Fussing over retroactive revocation of pensions is a laugh

Fussing over retroactive revocation of pensions is a laugh

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Subject: Fussing over retroactive revocation of pensions is a laugh

Date: Apr 17, 2008 7:40 AM

All of this fussing over retroactive action against corrupt state
employees does
nothing to stop the current and ongoing abuse, since let's face it-
John Rowland
and duh DCF gang was nearly 6 years ago:
"A national string of prisons and juvenile detention centers based on
the creation
of criminals by DCF due to the trauma of the removal of parents and
psychotropic
drugging of children into DEMENTIA (agitation and violence)."

Six years of unrestricted false criminal charges against victims of
State employee
crime- retaliation against whistleblowers:
* w w w .actionlyme.org/VIKING_INTERVIEWS.htm
DCF hoes dancing on bar taples wid duh cops...


The legislators don't and won't hear us. We complained several times
to
them:
* w w w .actionlyme.org/TELL_IT_TO_MR_POTATOHEAD_THE_OMBUDMAN.htm
Complain to Law Enforcement?

Go to Jail

Complain to CT Legislators?

They'll forward your complaint to the Imaginary Mr. PotatoHead of the
Complaint
Department.

Circa Jan 2005....

* w w w .actionlyme.org
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Connecticut Senate Approves Ethics Reform Bill

By JON LENDER And CHRISTOPHER KEATING

Courant Staff Writers

April 17, 2008

Pensions of corrupt state and municipal officials could be revoked or
reduced by
judges under a landmark ethics bill approved by a unanimous 35-0 vote
Wednesday
night in the state Senate.

But doubts remained on whether House leaders will even bring it to a
vote.

A House committee co-chairman insisted that the pension revocation
provision in
the Senate's compromise bill =97 supported by Republican Gov. M. Jodi
Rell and
Democratic Attorney General Richard Blumenthal =97 is too weak because
it isn't
automatic.

Instead, the bill gives a judge the option of reducing or revoking an
official's
pension, as well as using the pension money to pay for costs of
incarceration or
any fines or restitution, said Rep. Christopher Caruso, D-Bridgeport,
who is legislative
elections committee co-chairman.

Caruso also has pushed for "retroactivity" =97 allowing revocation of
pensions
of officials convicted of corruption over the past 10 years, such as
ex-Gov. John
G. Rowland.

Caruso doesn't want the House to consider the Senate version, saying:
"I
will be unveiling a real pension revocation bill, and the Senate can
vote for it
or against it."

Supporters of the Senate bill thought they had a deal with the House
last week,
but their optimism was premature. After Wednesday night's vote, they
said that
House Democratic leaders should follow their lead.

"All we ask from the House of Representatives is a vote," said
Blumenthal,
who stood alongside Senate President Pro Tem Donald Williams, D-
Brooklyn, and Caruso's
co-chairwoman on the elections committee, Sen. Gayle S. Slossberg, D-
Milford.

"We need a vote in the House of Representatives on this bill,"
Slossberg
said. "We've worked on this bill and this language for so many years,
and
the people of the state of Connecticut need to be able to know that if
you are corrupt
=2E.. you will not be rewarded at the end of the day with a public
pension."

Caruso will meet with House Speaker James Amann =97 probably Friday =97 to
discuss the
Senate version and possible alternatives, Amann's spokesman, Larry
Perosino,
said.

After political scandals during the past decade, lawmakers have failed
several times
to pass an ethics bill because of disputes on key provisions such as
revoking corrupt
officials' pensions =97 with some claiming it would be unconstitutional
to do
that retroactively.

The Senate version has solid Republican backing in both the House and
the Senate.
Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, said it emphasizes
the importance
of ethics not only for elected officials, but regular state employees.

He recalled that when he was a law clerk at the state Supreme Court in
the 1990s,
he and other clerks were told by Chief Justice Ellen Peters: "You're
all
public servants ... your salaries are paid ... and all these offices
are funded
by the people of the state of Connecticut. So I don't want you using
the telephone
to call home ... and I don't want you to use the fax machines or the
Xerox machines
for your own personal use. Because =85 it belongs to the people."

Rell hailed the Senate bill, saying "final passage of these long-
sought and
much-needed reforms will complete the process of installing safeguards
to prevent
anyone from taking advantage of the public trust."

The bill also would ban the legislature's and governor's chiefs of
staff
from soliciting campaign contributions =97 a provision stemming from a
2005 scandal
about Rell staff chief M. Lisa Moody's fundraising efforts in the
Capitol.

The bill also would make it a crime to fail to report a bribe offer or
fail to report
witnessing a bribe. It also would subject a governor's spouse to state
ethics
code provisions.

Contact Jon Lender at jlender@courant . com .

Copyright =A9 2008, The Hartford Courant

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