Elected officials, gubernatorial appointees, municipal managers, department heads, chief fiscal officers, judges, and several other policy - makers convicted of a felony, involving the breach of public trust, would all be subject to
forfeiture of pension benefits.
Not exact matches
Neither
pension forfeiture nor cracking down on Super PACs has anything to do with these matters, good - government advocates say, and while laudable, they shouldn't substitute for proposals that restrict the flow
of campaign money or the omnipresent correlation between those who donate and
benefit from favorable state actions.
The
pension forfeiture push came after both legislative leaders — ex-Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — were convicted
of corruption, but allowed to keep their annual
pension benefits totaling $ 80,000 and $ 96,000 respectively.
Weingarten The report misrepresents the impact
of defined
benefit pension plans on those who leave teaching, omitting the fact that there isn't
forfeiture of contributors, and it fails to explain the positive impact
of defined
benefit pension plans on those who stay.