On top of the nearly $20 million settlement, the Sun-Times on Sunday editorialized that "Burge has already cost the city more than $18 million in lawyers fees, investigations and other settlements... That $19.8 million is in addition to $27 million the city paid in the first nine months of this year in police misconduct judgments and settlements... Had they gone to trial, the men probably would have won and probably would have been awarded much more than $20 million -- perhaps as much as $195 million."