B1 4 Indicted in Pensions Case After a year spent weighing evidence of corrupt investments in pension funds made by Connecticut's former state treasurer, a federal grand jury indicted four people.
After two prominent S.E.C. pension cases, the American Bar Association's new disclosure bible for municipal bond lawyers is selling briskly.
Their five pension lawsuits were assigned to Judge Sarah Taft-Carter of the state Superior Court, who has handled public pension cases before and handed a big victory to the unions in one recent case.
Accordingly, the total number of disability pension cases due to osteoporosis-related conditions in 2008, was estimated at approximately 1.444.
Raum was also accused of accepting loan payments in return for expediting pension cases.
Today Attorney General Schuette, on behalf of Governor Snyder, filed applications for leave to appeal with the Michigan Court of Appeals in the three pension cases before Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Rosmarie Aquilina.
Instead, the state high court's order amounted to a "you go first" message, said Arthur Liou, an attorney who represents unions in both pension cases.
Attorney Stephen Silver, who litigates pension cases, said he represents a plaintiff who is facing the loss of several years of retirement benefits and, perhaps more important, disability benefits obtained after the date of the alleged crime.
Until now, Mr. Rattner was something of a shadow figure in the pension case.
Abramson hired a lawyer and thought she was gently pursuing her salary and pension case with Sulzberger and Thompson.
Asked about the mayor's reaction, Marc LaVorgna, a City Hall spokesman, said, "The mayor has never interfered with an individual pension case and is not going to here".
