AFP-NC Supports Effort to Cut off Taxpayer Funded Pensions to Lawmakers Turned Felons

In March of 2005, the grassroots membership of Americans for Prosperity-North Carolina was among the first to call for Speaker Black’s resignation. He refused. Now after millions of dollars in investigations expenses, significant harm to the electoral system and the corrupt creation of the state lottery, Jim Black is headed to federal prison again at the expense of taxpayers. Soon former state representative Michael Decker will be joining him.

Unlike many states North Carolina does not appear to have a law that will keep these convicted felons who took bribes and broke the law from collecting a taxpayer funded pension, this is wrong and should be changed immediately.

AFP-NC is calling on the legislature to immediately correct this statutory oversight and prohibit any individual from receiving any public pension if they are convicted of a crime that results from abusing their elected or appointed position in any level of state government.

“The legislature should immediately pass the ‘Black & Decker Pension’ bill to correct this oversight in law,” said Francis De Luca-State Director AFP-NC.
“The citizens of North Carolina do not expect their hard earned tax dollars to go to convicted criminals who abused the public trust.”

To see a list of states and the current status on policies governing termination or Confiscation of Public Pensions go to:
http://www.nasra.org/resources/Pension%20termination%20policies.pdf