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    Question facing voters: Should corrupt public officials be stripped of pensions?

    Question facing voters: Should corrupt public officials be stripped of pensions?

    ALBANY – If there is a single item on the statewide ballot on Nov. 7 that is 100 percent certain to pass, it’s Proposal 2.After nearly a generation of relentless headlines about corruption cases in Albany, voters are being asked if they want to strip pensions from state and local government officials who commit felonies related to their work.
    The proposed change in the state constitution would end a loophole in state law that allows public officials who entered the state and local government pension system prior to November 2011 to retain their full monthly retirement checks even if convicted of a crime related to their job.
    The amendment proposal gives great leeway to judges to allow the pensions payments if an “undue hardship or other inequity” would be placed upon children or spouses by blocking pension payments.
    http://buffalonews.com/2017/10/23/vo...ime=1508765535


    “Pensions are not a reward for good or bad service. They are not like a gold watch. They are, in fact, the product of deferred salary. They are, in fact, personal property. And I think we go down a very bad road when we send the message that pensions can be taken away for behavior,’’ Sen. Diane Savino, a Staten Island Democrat, told her colleagues that day.
    I don't think we go down a good road if there was a penalty for bad behavior.

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    Tony Fracasso - Admin
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    Anyone have a clue how much "salary" needs to be deferred to be guaranteed this?

    Skelos has a pension of $96,000 annually and Silver is getting $79,000 a year. The amendment would not affect either, or the long line of people who have been bounced from office over recent years as a felony conviction automatically requires.

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