The Associated Press reports that the nearly 4-year capital murder court-martial of then-US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan cost “nearly $5 million.”

The biggest pre-trial expense in Maj. Nidal Hasan’s trial was more than $1 million for transportation for witnesses, jurors and attorneys…About $90,000 was spent to house the witnesses…

The records also show that in the months before his trial, Army helicopters ferried Hasan 40 miles from the Bell County Jail to Fort Hood at a cost of more than $194,000 so he could work on his defense in his private office. More than $200,000 was spent on trailers, apparently including the one that housed the private office.

The expenses likely include the combat-like barriers that surrounded the facility holding the trial.

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