Addicted to drug money: DA, cops hoard dealer dough for salaries and consultants

The Boston Herald reports on why the state of Massachusetts needs the war on drugs:

Suffolk District Attorney Dan Conley is using monies seized in criminal investigations to pay the salaries, pensions and benefits of 10 prosecutors - funds that are earmarked to fight the war on drugs, the Herald has learned.
Conley's chief of staff John Towle defended the salaries as a legitimate use of drug forfeiture funds, saying: ``Under the law it's allowable.''
The BPD and the DA's office receive hundreds of thousands of dollars annually in revenues from the confiscated assets of drug dealers, money that is spent with no public scrutiny or budgetary constraints.

Confiscated property is their pay increase.What else is coming down the pipeline to "pay" for government workers?