A series of stories in Newsday uncovered the practice of private attorneys drawing fat pensions from school districts -- prompting fraud inquiriies by state and federal investigators.
The findings and probes are particularly explosive because they come at the intersection of several remarkable political trends: School spending as a major priority; fiscal trouble that puts added pressure on record-high property taxes, and new skepticism and reviews of how special taxing districts are really run.
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