Whether something is spread throughout law (or maybe just lawyering) is a question of both fact and perception. The facts may argue that it is limited in its pervasiveness; the perception is that it is near unto total.

For Trustees:
1. On the settlement of the account of any trustee under the will of a
person dying after August 31, 1956, or under a lifetime inter trust
established after August 31, 1956, the court must allow to him his
reasonable and necessary expenses actually paid by him and if he be an
attorney of this state and shall have rendered legal services in
connection with his official duties, such compensation for his legal
services as shall appear to the court to be just and reasonable and in
addition thereto it must allow to the trustee for his services as
trustee a commission from principal for paying out all sums of money
constituting principal at the rate of 1 per cent.
2. In addition to the commission allowed by subdivision 1 hereof a
trustee shall be entitled to annual commissions at the following rates:
(a) $10.50 per $1,000 or major fraction thereof on the first $400,000
of principal.
(b) $4.50 per $1,000 or major fraction thereof on the next $600,000 of
principal.
(c) $3.00 per $1,000 or major fraction thereof on all additional
principal.

The NY Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act commission schedule is very fair. It gives the Executor or Trustee just compensation without fleecing the estate. It should be adopted for the Ponzi scheme restitution trustees with a proviso that should the retitution poll be HUGE, the trustee should get paid comensurate with the work involved since I cannot see the non-clerical work for a $6,000,000,000 restitution pool being significantly greater than for a $6,000,000 restitution pool.