Forcing the forfeiture of a convicted politician’s pension—a recently-embraced weapon in the fight against public corruption—was upheld Wednesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
The circuit affirmed the inclusion of a lawmaker’s pension in the assets that are subject to forfeiture, weighing in for the first time on an issue that has roiled Albany amid a wave of guilty verdicts in corruption cases against New York politicians.
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