A dozen of the 19 legal and accounting teams representing or being paid by Enron in the first three months after it filed for bankruptcy Dec. 2 have charged the company more than $28 million in fees.

At that rate, an independent examiner needs to be appointed to scour the bills to ensure money that could repay creditors isn’t wasted on unnecessary costs, Texas Deputy Attorney General Jeff Boyd said.

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