By Sandra Tan
News Staff Reporter
The way Erie County Comptroller Kevin Hardwick sees it, the Sheriff's Office is paying big bucks to some of its highest-paid appointees for security work at Bills games and using flawed accounting for security associated with Sabres games and other events held at KeyBank Center. He wants to know why.
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