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School doubled lawyer's salary, boosting pension

Hewlett-Woodmere school officials more than doubled the salary of a private attorney on its payroll in his last two years at the district -- substantially boosting his New York State pension -- while paying his law firm more than $400,000 in additional fees during those same years, district records show.

The attorney, Jerome Ehrlich, was a partner in the Garden City law firm of Ehrlich, Frazer...

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