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An obscure pension bureaucrat wangled one of the highest salaries of any public employee in New York City — eclipsing even Mayor Adams — by lying about receiving a plum job offer from another state, an investigation found.
Daniel Miller, deputy executive director of the Board of Education Retirement system (BERS), received a $28,549 pay hike to $255,000 in 2018 after asking his boss to match the salary he claimed an Ohio pension system had offered him, BERS Inspector General Anastasia Coleman found in an Aug. 9 report provided to The Post.
Apparently, the bureaucrat to but never received an offer from the Ohio School Employees Retirement System, and continued to lie about even to investigators.
His boss, the executive director, granted the huge raise without bothering to verify the offer.
THEN -- GET THIS:
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Sanford Rich, 64, BERS executive director and Miller’s boss then had the nerve to ask the BERS board to raise his own annual pay to $257,575, 1% more than his deputy, the probe found.
Most bosses would have said, "I'm sorry to see you go, but that is a bump we cannot afford to give you, I wish you success at your new job".
Sounds to me like a con job that they concocted to gain both of them more salary.
Most bosses would have said, "I'm sorry to see you go, but that is a bump we cannot afford to give you, I wish you success at your new job".
Sounds to me like a con job that they concocted to gain both of them more salary.
You may be right.
My question is -- why does the NYC Board of Education Retirement system (BERS) need BOTH an executive director AND a DEPUTY executive director in the first place?
My question is -- why does the NYC Board of Education Retirement system (BERS) need BOTH an executive director AND a DEPUTY executive director in the first place?
My question is -- why does the NYC Board of Education Retirement system (BERS) need BOTH an executive director AND a DEPUTY executive director in the first place?
Cause it’s NYC, the civil service system is loaded with redundant, high salaried positions.
Not defending what is wrong, but am I the only one amazed how easily the money appears for the raise? It seem as if they have the money to pay better.
Its taxpayer money, so its limitless, right. Just raise taxes. Not sure the capacity of a taxpayer funded system is the way to set whether or not pay should be higher.
Is it too political for this forum if I state that I imagine this guy marched with the BLM crowd?
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