University Gave No-Show Job to Legislator, U.S. Reports

The New York Times reports:

One of New Jersey’s most powerful legislators had a no-show job at the state’s medical and dental school that paid him $35,000 a year “to lobby himself,” according to a report by a federal monitor, an accusation that could lead to a possible criminal investigation on corruption charges.


The legislator, State Senator Wayne R. Bryant — a Democrat from Camden who is the chairman of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee — worked at the School of Osteopathic Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey from 2003 to 2006. During that time, the school’s financing from the Legislature rose to more than $4 million annually from $2.8 million.

Mr. Bryant, 58, has for years been unapologetic about the fact that he has held as many as four government jobs simultaneously — in addition, family members, including his wife, sister-in-law, two brothers and a son, who died this year, were on the public payroll at various times — but he resigned from the medical school this year after federal investigators began examining his role at the university.

No wonder some people are for big government, because they live off of extorting money from taxpayers.You see, you can't be a taxpayer if you are getting a salary from the taxpayers.No word yet from people who believe in "check and balances" on why they don't seem to work in government.