Questions are being raised in Bridgeport about a lucrative arrangement, disclosed in Sunday's Courant, under which the city has been obtaining legal services from Edwin J. Maley Jr., former state Senate Democrats' attorney and staff chief.
Lennie Grimaldi writes in his blog, "Only in Bridgeport," that two City Council members have fired off an e-mail to the council president questioning the city's arrangement with Maley, a friend of city Mayor Bill Finch from Finch's seven years as a Democratic member of the state Senate.
"Now I read in the Harford Courant that a former Senate colleague of the mayor [is] in line to receive close to a quarter of a million dollars of Bridgeport taxpayers hard-earned money in a contract that was never approved by the City Council," Grimaldi quoted the e-mail by council members Bob Walsh and Andre Baker as saying.