Baltimore Solicitor's Office hired lawyer with ties to neo-Nazi group; city fires lawyer afterwards

Baltimore's city government employed a lawyer with ties to a neo-Nazi group, and he was (until an hour or two ago) defending the city and the Baltimore Police Department against an African-American man's claims of wrongful conviction.

The plaintiff in that case, Sabein Burgess, spent 19 years in prison for murder before he was released in 2014. He is one of several people trying to win financial compensation for their wrongful convictions. City Paper wrote about him last year.

The lawyer, Glen K. Allen, has had a long career as a Maryland civil litigator. He has represented various clients ranging from the giant cigarette company Philip Morris, to the Afro-American newspaper. He recently retired from the giant firm DLA Piper and was hired as a contract attorney by the city for its Litigation and Claims Practice Group, the largest division within the Law Department.

Allen's financial support of the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi organization, and his work for The American Eagle Party, a fringe political party based in Tennessee, were brought to light yesterday by the non-profit Southern Poverty Law Center.

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