PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Last week, Gov. Corbett came under fire for spending nearly $3.5 million on law firms as part of his quest to privatize the Pennsylvania Lottery.
That was only one of a handful of high-profile cases pursued by the administration that have ended up costing millions of dollars in legal bills. The others include defending a lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’s oft-criticized voter ID requirement, which the governor signed into law last year; and Corbett’s unsuccessful challenge to the NCAA’s sanctions against Pennsylvania State University for its handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal.
In all, records show, the administration has spent at least $6.4 million since 2012 on outside law firms, either defending or pushing its agenda in those and three other controversial matters… (more)
