From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Three weeks after announcing plans to retire as chief of a west suburban fire department in 2004, James Eggert got a going-away present from his bosses: a $7,380 pay raise.These salary increases allowed a "pension bump," which fattened the pensions for both men.
That boosted the salary of the Tri-State Fire Protection District chief from $105,420 to $112,800.
Three months later — with two months to go till Eggert's retirement — the board overseeing the department, which serves parts of Darien, Burr Ridge, Willowbrook and unincorporated DuPage County, handed him another raise. This one was for more than $11,000. That boosted his pay to $124,079 — in all, more than $18,000 in raises in his final months on the job.
Around the same time, the tax-supported Tri-State fire district board agreed to a separation agreement with Assistant Fire Chief James Krohse, giving him a pay raise of more than $10,000 shortly before Krohse resigned.
And the way was also cleared the way for the promotion of a battalion chief who is now in a civil union with a Tri-State trustee.
Graft is not just a Chicago problem.
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the tax payers of the county should demand a clawback of these monies paid and the current Chief should be ousted now, will a pension reduction.
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