Category: Media Coverage
Meanwhile, in other pension news, the feds yesterday busted 11 people -- including two doctors and a former union president -- on charges they perpetrated a “massive fraud scheme” involving phony disability pensions for Long Island Rail Road work Read More
Last week, the feds indicted 11 Long Island Rail Road retirees and their alleged associates in a “massive fraud scheme” to steal a billion dollars through fake disability claims. But the bigger outrage is that for decades the LIRR has held state Read More
New York state's second-largest public employee union must approve an austere new contract, or face the possibility of 3,500 layoffs. The union rank and file already rejected a nearly identical deal once. But Gov. Andrew Cuomo insists the state can't Read More
A public spending watchdog says the highest public school salary in the state outside of New York City is more than $506,000 The Empire Center for Public Policy also says four districts have average teacher salaries more than $95,000. The avera Read More
A report by a public spending watchdog group says the superintendent of a Long Island school system is the highest paid in the state. The Empire Center for Public Policy says Syosset School District superintendent Carole Hankin makes more than $50 Read More
Public workers who retire and then return to work later often draw pensions in addition to collecting paychecks. The Times Herald-Record newspaper printed a list of 16 Hudson Valley region candidates in local elections who receive public pensions. Read More
A list that shows the top 100 salaries being paid to New York State public school employees was released on the Empire Center for NYS Policy's website Thursday. The highest paid school worker is superintendent of the Syosset School District on Lon Read More