2 Chicago cop-legislators changed law to benefit 2 people: themselves

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

They were a couple of Chicago cops, each serving in the Illinois Legislature, when they helped change state law to give themselves police pensions at taxpayer expense.

The amendment co-sponsored 16 years ago by now-retired state Rep. Edward “Eddie” Acevedo and current state Sen. Antonio “Tony” Munoz gave them — and also any future Chicago cops-state legislators — the ability to get credit toward their police pensions for every day they served in the Illinois Senate or House.

And Acevedo and Munoz took advantage of the change in Illinois law that they helped enact.

Without that, neither would have been eligible for a police pension at all. That’s because they took so many leaves of absence from their duties at the Chicago Police Department to work in Springfield that they didn’t have the minimum 10 years on the job needed to get a cop pension from the city of Chicago.

Now, the two clout-heavy Chicago Democrats have each used the special interest legislation they co-sponsored to boost their retirement pay, buying additional years of service toward their police pensions. That’s allowed each of them to be given credit toward their city pensions for hundreds of days that they spent in Springfield while on leave from the police department.

They also get to count those days toward their legislative pensions — cashing in twice.

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