Summary
- The City of Boston is facing a legal battle to avoid paying almost $300,000 in legal fees for police officers acquitted in an overtime pay scam.
- Former Boston police officers Timothy Torigian and Robert Twitchell were accused of filing fraudulent overtime slips but were found not guilty.
- The City is required to pay the legal fees as per the collective bargaining agreement, totaling $279,899.
- After filing a lawsuit against the union to vacate the arbitrator’s award, the City argues that reimbursement grievance was filed too late.
