Another LI Lawyer — Getting Six State Pensions — Has Benefits Pulled
The ongoing scandal of private attorneys getting public benefits, such as pensions and health care, continued today as Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli yanked the pension of Long Island attorney Albert D’Agostino, who was receiving pension benefits from six—yes, six—public agencies.
DiNapoli suspended D’Agostino’s whooping $106,700 annual pension because he received pension service credits from Nassau County, Lawrence Union Free School District, Valley Stream Union Free School District, North Merrick Union Free School District, the Town of Hempstead and the Village of Valley Stream.
D’Agostino retired in October 2000.
“As we find problems in the retirement system, we’re fixing them,†DiNapoli said. “We’ll continue to dig until we’re confident that state pensions are only going to those people that rightly earned them.â€
Last month, DiNapoli’s office suspended the $61,459 annual pension of Long Island Lawrence Reich after an audit by DiNapoli’s office found five school districts inappropriately reported Reich as an employee.
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Business as usual with pension system abuses. Good work by DiNapoli. This could keep him busy for years.
For all of us that worked for 30 plus years in a civil service job with a maximum salary at retirement of 25000 and to receive about 15000 in retirement, these lawyers have stolen our money. The schools they worked for taxed homeowners for the money to pay the retirement benefit for these greedy lawyers. Again, this is robbery and I would hope the lawyers and any school administrator that approved this illegal practice are procecuted.