Shorter Fred LeBrun


By albany layman, Section Diaries
Posted on Wed May 14, 2008 at 08:24:55 AM EST

Shorter Fred LeBrun:

It's good that Cuomo is going after lawyers who were getting pension credits inappropriately, but I'm really more of a status quo, go along to get along kind of guy.

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Shorter Fred LeBrun | 1 comment (1 topical, 0 hidden)
LeBrun may have a point (none / 0) (#1)
by AlfredMoisiu on Wed May 14, 2008 at 08:10:08 PM EST
I'm not shedding any tears for the poor attorneys who have public sector clients who are short on funds. If you want to get rich, don't practice library law.

But are they the ones committing fraud here? I'm honestly not quite sure. Is there some vague corner of civil service law that may allow for this? It seems like hundreds of attorneys wouldn't be doing this unless there was some shade of grey.

And if there is fraud, to me that the school district administrators and the boards who signed off on the creation of no-show jobs and pension payments were a party to it as well. Why is state aid, supposedly spent to benefit "the children", being used to pay for district professional services?

Don't forget that the other major of the scam was securing state aid for the phoney positions. Who knows where else school districts are phoneying-up the books so they can blow your money while telling the voters that the budget will "have no impact on the tax levy."

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