Posted on 07/06/2010 3:44:59 PM PDT by dynachrome
They also are accused of hiring prostitutes for sexual encounters at their remote worksite on the former Navy base in San Francisco Bay and stocking a private bedroom in their office suite with liquor, condoms, Viagra and pornographic DVDs.
They were known as the Hetch Hetchy Power Crew, an elite unit named for the reservoir in Yosemite National Park that supplies the city with hydroelectric power. Their difficult, sometimes dangerous job was to maintain the city's high-voltage electrical system, especially during emergencies.
Five members of the power crew were arrested last year after a whistle-blower complained that crew leader Donnie Alan Thomas, 46, was moonlighting on city time. The men, along with two women accused of creating fake invoices to further the scheme, are awaiting trial in San Francisco Superior Court on felony charges. All have pleaded not guilty.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
This was an “isolated incident”. Taxes should still be raised - “for the children”.
One wonders how much of this is going on with other government agencies? I’m willing to bet this is happening more often than one might think.
San Fran Gen Hospital Police Chief last year earned HALF A MILLION DOLLARS, with OT figured in.
By cutting the budget in half California would lose NOTHING.
Absolutely. Everyone knows that California public employees are the only ones that are corrupt. All other city and state workers across the country are as pure as the driven snow and would never, ever do anything to waste taxpayer dollars.
but, but, but, they are UNION, and we all know how honest union folks are
EVERY State has this kind of runaway salary structure, usually backed by a Big Union, and taxpayers are forced to fund 6-figure retirements for un-told un-skilled/un-productive labor. I suspect office clerks retire at incomes that rival actual productive private sector middle management people, IF they were "government employees".
For those that don’t read the article —the leader of the crew was making $160k per year for a job he was mostly NOT showing up to, meanwhile he set up a contracting biz that he DID work, and that one made $400k per year doing ElecEng work at the same sites he was SUPPOSED to be working..!
So the state paid him to NOT work, and then they paid him very richly TO work.
Hey —I didn’t work for the state today; can *I* get paid for that?
I’ve always told my boss that I should be paid to stay home. I do less damage that way.
;)
I’m fairly sure that this sort of thing (maybe not to this extreme) is the norm at agencies. Any truly honest person doesn’t last long in government.
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