics charges against him?

3.   In the months that his Governmental Affairs Committee has spent investigating campaign finance practices, Thompson has also sought to have it two ways.

4.   It is not known how much the IRS has spent investigating Scientology or defending itself against the hundreds of lawsuits filed by the church and its members.

5.   The donor approached the Lawyers Committee on Thursday, and the committee spent Saturday investigating him and his ability to pay for the annuity.

6.   The donor approached the Lawyers Committee on Thursday, and the committee spent Friday investigating him and his ability to pay for the annuity.

7.   Enquirer editor David Perel refused to say how he got the pictures or whether he paid for them, though he said money was spent investigating the case.

8.   He laughs recalling the effort, time and money spent to investigate his own friend for a client.