{"id":5055,"date":"2025-04-03T01:55:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T01:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/reasonableness-of-public-officers-legal-fees-at-heart-of-new-york-bill-aimed-at-reining-in-costs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T01:55:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T01:55:58","slug":"reasonableness-of-public-officers-legal-fees-at-heart-of-new-york-bill-aimed-at-reining-in-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/reasonableness-of-public-officers-legal-fees-at-heart-of-new-york-bill-aimed-at-reining-in-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Reasonableness&#8217; of Public Officers&#8217; Legal Fees at Heart of New York Bill Aimed at Reining In Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Two Democratic New York lawmakers are trying to drum up support to set limits on the state&#8217;s obligation to pay legal fees associated with public officers&#8217; defenses of civil claims, when the state Attorney General refuses to represent them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Assemblymember Grace Lee and state Senate Finance Committee Chair Liz Krueger, who both represent Manhattan, introduced the <a href=\"https:\/\/nyassembly.gov\/leg\/?bn=A05883&amp;term=2025\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">State Taxpayer Oversight and Protection Act<\/a>, motivated in part by the comptroller\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/newyorklawjournal\/2025\/03\/07\/ex-gov-cuomos-state-paid-legal-fees-soar-nearly-4-years-after-his-resignation\/\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">recent breakdown<\/a> of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s state-paid legal defenses and investigative reports by law firms that totaled about $60 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Democratic New York lawmakers are trying to drum up support to set limits on the state&#8217;s obligation to pay legal fees associated with public officers&#8217; defenses of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5342,307,4613,1529,5341,136,621,345,5340,5343,326],"class_list":["post-5055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-aimed","tag-bill","tag-costs","tag-fees","tag-heart","tag-legal","tag-officers","tag-public","tag-reasonableness","tag-reining","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}