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Law Firm Informant Points Finger at Lawyer for Other Lawyers in Pension Cases

Posted Nov 12, 2009, 06:56 pm CST
By Martha Neil

A lawyer representing other lawyers in an ongoing probe of New York pensions being paid to attorneys who alleged did government legal work as private practitioners while being reported as state employees may himself have a dubious claim to his more than $120,000-a-year pension.

Citing claims by an unidentified confidential informant, a state appeals court ruled today that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo does have the power to subpoena information about the government employment of James Roemer Jr. and one of his clients, John Hogan, according to Newsday (sub. req.).

The informant contends that at least some of the government work for which Roemer was paid was actually performed by other attorneys at his law firm. And,… Continue reading...



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