https://buffalonews.com/2016/10/02/taxpayers-foot-the-645341-bill-for-browns-pay-to-play-defense/

When Mayor Byron W. Brown found himself facing allegations of a pay-to-play scheme at City Hall, he turned to one of Buffalo’s most respected defense lawyers.
Six years later, the high-profile lawsuit against the mayor and city drags on, but Terrence M. Connors is off the case, replaced by two other well-known attorneys.
Meanwhile, the taxpayer-funded bill for Brown’s legal defense mounts.
At last count, the city had paid Connors’ $645,341, most of it over the past three years.