New York
Widower bilks $781K in pension payments sent to long-dead teacher wife: probe
A homeless widower collected more than $780,000 in illicit pension payments meant for his wife, a New York City teacher who had been dead for 18 years, an investigation found.
A Queens widower pocketed more than $781,000 in pension payments meant for his dead schoolteacher wife for 18 years before city officials got wise to the theft, a probe found.
The eye-popping sum – which the heavily taxpayer-funded Teachers’ Retireme... [3840 chars]