APNewsBreak: Age-bias claims cost Pennsylvania $225K
(World News USA)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Eighteen agents who investigate violent gun crimes for the Pennsylvania attorney general`s office each cashed $12,500 taxpayer-funded checks last year to settle claims they had been subject to harassment because of their age, The Associated Press has learned. The agency this week disclosed the payments to the current and former members of its Philadelphia Gun Violence Task Force. The agents had alleged that supervisors, including Jonathan Duecker, a top aide to then-Attorney General Kathleen Kane, repeatedly said they wanted to replace them with younger workers. Duecker had an `established animosity toward older...