Holy shit, I'm more astounded by their fees. From the campaign home page:

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Here at <company name| google for 'fcc document contractor'> we charge 50 per hour for normal (non-rushed) requests with a minimum of a 1 hour charge. In addition to that there is a 10 dollar delivery fee for each E-Mail we send that has attachments (the file you requested) as well as 30 cents per page of said file.

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$10 per email?!? That's goddamn highway robbery! No wonder the guy needed $1000 to even find the info. That's crazy.

Fascinating piece of history though. Thanks for that!