Montgomery County commissioners have approved spending at least $165,000 since September 2015 for the services of attorney Michael W. Sandner, an attorney with Pickrel, Schaeffer & Ebeling, to defend Kumpf and county offices from actions arising from Richey’s death, according to county records.
The wrongful death suit, filed in February 2015 by Richey’s estate, alleges that Kumpf recklessly and/or willingly failed in his duty to enforce existing laws nor sought to obtain a dangerous dog designation that may have given Richey “significant additional protections.”
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Kumpf and the Animal Resource Center “willfully and with malicious purpose destroyed highly relevant public records with intent to disrupt plaintiff’s existing lawsuit against defendant Mark Kumpf,” a complaint updated by Richey’s estate and filed Aug. 1 reads.
A jury trial is scheduled to begin March 11.
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