Boston mayor seeks $15M for lab scandal fallout

Published October 16, 2012 11:44am ET



BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s mayor is seeking $15 million from the state of Massachusetts to deal with the release of potentially hundreds of prisoners due to the state lab scandal.

Mayor Thomas Menino had already announced plans for handling the inmates’ release, but hadn’t put a dollar figure on the request until a letter Monday.

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