700 times an average salary of $35,000 = $24,500,000
I guess that's why, right after Katrina, he was "sending them" to Las Vegas and Atlanta for R&R. He needed on-the-books-only-cops to evaporate.
Tip of the Iceberg.
You can't do that with Just One Guy. It takes someone in payroll or HR, and probably Nagin to be in cahoots with Compass. No way one guy could invent 700 cops, complete with resumes, ssn, addresses, and phones that somehow only take messages, bank accounts to deposit the checks, etc, etc,
That many officers have to have cars, uniforms, guns. Where did that stuff go?
Howcome Nagin didn't have bus drivers (which was his excuse for not using the buses)? Was that payroll padded too?
This is going to be big. Really big. I bet this reaches all the way up to Blanco.
Sure does gives new meaning to "The 700 Club".
for that much money i would expect the mayor and police chief to dress a bit nicer
I remember hearing someone say on FOX NEWS that no wonder the police didn't took off, after all they were being paid so little. Looks like salaries could have been doubled if only actual persons were on the payroll.
......but 3400 of them voted Democrat.
Your figure of $24,000,000 is probably low. Remember, the average salary is heavily based on entry level salaries.
I feel confident that these guys were probably higher ups, receiving bigger salaries, since they were non-performing or non-existent, except on the payroll rolls.
You got to have seniority to be a ghost-policeman. :-)
700 times an average salary of $35,000 = $24,500,000
Times how many years???