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NY School Attorney Investigation Continues to Expand

By Justin Bathon

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The investigation of school attorneys in New York continues to expand. The list of districts required to submit information on how their school attorneys were compensated has now expanded to Westchester County as well, brining the total number of districts required to report information on school attorneys to 172, reports Newsday (via the ABA Journal's Martha Neil). Also, a federal investigation is ongoing into the payment practices and since my last post on this issue another NY school attorney has been brought into the investigation. Mark Walsh at the School Law Blog has also picked up on the story.

We'll see where this all ends (and it is not ending soon), but right now I am afraid the quotes are just too juicy to pass up. Consider this statement by Mr. Cuomo's spokesman:

"In our experience, inappropriate practices that exploit the system are not limited to a single jurisdiction. They tend to spread throughout the state. We are committed to uncovering the full scope of these problems and developing a solution that ends them."

I warned (here and here) that this was a juicy political nugget that could be exploited by politicans looking to make some headlines. The school attorneys that did wrong should be caught and punished, but look for more and more statements to come from the N.Y. Attorney General's office.

Full post as published by Edjurist on March 03, 2008 (boomark / email).