NYC legal payments jump 38% in past year to whopping $794M
Apparently, you can fight City Hall.
Taxpayers shelled out a whopping $794.4 million in legal judgments and claims during the fiscal year ending June 30 – up 38% from the $575.9 million paid out during the previous 12 months, according to Mayor Adams’The Law Department said it’s unaware if the sum is a record high, but a review of previous management reports shows the latest tally exceeded any 12-month periodCity lawyers attribute the rise in payments in part to settling some costly liability cases in fiscal 2022.
“We live in the litigation capital of the world, and the breadth and scope of city operations is enormous,” said Law Department spokesman Nicholas Paolucci. “The city is always working to drive these costs down, and settlements usually cost taxpayers significantly less than taking cases to trial.” Alonzo Yanes is a 10th-grade student who was disfigured by a science experiment gone wrong at a prestigious Manhattan high school in 2014.
Samuel Brownridge, right, was awarded $13M after serving 25 years for a 1994 murder he didn’t commit. Evidence later showed dead felon Garfield Brown, left, was responsible.Some of the bigger payouts include $36 million to Alonzo Yanes, a former student at Beacon High School in Manhattan who was horribly scarred in a 2014 chemistry experiment gone awry.
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