Auditor General Jack Wagner Says Chester County Iu Let Former Director Collect $79,000 in Pension Benefits While Working

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Investigators also find at least $12,750 in improper credit-card purchases

HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Auditor General Jack Wagner said today that his special investigation has concluded that the Chester County Intermediate Unit improperly circumvented state pension rules by paying a salary to its former executive director, John K. Baillie, for a period of six months after his retirement while he also collected $79,083 in payments from the state pension system.

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Auditor General Jack Wagner Says Chester County Iu Let Former Director Collect $79,000 in Pension Benefits While Working

Wagner's Office of Special Investigations found that Baillie retired from CCIU on Friday, Jan. 5, 2007, and returned to work on the following Monday. The state pension law permits a retiree collecting a pension to return to work only in an emergency in which no qualified replacement can be found to fill the...

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