Crooked police chief still gets a pension

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/2199754,CST-NWS-watchdogs26.article

April 26, 2010

BY STEVE WARMBIR The Watchdogs

Vito Scavo -- the crooked former Melrose Park police chief -- muscled a Catholic church, a movie theater, a children's amusement park and other businesses in the west suburb to hire his private security firm, which he staffed with on-duty cops.

He also ordered his employees -- while on the clock -- to drive his car from Illinois to his Florida vacation home.

He had them hang his Christmas lights, get his wife's car washed, take his dog to the groomer -- and pick up its doo-doo from his backyard.

Scavo, who retired in 2006, was convicted of racketeering and extortion and sentenced in February to six years in prison.

But he's still getting his Melrose Park government pension -- $7,737.88 a month.

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1. He shouldn't be getting a dime.

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2. Someone really needs to review these public employee contracts

to insert exclusions based on terminations due to unethical or criminal activity, so that stuff like this does not occur.

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4. It needs to be done legislatively on the state level.

It is easier to bamboozle citizens at the local government level when there is little oversight.

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3. IMO he is receiving too much pension even if he was an honest person.

Especially if it is tax exempt. Not knowing the contract he might have negotiated to have it considered a deferred compensation plan.