Cuomo: School Attorneys Bilking Public
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- April
- 10
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced this morning that he has issued subpoenas to more than 90 attorneys who represent school districts across the state because he claims many of them are receiving undeserved perks, such as state pensions and health benefits.
Cuomo said the probe includes more than 180 school districts, including 150 upstate, in more than 20 counties. He said the highest number of offenders appear to be in Albany, Broome, Delaware, Erie, Madison and Monroe counties.
“It’s a great scam that has gone on for many, many years,” Cuomo said at a news conference in Albany.
Cuomo alleged that lawyers and school districts have been bilking the state for millions of dollars each year by putting part-time attorneys who advise school districts on the districts’ payrolls, allowing them to receive benefits for which they should not be entitled.
Yet Cuomo would not offer specific school districts where the practices may have occurred or names of attorneys potentially involved. He also did not release all the counties in which he is conducting the investigation.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
