Part-timers' pensions face probe

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:

Michael Angelini didn't have a computer in any West Deptford municipal building. He didn't fill out time sheets. He didn't have a township business card or a telephone or even a desk.

But the politically connected lawyer had a profitable arrangement: His retainer as West Deptford's solicitor was reported to the state pension system as salary.

With that deal, and part-time jobs with 11 other government entities over 27 years, Angelini built up a taxpayer-funded pension worth more than $100,000 a year, according to a scathing report by Inspector General Mary Jane Cooper released last week.

Angelini, chairman of the Gloucester County Democratic Party, has never won election to a public office, has never been a full-time government employee, and continued working as a partner in a South Jersey law firm while collecting up to seven government checks at a time. Yet he is part of the same retirement system that includes career clerks and secretaries who clock in from 9 to 5 Monday through Friday.

Your high taxes at work.