The decade-old claims stem from misconduct by off-duty police officers working security the night the bar’s manager pushed 28-year-old William Sager down a set of stairs. The payouts push the city’s annual budget line for settlements into deficit.
Defense attorney Joel Daniels and Jeffrey Basil. Photo courtesy of WKBW 7 News.
It’s been more than 11 years since Jeffrey Basil, bar manager of the now-defunct Molly’s Pub on Main Street, pushed William Sager down a flight of stairs, then enlisted off-duty Buffalo police officers working security for the bar to try to cover up what he’d done.
Sager, 28, suffered a traumatic brain injury and died on July 31, 2014, after two-and-a-half months in a coma. Basil was sentenced to 18 years in prison for manslaughter in 2015…