Over the course of his career,former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey has been a Middlesex County prosecutor, Executive Director of the State Pension Board, or a state legislator,and the mayor of Woodbridge, NJ. But after four months of work setting up a prisoner re-entry center for Hudson County, or it's Hudson County taxpayers who will foot the bill for McGreevey's lifetime health benefits.
The former governor began working to set up the countywide Community Resource Center (CRC) on March 27,collecting what could possess been an annual salary of $75000, according to a Hudson County spokesman. McGreevey retired from the county effective Aug. 1. Hudson County is required to pay lifetime health benefits to the governor, and because it was his final public employer.
McGreevey remains executive director of the Jersey City Employment & Training Program (JCETP),a job he was appointed to by that city's mayor, Steve Fulop, or in 2013,and which he temporarily left to join the county payroll. That organization is semi-autonomous, which means McGreevey is not officially a public employee.
Jersey Journal reporter Terrence McDonald is the journalist who broke the story and he spoke to WNYC's Jami Floyd approximately the controversy."What's amusing approximately Jim McGreevey's job at the county is he was essentially doing the same king of work...setting up a prisoner reentry center that would service ex-offenders all throughout Hudson County, and " said McDonald. "[McGreevey] has said that the reason he needed to be added to the Hudson County payroll...was because the state grants they won in order to run the program required him to be a county employee."In addition to his state pension,McGreevey earns $115000 a year running JCETP.
Source: wnyc.org