Blocking Pay Day's For Criminals !

[GOYABEAN]

Legislation would block insurance payouts to criminals like Graswald
ALBANY – Assemblyman James Skoufis (D, Woodbury) will introduce legislation that would bar persons convicted of criminally negligent homicide from receiving life insurance benefits from the deceased’s policy.

Skoufis’ measure comes following word that Angelika Graswald of Poughkeepsie, who pled guilty to criminally negligent homicide in the drowning of her fiancé Vincent Viafore, in the Hudson River off Cornwall, is seeking the $491,000 life insurance pay-out in his death.

“This simple fact that a court may determine that someone who is guilty of criminally negligent homicide can then receive the life insurance payment for that person that they committed homicide against just defies any logic, is crazy,” the assemblyman said.

Skoufis noted that someone who is convicted of murder or kills a person recklessly automatically forfeits a pay-out.

He does not anticipate any problems securing a sponsor in the Republican-controlled State Senate.

 

[Apeman]

I agree. BUT isn' it funny how when anyone says public officials shouldn't get their taxpayer funded pesion if they'e convicted of a felony they cry like little butcher and won' try to pass that law.

 

[SomeSoldier]

Republicans should agree only if they add in the pension and state Congressmen with felony convictions.

 

[Steal2B]

I agree. BUT isn' it funny how when anyone says public officials shouldn't get their taxpayer funded pesion if they'e convicted of a felony they cry like little butcher and won' try to pass that law.

Not sure if legislators are smart enough to legally do it. Part of the problem is that with more than a few pensions, you want to "seize" pensions that were not publically funded and the retiree will never live long enough to go on the public's dime. There are federal pension laws that preclude blindly seizing someone's money and why would you ever give that money to FUAC or progressive give away campaigns. The blame should go on the Prosecutors and Judges, who can make sure the guilty do not ever profit from taxpayer pension contributions with specific case by case judgements, but they seldom bother.