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Moonlight Patrol
After a grueling odyssey through the Pennslyvania courts, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the Associated Press obtained heavily redacted copies of 1,038 supplemental employment forms filed over the previous six and a half years by state troopers and the agency's civilian employees. Despite assurances to the contrary, the Trib uncovered numerous violations of statute and state regulations regarding the after-hours employment of the police.
Tags: employment; police; after hours; pittsburgh police
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Moonlighting deputies funnel cash to sheriff
Deputies working off-duty paid details at places such as Walgreens and Wal-Mart all pay Sheriff Marlin Gusman one dollar for every hour they work, providing Gusman with about $100,000 in discretionary money each year. Gusman, who often pleads penury in running his office, uses the detail money to throw parties for his staff and hire cheerleaders -- such expenditure is illegal, the Attorney General's Office has opined.
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Moonlighting City Workers
Fox news in Philadelphia reports as two employees of the Philadephia Board of Revision of Taxes were found to have been "working private jobs while on city time." One of the workers was a licensed funeral director, caught "attending funerals and meeting grieving families in the middle of his city work day." The other "was caught on tape working in his bar and shopping for beer and supplies" while on the city of Philadelphia's clock. Their timesheets indicated they had each claimed the time out at other jobs as time spent working for the city. In the end, the funeral director resigned, and the bar owner was fired by the city.
Tags: Employment; moonlighting; falsified timecards; undercover surveillance
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Playing the ponies
This WATE investigation revealed how the mayor and a tax enforcement officer for Campbell County spend time gambling out of state during the work week while on county time. The report also uncovered how the tax officer held down two outside jobs while he was supposed to be enforcing the wheel tax, a neglect of his county job duties that cost the county about $250,000 in lost education revenue. Cell phone records helped to show where and when the men were spending their time while they were supposed to be working.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; county government; cell phone records; moonlighting; gambling
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The National Institutes of Health: Public Servant or Private Marketer?
This series examines how payments from drug companies to scientists at the National Institutes of Health cause a conflict of interest that affects health care and policy recommendations. Even under the partial reforms announced by the presidentially appointed NIH director in 2004, some NIH scientists would still be able to take compensation such as stock options and consulting fees.
Tags: conflict of interest; moonlighting; prescription drugs; drug companies
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Atlantic City Special Police Detail Not so Special for Taxpayers
The Press of Atlantic City investigates a police program that allows officers to moonlight as security guards. A newspaper review of 2000 payroll records reveal that officers often called in sick and then worked as security guards for more than eight hours, thereby collecting sick pay and compensation for working security.
Tags: Atlantic City; abuses; police; pay; security guards; moonlighting
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Arresting Developments
The American Prospect looks at the use of police powers to enforce law on private property. The story reveals that police officers - often in uniform - are hired by private developments to enforce their private parking, speeding, trespassing, loitering, etc. rules. Cops cannot give a speeding ticket to someone who is violating a private speeding limit on a private speed, but they could consider arresting the violator for 'operating to endanger,' the magazine reveals. The reporter finds that "taken together, these moves represent a qualitative, though little noted, expansion of public law enforcement into the realm of private space." A major finding is that the approximately 25,000 private communities that already pay for their own private security patrols could argue successfully that they should not have to pay to support the public police system because they are policing themselves.
Tags: Jacksonville sheriff's department; moonlighting; gated communities; business; corporations; arrests; security; courts; property taxes; municipal services
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W.L. Brown: A Public-Private Partnership
A SF Weekly investigation of San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown revealed that the mayor's public and private lives may include a number of conflicts of interest. Before becoming San Francisco's mayor in 1996, Brown "moonlighted" as a lawyer and "his private law practice was large, lucrative, and controversial. He was repeatedly criticized for accepting large legal retainers from clients with significant interests in state legislation." SF Weekly's eight-part series found that Brown "received significant sums of money each year from a law firm he supposedly sold" after taking office, made mayoral decisions benefiting business entities that the mayor had financial interest in and "held ownership in a real estate partnership that made millions... when government agencies suddenly... showered the area with tens of millions of dollars in government subsidies."
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Timecard Troubles
The Middletown, NY, Times Herald-Record reports that "An examination of thousands of timecards of Orange County Sheriff's deputies moonlighting as part-time cops at local police departments revealed a pattern of timecard abuses. The deputies were "double-dipping" by filing timecards that showed them at both jobs at the same times on the same days."
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Township between rocks, hard place
The Columbus Dispatch investigates moonlighting professors at Ohio State University. Under an employment policy unique to higher education, thousands of college professors across the country take one day a week at taxpayer expense to moonlight at second jobs.
Tags: Miller Professors moonlight on taxpayer time Teachers College Income