New York City Planning staffer rakes in more than $300K thanks to 'double-dipping'

Crain's New York Business reports:

One of the architects of Mayor Bill de Blasio's housing plan is living well at the taxpayer's expense, a think-tank reported.

The right-leaning Empire Center highlighted Anita Laremont, the executive director of the Department of City Planning, as one of four civil servants raking in more than $300,000 this fiscal year thanks to special permission to receive both a public paycheck and public-pension payments. Waivers granted under Section 211 of New York's Retirement and Social Security Law are supposed to allow the state and local governments to attract and retain employees younger than 65 that have unequaled and irreplaceable knowledge and skills.

Drawing on public documents from the first half of the year, the Empire Center pegged Laremont's salary from the Department of City Planning at $204,251 and take-home pay from her Empire State Development pension at $114,742.

Traditional political scientists will tell you these people work for the public interest.