Legal feels are racking up in Pennsylvania, according to Dennis Owens of the ABC News branch there. He filed a “request-to-know” with the Office of General Counsel and discovered that DLA Piper billed (and collected) more than $3 million in legal fees on a lottery privatization plan that didn’t go through, Drinker Biddle & Reath was awarded a contract for nearly $1 million in a Voter ID case and Cozen O’Connor received $631,128.98 for Jerry Sandusky scandal-related legal issues.
Some critics claim these outside contracts are an inside job, reports Owens, who quotes John Hanger, a former Democratic candidate for governor, with alleging the firms who receive the fees also have, not coincidentally, donated a lot of money to the governor. “Most of the time that’s an excuse to write nice checks to people who have given you campaign donations,” Hanger told Owens.
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