Baltimore set to pay $2M in legal fees over federal review of police department

Baltimore City faces a $2 million legal bill stemming from a federal civil rights investigation opened earlier this year after the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray in police custody. On Wednesday, Baltimore's Board of Estimates is expected to sign off on an appropriation to cover legal fees at an outside law firm hired to steer the city through the federal review. The budgetary move will then have to go before City Council. The $2 million represents both billed and anticipated legal costs related…