Posted on 03/17/2011 4:16:05 AM PDT by Sawdring
Don Omodt made a good living as Hennepin County sheriff in the 1990s.
He's making a better one as a retiree, with an annual government pension just under $150,000 a year, or $12,419 a month.
So is Dale Ackmann, who left as Hennepin County administrator in 1992 and now collects $14,039 a month. Likewise, former state Transportation Commissioner Richard Braun gets $11,365 a month from the state and the University of Minnesota, where he taught.
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After 20 years as a state Supreme Court justice, Lawrence Yetka stepped down in 1993. He gets $10,001 a month, a pension he considers so generous that it led to him volunteering as a substitute judge in retirement.
"It was a very, very welcome surprise," he said of his monthly benefit. "I volunteer my services to make up for that. I didn't think that I should be paid separately for sitting on the bench [while] drawing a pension of that amount."
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wow...
I hope the FReepers read your entire excellent post.
Here is the guy who is the only hero in this. At least he is trying to give back to the community:
(from your article...)
After 20 years as a state Supreme Court justice, Lawrence Yetka stepped down in 1993. He gets $10,001 a month, a pension he considers so generous that it led to him volunteering as a substitute judge in retirement.
“It was a very, very welcome surprise,” he said of his monthly benefit. “I volunteer my services to make up for that. I didn’t think that I should be paid separately for sitting on the bench [while] drawing a pension of that amount.”
Omodt, who served 28 years as Hennepin County sheriff, said much of his pension money has gone to caring for his now-deceased wife and his children.
While that “sounds like a lot of money,” Omodt said, “there was hardly a Saturday or Sunday that I didn’t work. So I think I gave back a lot to the citizens.”
A $10,000 per month hero.
Only a hero in the sense that he realizes it’s too generous and he’s trying to “give back.” An attack of conscience.
OTOH, then there are the clowns in Wisconsin.
meh
Dang. These people made some excellent career choices.
Wow, had I known I would have become a millionaire by becoming a cop, I would have never gone to college.
To become a cop, all you need is a GED and a pulse.
Heh, he makes $10,000 a month and he gives back by being a substitute judge......... Give me a break. He is trying to justify his outrageous pension by going down to the courthouse once a month. And he says he cares for his family with the money. LOL. This guy is a dick. He should have just said that MN offered him the money and now he is collecting, end of story.
And knew the "right people" I'm sure...
At least in the old days, it wasn't so much what you knew, but who you knew that landed these types of situations. Start out as a lowly clerk, retire as Chief Admin.
File it under “The Decline and Fall of America.”
It doesn't sound like this judge was one of the ones screaming for a big pension when the legislature was playing at being nice guy with other people's money.
To be a cop in dayton, ohio, all you need to do is “flunk” a test and you are in!
http://web1mdcs.state.mi.us/HRJobSpecifications/JobSpecifications.aspx
scroll down to the state trooper job specs and check out the education requirement.
high school diploma/ ged.
then you just gotta make it through the academy.
Every recent Federal retiree (under the old CSRS ret. system) that was in the Senior Executive Service (SES - those above Grade 15 - and the Feds are top heavy with them) is collecting on the order of $11,000 per month. That’s 74% of their $176,000. Sheesh.
1) “LAPD May Relax Its Hiring Rules; Chief Bratton proposes ending zero tolerance of past drug use and bad credit. Some fear that lower standards would bring problem officers.”
Wendy Lee, Times Staff - Writer, Los Angeles Times, August 29, 2005.
2) “A little past coke use OK, says LAPD hiring policy. Police recruitment rules draw the line at meth, heroin,”
BY KERRY CAVANAUGH, Daily News.com 11/01/2006
3) “The Austin, Texas, Police Department has established a prior-use drug policy that revolves around the experimental versus the habitual user.
4) ‘Mile High Cops - Denver - 52 of 80 new police recruits admit to prior drug use -
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surveys of the general population, by contrast, only about half of 18-to-34-year-olds admit to having used an illegal drug.”
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