Snippets about Lake Tahoe
• Johnny Poland, convicted felon and former South Lake Tahoe police officer, will be able to keep his taxpayer-funded retirement – just not at the full rate.
• Floppy’s on Kingsbury Grade has new owners – Zion Finck and Courtney Benvenuto. The grand reopening is Oct. 3 from 4:30-6:30pm.
• Truckee photographers and gallery owners Elizabeth and Olof Carmel have released their 2014 landscape photography calendars and Elizabeth Carmel photographic DVD.
• Tahoe National Forest has lifted its fire restrictions.
• There will be a meeting about incorporating Olympic Valley on Oct. 6 at 3pm at PlumpJack in the Squaw Valley Village.
Absolutely Amazing that a convicted felon, convicted for what he did on the job, gets a pension from that job!
No, there’s no shameless waste in govt!!!
And I just hope the Police Union gets behind an effort to end such baloney, so this doesn’t happen again in any future, similar instances!
A felon getting a govt. pension. Amazing!!
He forfeited the pension with the conviction.
But since he is going to receive it, hopefully it will all go to his wife and kids.
I assume that eligibility to begin collection of this pension would be at the full retirement age set by the Federal Government of 65 years. Also any benefit would be limited by the amount of time he worked.
If it isn’t, why isn’t it?
This is the full retirement age at which people who pay into Social Security can begin to collect their full pension after paying into it from the first day they begin work in their teens.
disgusting, just disgusting. As a taxpayer this makes me sick.
An employee pays into PERS in lieu of paying into SSN. So they get that money back plus interest. It has nothing to do with the crime(s) he committed.
There you go again John, being all reasonable and stuff.
Have a little fun and have a knee jerk, irrational response to something now and then.
:p
Seriously though. He messed up. It doesn’t make sense to take everything he has earned so that he will have nothing when he serves out his sentence. We have a big problem in this country because our ‘justice’ system is more punitive than rehabilitative.
Now go sit in the corner and think about what you did. And no more GI Joes.
Retirement Age for a cop is 50. He will get 3.7% of his salary for each year that he was in service.
cosa pescado must not live in a glass house and has never made a mistake. You must be perfect.
Poland earned a certain amount of years of retirement under a 3% at 50 (yrs of age) plan. I do not know, but I would suspect he possibly resigned just prior to his conviction/plea which in the system of PERS (retirement)would allow him to collect what he had worked for under the system. A person who is convicted of a felony while being an active member of PERS loses the PERS contribution and can only receive what their personal contribution has been, at least this was the procedure in the past when I checked with PERS. If you relate it to an individual who has payed into and had employer contributions into a 401k retirement and is fired, they still get their retirement account since it is their earnings. Otherwise, employers would have been firing employees once their 401s became significant.