As fewer and fewer people in the private sector have any access to anything resembling a true retirement pension, is there to be no end to the pension largesse in California’s public sector?
And it’s one thing for a retiring civil servant who has performed work admirably over the decades to get a monthly payout when moving into their golden years. We’re sure that many of them deserve the benefit, even if we’re not so sure that the old notion of government workers getting paid less for their work in return for more in retirement is true anymore.
But it simply could not be more maddening to learn that a disgraced former deputy mayor of Los Angeles who lost his position for literally phoning in a fake bomb threat to L.A. City Hall and is now facing felony charges because of it was allowed to retire from his job — and is in line to receive the pension he would have earned if he had served honorably through his career.
As Los Angeles Magazine reports, Brian Williams, 61, “The disgraced former deputy mayor of Public Safety for Los Angeles, who agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of making a bomb threat against City Hall and lying to LAPD officials and his boss Karen Bass about the call, will collect a publicly-funded pension despite the serious charge and the city’s $1 billion shortfall.”
“For specifics on his pension, we’d suggest reaching out to LACERS,” the city’s retirement system, Bass’s office told the magazine after it inquired about the crook’s big windfall.
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The FBI’s Akil Davis said that Williams had “not only betrayed the residents of Los Angeles, but responding officers, and the integrity of the office itself.” Why should we let him make crime pay?
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