Taxpayers funded $192.7 million last year for the total compensation of state employees collecting both pensions and salaries, in a staggering 47 percent increase from 2010. Data obtained by Gannett’s Albany bureau show that the number of these double dippers rose by 32 percent in 2011, to 2,811, despite Governor Andrew Cuomo’s efforts to trim government […]
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Former State Senator Carl Kruger resigned, pleaded guilty to corruption charges, and has cleared out of his district’s office. But under current ethics law, he is still eligible for a state pension. The Times Union’s Jimmy Vielkind estimated that Kruger will get about $69,534.61 per year under the pension scheme because a pension claw-back provision in the new […]
