In our small business, we have gradually moved from all-paper records to increasing use of electronic records. While we're not 100% there, I'm looking forward to the day when the business is a paperless operation. Until then, we produce, file and later archive paper records. Having been in business 8 years, my guess is we have about 15 banker boxes of paper records.
If we or someone else needed to investigate or find the answers to certain questions that those old and current records could answer, it would take a lot more than 270 man hours to do it (30 agents x 9 hours = 270 hours). And that assumes all 30 agents were actually reviewing the records. I presume some of those agents were providing security. Some were attorney's on hand to answer whatever questions came up. Some were videographers documenting the search. At lease one was a "safecracker." Some would have been supervisors.
It also assumes Trump's records were well organized, properly categorized and neatly filed. Information now surfacing suggests that is hardly the case. There is no way the search team could have gotten in and out as quickly as they did unless they (1) had an informant's help on the inside telling them exactly where to search at that massive estate, and (2) they took what the warrant allowed them to take to be immediately secured and reviewed later.
