Key senator ‘outraged’ by poor legal aid oversight

By John Solomon

Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., head of the appropriations subcommittee that funds the Legal Services Corp. (LSC), said she is outraged that t

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"… oversee its grants,” Mikulski wrote LSC Board Chairman John G. Levi and Acting President Victor M. Fortuno.Noting that the deep recession has left more needy Ameri …"

Federal legal aid vulnerable to fraud, questions of conflicts and intimidation

By John Solomon

U.S. Assistant Attorney General Tony West hailed Maryland’s Legal Aid Bureau with a rousing speech a few weeks ago that equated the nonprofi