Monday, September 27, 2010

Dead and Still Getting Paid? Only in New York

Talk about getting paid for doing nothing!

NY Daily News
Even death didn't keep 14 city retirees from continuing to "collect" their pension checks through suspected fraud, City Controller John Liu reported Monday.

The cashers of the dead-retirees' checks made off with a total of $459,970, Liu said at a press conference with Department of Investigation Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn.

She'll now determine if criminal prosecution is warranted.

In the most-glaring of the 14 cases, someone cashed 38 pension check worth $139,818 after that pensioner died in 2007.....Read more
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