New York City has uncovered at least 14 instances of pension fraud totaling $500,000 -- money that had been intended for dead city employees.
That's according to City Comptroller John Liu, whose office cross-checked pension payments with death records from 2007-2009.
A study announced Monday found 14 cases in which a dead retiree's pensions checks had been cashed or continued to be deposited in the dead retiree's account.
The most egregious example: Someone used a dead retiree driver's license to cash 38 pension checks totaling $139,818 after the retiree's death in 2007.
When the license expired in 2010, it was renewed and the person or persons continued to cash the dead retiree's checks.
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