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EDITORIAL: State retirement system will mount another appeal with taxpayer cash
http://www.reviewjournal.com ^ | 02/04/2017 | Las Vegas Review-Journal

Posted on 02/05/2017 1:41:19 PM PST by BackRoads775

It’s long past time for the Nevada Supreme Court to send a clear message to the folks running the state public pension system.

Last week, attorneys for the Public Employee Retirement System announced they will appeal a District Court ruling that brushed aside the agency’s effort to withhold information from the taxpayers who support the pension fund. It’s just the latest gambit in the system’s six-year effort to delay, impede and obfuscate when it comes to lawful court orders.

On at least four occasions, agency arguments that retiree pension payouts should be confidential have failed in court. Yet rather than comply by making the data public, those who run the system continue to make matters worse by wasting taxpayer resources in an attempt to keep in the dark those very same taxpayers.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: publicemployee; taxes; taxpayer

1 posted on 02/05/2017 1:41:19 PM PST by BackRoads775
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State retirement system will mount another appeal FOR taxpayer cash to pay gov’t workers while stealing the retirement money of the taxpayers and not fixing the roads, infrastructure etc.


2 posted on 02/05/2017 5:35:53 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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