Cal U quietly added football players with criminal backgrounds – Tribune-Review
Cal U quietly added football players with criminal backgroundsTribune-ReviewIn the past two years, California University of Pennsylvania quietly signed a trio of football players who were booted from Division I schools when charged with violent crimes ranging from armed robbery to aggravated assault, a Tribune-Review …
Union Lobbyists Substitute-Teach for One Day, Get $1 Million Pensions (Reason Magazine – Hit and Run)
From the Twitter feed of Michael Hewlett comes this incredible tale of union flim-flamming of Illinois taxpayers.
Writing at _Forbes_, OpentheBooks.com founder Adam Andrzejewski explains that in 2012, Illinois reformed its particularly loose public-pension rules specifically to squeeze out a lot of recipients who shouldn't really have qualified for taxpayer-funded retirements. The new law specifically came about after news leaked that two teachers-union lobbyists, Stephen Preckwinkle and David Piccioli, had managed to get pensions worth more than $1 million after substitute teaching for just one day apiece.
> A couple of weeks ago, we spotted Preckwinkle and Piccioli within a long list of 30 state retirees from the Illinois Federation of Teachers (private sector teachers union). Sure enough, in 2014, Piccioli is receiving $30,564 and Preckwinkle $37,416 pensions (click here for their life expectancy pension payouts of nearly $1 million each). The experience was a bit overwhelming, even for our seasoned team of forensic investigators….
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> Sadly, these cases represent a systematic problem. The Washington Times recently ran a story based on data collected at OpenTheBooks.com exposing 40 private sector union leaders from the National Education Association, Illinois Education Association and the Illinois Federation of Teachers who cleaned out $5,000,000 a year in Illinois teacher pensions.
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