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Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 June 2008 09:41 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 18 June 2008 09:41
From TimesUnion.com:
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo will accept a $500,000 settlement from Girvin and Ferlazzo, an Albany law firm whose partners scored lucrative state pension credits by improperly getting listed as public school employees, an official with familiar with the agreement said today.
Girvin & Ferlazzo will not only pay the penalty but will have to discontinue any attempts to have its lawyers classified as public employees in the future, said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Any billings the firm does as consultants to public employers will first have to be reviewed by the Attorney General’s office for at least three years under the settlement, according to the official.
The firm has worked directly for 17 districts in Hamilton, Fulton and Montgomery counties as legal consultants. But it had partners placed on the payroll of the regional Board of Cooperative Educational Services to collect pension credits.
The manner in which it decided which partners to include on the BOCES payroll was questionable, according to the official, because the lawyers involved may or may not have actually been engaged in work for the BOCES schools. As part of the settlement, the firm’s officials will assist in any criminal investigations involving former partners.