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Cuomo: Lawyer pensions on school payrolls are "fraud"

New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Thursday night said his office believes that "multiple acts of fraud" were committed when Long Island school districts put private attorneys on their payrolls so that the attorneys could receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in state pensions.

In a statement, Cuomo spokesman John Milgrim said, "We do not believe this is merely a case of innocent...

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