June 30, 2010, 12:05 AM
The state auditor's office yesterday released one of its regular reports on state employees behaving badly, highlighting examples of state workers taking improper gifts, fabricating expense receipts, failing to report used vacation time and otherwise costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of...
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May 10, 2010, 12:36 AM
Federico Buenrostro Jr., former head of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, allegedly received the keys to a Lake Tahoe condominium and a six-figure salary when he left state service in 2008 to start work for an investment consulting firm, according to a civil fraud lawsuit...
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March 5, 2010, 12:03 AM
Thousands of you left comments, dozens followed up with phone calls and e-mails and tens of thousands paid a visit to our online payouts database. The feedback we've received on last weekend's story about state workers cashing out millions of dollars in unused vacation and leave time has...
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March 2, 2010, 12:05 AM
Last weekend, we told you about how California state departments were allowing their employees to build up large amounts of unused time off, then cash it out when they left state service – at times flouting rules designed to limit how much time employees were allowed to accrue. ...
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February 27, 2010, 6:57 PM
California Watch received two datasets from the State Controller’s Office, which we used to estimate how much departments paid their employees for excess leave between 2006 and mid-2009. Go through the numbers with us.
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