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The corpse of a 66-year-old man was carried to a post office by two fraudsters in an alleged bid to claim his pension, in scenes reminiscent of the 1989 film Weekend At Bernie's. In the dark comedy movie, a pair of insurance salesmen lug around the body of their murdered boss - pretending he's still alive - and lose and recover his corpse, which is clothed and wearing tinted glasses, several times. Irish police are investigating whether the elderly man, named locally as Peadar Doyle, may have been dead for up to two days when yesterday morning's incident took place....

According to Ron Williams in The News Journal, when Chris Coons served as the President of the County Council, he diverted untold millions of taxpayer dollars as payoffs to his political buddies and top staff. Coons did this by exploiting a loophole in the county’s pension program. The loophole was originally meant to attract new county police officers, but Coons decided to use it as a cash cow to pay off his political hacks.

Supervisors voted without cost analysis of lump-sum benefit, McCann claims Milwaukee County's controversial pension changes should be declared void because the County Board approved them improperly, according to District Attorney E. Michael McCann. County supervisors voted on the benefit improvements without a formal analysis of the cost impact of the "backdrop" lump-sum benefit, McCann claims, in a motion filed Friday in a lawsuit over the benefits. McCann is seeking to have his claim heard as an intervenor in lawsuit in which Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies and a group of retirees are asking to have the lucrative pension changes extended to...