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Past crooks keep pensions if guilty of corruption
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 01/28/07
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Elected officials and public workers convicted of corruption would lose pensions and face mandatory jail time under a bill the Senate passed. But hold your cheers.
All crooks are grandfathered in, so if they did the deed before the bill is signed into law, it doesn’t apply. And if they hold six public jobs and their conviction is on job No. 3, they can keep the pensions from the other five. That’s reform, New Jersey style.
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This should even be something that needs corrective legislation. As part of ANY plea agreement concerning political corruption or malfeasance, there should be a mandatory prison term, mandatory forfeiture of ALL pension benefits, and a substantial fine (Say 10 times the annual salary). Or they can go to trial and get stung the same!
Reinke Faces Life 