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badger
10/27/2011, 05:59 PM
You know, there's a lot less sympathy and support for unions and people that still get government pensions when sh!t like this goes down:

Link (http://newsok.com/fbi-hundreds-of-ny-rail-workers-part-of-1b-fraud/article/feed/311280?custom_click=lead_story_title)


Hundreds of Long Island Rail Road employees may have cheated their way to big pensions through a $1 billion fraud by paying off doctors to say they were unable to work, authorities said Thursday as they revealed that some supposedly disabled retirees were spotted regularly playing tennis and golf, shoveling heavy snow and working out for hours at a gym.


They were apparently working OT excessively for five years, then got their doctors to write off on disabilities/injuries so they could not only collect a larger pension (befitting of their extended hour pay), but also disability since they could no longer work.

There is a lot of blame to go around for the crappy financial situation this country is in --- and it ain't always the millionaires and billionaires! :mad:

Midtowner
10/27/2011, 07:58 PM
Who said it was? These folks will probably go to prison. The billionaires who caused the housing collapse won't.