The Baltimore County Council is set tonight to authorize $200,000 more in legal fees – on top of $350,000 already allocated – to handle a Public Information Act lawsuit seeking information about a secret payment made by the Johnny Olszewski administration to a retired firefighter.
The payments going to the Baker Donelson law firm are listed on page 50 of the council’s agenda as an amendment to “complex and time-intensive litigation” with little additional explanation.
Last week the unlikely source of the lawsuit, a former high-ranking county official, called out the legal fees as part of a “cover up” of allegedly unlawful acts that he had uncovered through his PIA lawsuit.
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