Idaho Legal Bill For IEN Mess > $1M

The state has paid close to $1.1 million to the Boise law firm hired to defend the voided Idaho Education Network contract. The state’s Administration Department has paid Hawley Troxell $798,793.74, chief financial officer D. Keith Reynolds said in an email Tuesday. The Administration Department was in charge of overseeing the high school broadband contract — until the $60 million contract was thrown out in court . Attorney General Lawrence Wasden’s office paid Hawley Troxell $269,700 to take over the case as outside counsel. Those were early payments in the protracted legal battle, made before the Administration Department assumed all costs/ Kevin Richert , IDEDNEWS.org. More here.

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