Taxpayers Covering The Cost Of Hickenlooper’s Attorney In Ethics Case

Justin Wingerter, Denver Post: Politics
Wed, 11/20/2019 - 9:03am

John Hickenlooper’s attorney has been paid $43,390 — at a rate of $525 per hour — in taxpayer money to defend him before the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission as part of an arrangement that dates back to the former governor’s time in office and includes hidden payments from a federal fund. Under that arrangement, the attorney, Mark Grueskin, a high-powered private lawyer in Denver, was appointed “special assistant attorney general” last October, when Hickenlooper first faced an ethics complaint into private flights that critics say violated a government gift ban. On Oct.

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