For state workers, a season of outrage after years of service
Source: Casey Seiler, Times Union (NY), Friday, May 2, 2008
There's a long list of people who should feel cheated by the revelation that some public entities have for years been handing out pension credits to private contractors. The investigation began by looking at lawyers who handled routine work for the Hamilton-Fulton-Montgomery BOCES cooperative and several downstate school districts, but it's expanding.
In a grim season for reform, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and Comptroller Tom DiNapoli deserve credit for going after a practice that was as long-standing as it is egregious.
...... But there's another class of New Yorker that has an even more righteous claim to anger over this mess, and that's anyone paying into a legitimately earned government pension -- state workers, teachers, local government employees among them.