An anonymous Denver city employee has filed an ethics complaint accusing Mayor Mike Johnston’s chief strategist, Jeff Dolan, of a potential conflict of interest in the city’s selection of a law firm to represent Denver in a lawsuit in which Dolan himself is a named defendant. This marks the second member of Johnston’s cabinet to face an ethics complaint over the law firm selection.
The Sept. 20 complaint, obtained by CBS Colorado through an open records request, asks the Denver Board of Ethics to investigate Dolan’s participation in selecting Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell to defend the city and individual defendants in a lawsuit brought by Everett Martinez, the former top lawyer at Denver International Airport…