Posted on 03/25/2024 6:56:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A Staten Island power couple made up of the district attorney and a state Supreme Court judge are under scrutiny for “double dipping” by taking in hefty taxpayer-funded salaries and pensions.
Both DA Michael McMahon and Judge Judith McMahon are getting paid six-figure salaries while also collecting government pensions that are likely more than $100,000, The Post has learned.
DA McMahon “retired” from government service in December — while remaining the borough’s chief prosecutor — and now collects a pension that is likely upwards of $130,000.
McMahon, 66, a former legislative staffer, councilman and congressman before becoming district attorney in 2016, has accrued more than 30 years of government service.
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I think these situations are more common than one thinks.
It all depends on the terms of the various pension plans regarding retirement.
Say a policeman can retire after 30 years of service. He or she does so and retires at say age 55. There is probably nothing in the plan that prohibits that person from taking another job in the city and working until age 65 or so and then collecting another pension.
Because I collect a state teacher pension, my Social Security check (based on jobs I had before teaching) is cut in half—due to a law to prevent ‘double dipping’.
graft not included in figures?
Happens all the time in and around Our Nation’s Capital
Corrupt right wingers, it seems.
Right wing democrats?
Good observation!
It also happens in the academic world.
A person joins a college or university as an assistant professor at say age 30. For the next 25 years he or she works under a nine month contract. In reality a 24/7 calendar: 24 hours a week 7 month a year.
At age 55 the individual become a dean, associate dean or other non-teaching administration. And as we know colleges and universities abound with those positions.
Now the person get a nice raise and is on a 12 month contract. At retirement time, the pension is based on length of service, say 35 years and the average salary for the final 3 or 5 years of employment-the much higher administrator’s salaly. Proably an extra $25,000 to $50,000 a year for the next 20 or 30 years.
Sorry, I saw Staten Island in the headline and assumed they were right wingers. Who reads the articles any more? LOL.
Reading articles is against the rules at FR!
EVER ASK HOW MANY PENSIONS JERRY BROWN IS COLLECTING???
He was Calif AG
He was GOVERNOR——TWICE
HE was MAYOR OF OAKLAND FOR A LONG TIME
IS THAT 4 PENSIONS?????
Power couple swilling at the public trough.
Well, not sure the controversy here... If they worked their jobs and qualify for their pensions, they are owed it, if they find other work to be paid for on top of it, that’s there right.
One can argue their pay and pensions may be too high, but that’s another argument.
"It feels mighty good pigging out on the backs of struggling taxpayers."
For a while there, I thought the New York Post was trying to sucker us into condemning a Republican.
Staten Island used to elect a lot of Republicans.
That may have changed over the last two psycho-decades.
Anyway, NYP does not mention the DA is a Democrat until the last few paragraphs of the story.
His wife's political party? Never mentioned, unless I missed it.
This is routine among LEO and FDs here in Cali. It’s also legal to do and shpuld be illegal imho.
Especially if they trade one state or local government job for another state or local government job.
I have no problem if a LEO or FD person retires after 30 years of service and then goes to the private sector for another 10 or 20 years.
<>Well, not sure the controversy here<>
I believe you.
You don’t like the fact they got pensions and kept working?
Suppose you would prefer someone getting a pension is banned from working?
Should I be angry at my neighbors put 20 years in the military and got
A full pension from it and then went on and took a full time job?
You don’t like the way the system is change the system but getting angry at the people who did the right things for getting their reward is just jealousy not controversy
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