Long lsland Public Employee Union. 90% Retire With Disability. One $ Billion Fraud Case.

• Some had desk jobs.
• Don't doctors have to sign off on these frauds?
• Doctors don't value their career?
• Should be easy to investigate, go after the desk jockeys first.

Then there is more shocking revelations from this excerpt.

The LIRR disability epidemic is hardly unique—82% of senior California state troopers are "disabled" in their last year before retirement. Pension abuses are so common—for example, "spiking" pensions with excess overtime in the last year of employment—that they're taken for granted.

I don't know how many employees are legitimately disabled, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to guess that these figures mean at least half the members of each of these unions are engaged in some kind of fraud. Pension padding schemes are common, but when it looks like more union members are involved than not -- that's a whole new level of corruption. I'd also like to think that when it comes to exercising ethical judgment police officers would be a cut above the average employee. But apparently that's not the case in California.

Who can you trust these days- honor? You can still find it in the military.

Read the rest from the Weekly Standard by Mark Hemingway.