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Crooked judge heads straight to public retirement pension
http://www.reviewjournal.com ^ | 09/24/2014 | By JANE ANN MORRISON

Posted on 09/25/2014 8:09:20 AM PDT by redreno

When Steven Jones is sitting in prison (and I’m pretty sure the despicable abuse of his judicial powers will persuade a federal judge he’s unworthy of probation), don’t feel too sorry for him.

He probably won’t have money woes when he gets out. While he’s pumping iron behind bars, he can rest assured he might be able to get up to 75 percent of his $200,000 a year salary as a judicial pension, at least at some point.

That’s the way the system works. A pension is an earned benefit, so you can be a teacher convicted of molesting children or a police officer convicted of drug charges or a corrupt judge exploiting people, but you still get your pension.

They can’t take that away from you.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: crime; fraud; govtabuse; nevada; pension; publicemployee; tyranny

1 posted on 09/25/2014 8:09:20 AM PDT by redreno
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To: redreno

The only thing worse than crooked politicians is crooked judges.


2 posted on 09/25/2014 8:43:25 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Criminals all.


3 posted on 09/25/2014 8:53:18 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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