It's Not Enough to Get Paid for Not Working: These L.A. Police and Firefighters Figured Out How to Double It - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Take a program that lets a public employee earn both a pension and a salary at the same time.
Add an extremely generous disability leave and workers' compensation program that
allows public employees to be paid while not working for months or even years on end.
What do you get?
Massive corruption, obviously.
...The corruption that follows is fairly predictable.
The Times includes several stories of public safety employees who spend months or years of their final period on the job out on medical leaves.
But they're hardly bedridden or fighting their way through physical therapy.
One couple, a captain and a detective in the LAPD, spent around two years each on medical disability, spending some of their time at their condo in Cabo San Lucas starting a family theater production company.
A firefighter who injured his knee just weeks after entering the DROP program shares the same name and hometown as a man who ran a half-marathon two months later, but he and his lawyers would not confirm or deny to the Times whether they were the same person.
Unsurprisingly, this easily abusable program was sold by claiming it would accomplish the opposite of what it actually does..."
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"One of the Pentagon’s largest agencies can't account for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of spending, a leading accounting firm says in an internal audit obtained by POLITICO that arrives just as President Donald Trump is proposing a boost in the military budget.
