{"id":13515,"date":"2026-11-10T06:41:31","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T11:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=13515"},"modified":"2026-11-10T06:41:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T11:41:33","slug":"legal-bill-for-over-125000-with-29935-redacted-would-you-pay-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=13515","title":{"rendered":"Legal Bill for over $125,000 with $29,935 Redacted? Would you Pay it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">11\/9\/2022 &#8211; A massive <strong>legal invoice<\/strong> exceeding $125,000. Councilor Dan Bouchard during public comment session strongly objects to settling the debt because nearly $30,000 of the charges have been heavily <strong>redacted<\/strong>. Concerns are raised regarding <strong>transparency<\/strong>, particularly since an individual named Chris authorized the secrecy while simultaneously releasing an unredacted report containing names. Furthermore, Bouchard questions the <strong>suspicious timing<\/strong> of the bill&#8217;s arrival immediately following a recent election. Consequently, Bouchard demands a fully <strong>itemized account<\/strong> before approving any taxpayer funds for the disputed legal services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Legal Bill for over $125,000 with $29,935 Redacted? Would you Pay it?\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bxyaLbrojfg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11\/9\/2022 &#8211; A massive legal invoice exceeding $125,000. Councilor Dan Bouchard during public comment session strongly objects to settling the debt because nearly $30,000 of the charges have been heavily redacted. Concerns are raised regarding transparency, particularly since an individual named Chris authorized the secrecy while simultaneously releasing an unredacted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13517,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13515\/revisions\/13517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}