Privatize Privatize Privatize
Ground glass in the retirement cake?
Seems a conniving former cop in a NJ city is making another attempt to get a hefty state disability pension even though the dumbo's first attempt cost him his job.
BACKSTORY In 2010, the conniving policeman dreamed up a perfect plan: While he was alone on the job---on patrol---his wife would drive up in a dark van, shoot him in the leg, then escape----to be described as an "unknown assailant"
B/c if the conniving greedster cop were injured "in the line of duty," he could retire on disability, with a tax-free pension of about $50,000 a year, for the rest of his life.
Alas, when the Mrs fired, she missed her husband and shot-up his pants leg instead. Not to be deterred, the conniver-cop reported the "shooting" over police radio.....but an astute plainclothes officer, who happened to be nearby, figured it out and nabbed the Mrs.
The jig was up. The law came down.
The county prosecutor made a deal the cop couldn’t refuse: one count of disorderly conduct, a year of probation, $158 in fines and court costs and loss of his police job of 17 years......
His one consolation was having a souvenir of the "shooting"....a pair of unusable pants.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT Now, he's going for a disability claim, again, that he allegedly suffered two years before his sharpshooting wife hit his pants leg.
So? If he had suffered a disability in 2008, why did he set up the shady 2010 shooting scheme w/ his wife?
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MORAL OF THE STORY Govt employees must law awake nights dreaming up ways to cash in on the backs of the taxpayers.
There have been reported cases of cops on the job also collecting disability.
And "retired" cops collecting munificent pensions, working in other states.
In NJ, it was found at least 10 officials are collecting both a public pension and a public salary.
Another case involved a cop retiring, collecting a pension, but holding the same job he retired from.
Dan Liljenquist is a class act. He was elected to the Utah state senate in 2008. By 2010 he had guided legislation that solved the Utah state employees’ underfunded pension problems by moving the state’s employees to a 401K plan, eliminated “double dipping” AND ELIMINATED PENSIONS FOR LEGISLATORS.
In 2011 he sponsored legislation (which passed unanimously) that reformed Utah Medicaid by switching from a fee-for-service model to a managed care system and made Utah the first state in the US to cap Medicaid growth.
At the end of 2011 he resigned from the Utah state senate (what a rare classy move that is) in order to challenge sitting US Senator Orin Hatch in 2012. He didn’t succeed in unseating the well-funded incumbent Hatch unfortunately.
He would have been (and may in the future) a fantastic addition to the US Senate and a needed reinforcement to the true conservatives in the Senate.