'You have everything from teachers who molested students to politicians who accepted bribes to police and corrections officers who assaulted people in their custody,' reporter Riley Yates says about NJ officials still receiving pension payments.
A recent report identified nearly 100 people, convicted of crimes related to their public official jobs, who are still getting pension payments from New Jersey.A recent report identified nearly 100 people, convicted of crimes related to their public official jobs, who are still getting pension payments from New Jersey.
Riley Yates, who wrote the NJAM report, joined WNYC's Tiffany Hansen to discuss the laws and loopholes that allow so many disgraced public officials to continue collecting payments. The transcript, published below, has been lightly edited for clarity. to. Or someone who worked in the water department who was supposed to be testing for bacteria and falsified those tests.It is, and it isn't. This is a system that covers 800,000 retirees, either current employees or retired employees, so it's a small number [proportionately]. But that also might speak to the ability to address that in sort of surgical reforms.
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