This award has to be for something against a large financial firm, a $279M award is based on a % of the damage in some way I believe. The person likely had to b

This award has to be for something against a large financial firm, a $279M award is based on a % of the damage in some way I believe. The person likely had to be intimately familiar with whatever was reported so they are highly likely to know the ins and outs of dealing with large numbers of digits of money and financial products/solutions beyond what retail/layperson would be aware of. I think they might have ideas on what they would want to do with the money and/or already be financially well off that buying more things doesn't really make large life impacts anymore (i.e well into 6 digit earnings territory). I think its likely if they wanted this to not be publicly known its entirely plausible they could do that. Unless it is a low paid janitorial engineer that was reading the trash.