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Topic: Sandusky will be allowed to
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Sandusky will be allowed to
keep $900G in pension money
Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By:StormCnter, 10/12/2012 5:47:45 AM
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| HARRISBURG, Pa. – Pennsylvania's public employee retirement system says Jerry Sandusky will get to keep more than $900,000 in state pension payments he received after his 1999 retirement from Penn State University. The State Employees' Retirement System said Thursday it won't seek repayment of the money Sandusky received from 1999 to September 2012 because the state's forfeiture law does not authorize SERS to go after money paid before the date of a plea or conviction. The agency notified Sandusky he will no longer receive his $59,000 annual pension following his conviction and sentence in the child sexual abuse scandal.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
O.S. Banker, 10/12/2012 6:58:19 AM (No. 8927616)
I am certain that this will upset some folks, and surprise othes, but this is statutory matter. There is nothing to see here.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MisterDickens, 10/12/2012 7:19:40 AM (No. 8927645)
Sometimes I wish I had just broken all the mirrors in my house and gotten on the dole with all the rest of the nation's public employees. 900 grand and 60k per year.
Well, I didn't, so I guess I'll just have to keep working.
Not to be contentious, #1, but there are many statutory matters that are just flat out wrong, passed into law, no doubt, to fatten the wallets of one group at the expense of another. I think it's good when these things see the light of day. Even if it's in an AssPress article.
This particular revelation shows us the absurdity of the college football program. The guy can probably barely spell his own name and he gets 900 grand in 12 years for sitting on his rear end, or on... no, I won't go there
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
zoidberg, 10/12/2012 8:00:51 AM (No. 8927721)
He's not going to be able to spend it in prison.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Cat Ballou, 10/12/2012 8:19:03 AM (No. 8927756)
Almost as bad as Hassan the Ft. Hood "work place incident" killer, continuing to collect his $6000 a month military salary as he awaits trial.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
rustycfc, 10/12/2012 8:37:25 AM (No. 8927806)
only in America can you do wrong and get paid for it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Halfvast Conspirator, 10/12/2012 9:16:25 AM (No. 8927897)
Either his lawyers or victims will get it. Probably the lawyers.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
philly_patriot, 10/12/2012 10:31:27 AM (No. 8928118)
This is obscene.
SERS should be ashamed of of it's self.
Pa is one of the few states WITHOUT a CODA for many pensioners. [only by state legislative action periodically].
There are elderly PA state pensioners 'living' on saate pensions of $3-400 a month.
How immoral.... to reward such behavior!
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