THE STATE attorney general’s office has detected a pattern in which the Brooklyn surrogate increased the fees paid to counsel for the Brooklyn public administrator in closing out the estates of people who die without wills.
William Josephson, chief of the attorney general’s charities bureau, said that with the increase, the total fees paid to the counsel, Louis R. Rosenthal, comes to 8 percent of the estates, a figure that is 2 percent higher than counsel for public administrators are generally paid in other boroughs.
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