Article: Westbrook officials spar over legal costs

First Selectman John Raffa and former First Selectman Tony Palermo, the Democratic member of the board, are scrapping over the town's escalating legal costs. "That's absolutely the most I've ever seen in the legal line item in this town," Palermo complained last week as the Board of Selectmen considered sending a request to the Board of Finance for an infusion of cash.

"An awful lot of stuff had to be cleaned up," Raffa retorted, in an obvious reference to Palermo's administration, which was swept from office in November.

With the Palermo administration's demise, longtime Town Counsel John Bennet was replaced. In addition, Raffa's administration hired a

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