Last fall when Kevin Poruban filed an ethics complaint against fellow council member Nick Kydes, I suspect that few if any thought about the ramifications of costs of the complaint. Unlike an earlier ethics complaint, this time it wasn’t a citizen filing the complaint against an official, it was an official filing against another official.
Kydes, quickly sought legal advice, and at the hearing showed up with a lawyer and a stenographer. Poruban showed up without legal representation. The meeting lasted a a few hours. Who knows what prep time Kydes undertook, but the time between the filing of the complaint and the hearing certainly suggests minimal time. Which is why on the surface a $14k bill seems outrageous.
