Police escorts cost taxpayers $26,000
State police escorts for workers from private companies interested in leasing the Pennsylvania Turnpike have cost taxpayers about $26,000, according to turnpike Chief Executive Officer Joseph Brimmeier.
A $1 federal civil-rights verdict against a Seattle police officer who held a man at gunpoint during a 2007 off-duty traffic stop has cost taxpayers nearly $600,000 in legal fees, with maybe more to come, as City Attorney Pete Holmes asks the US Supreme Court to hear the case.