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Would have to do some research, but AFAIK law enforcement pensions are calculated differently than standard fed pensions in FERS. Not sure if that applies to age requirements, and not sure how it would apply if he was re-hired into a non-LE position (e.g. the congressional hire scenario being thrown around)

03-17-2018 , 11:05 AM

#87828

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jalfrezi

I'm sure it's been covered here, but if Trump is unlikely to go quietly if he realises Mueller's investigation has something serious on him, what happens after the investigation is shut down?

awval says a constitutional crisis and breakdown of rule of law likely won't affect his tax cut

03-17-2018 , 11:06 AM

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Land O Lakes

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Trump will probably be taken out by a pr0n star. Seems like poetic justice.

03-17-2018 , 11:06 AM

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I don't know if it is true that his pension is worth 1.5m, but over 20 years of service that is roughly $75,000/year...I am guessing someone capable of rising to the top of the CIA could have done better financially if he pursued a career in the private sector.

03-17-2018 , 11:09 AM

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03-17-2018 , 11:09 AM

#87832

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good news is he's only 50 so he still can

03-17-2018 , 11:09 AM

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danspartan

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Thinking Bob is just listening to Trumps lawyers prattling in about negotiating interview limits. Expect he will just issue a subpoena and then let the court battle begin if Trump doesn’t cooperate. Hope he does it soon as it will be obvious obstruction if he is fired.

03-17-2018 , 11:12 AM

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It's an outrage that FBI dudes can apparently "retire" when they're 50, collect a pension, and go get another job at a private firm to double dip. Bad!

03-17-2018 , 11:16 AM

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epcfast

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It's an outrage that you can still post

03-17-2018 , 11:17 AM

#87836

microbet

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Quote:

Originally Posted by OmgGlutten!

Or could have done worse. I would put the expectation at worse. Regression to the mean. Luck/chance is way underrated.

03-17-2018 , 11:20 AM

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If LE has some special rule to retire at 50 don't blame the libruls.

03-17-2018 , 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by SenorKeeed

It's an outrage that FBI dudes can apparently "retire" when they're 50, collect a pension, and go get another job at a private firm to double dip. Bad!

FWIW I'm down with some sort of pension reduction for federal employees while they're employed in the private sector following retirement, but that is tangential to the issue at hand here, which is that a president essentially fired a civil servant for political reasons with the intent of denying him his pension

03-17-2018 , 11:25 AM

#87839

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

If LE has some special rule to retire at 50 don't blame the libruls.

just pointing out that it's totally ridiculous. Sucks for McCabe that he doesn't get to game the system like his buddies but let's not pretend that it isn't absurd for a 50 year old to get a $53k/year inflation-adjusted pension for life after 21 years of work. I mean jesus.

And he'll still get his pension when he actually reaches retirement age.

Quote:

Originally Posted by bware

sure.

03-17-2018 , 11:30 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by epcfast

It's an outrage that you can still post

He has pee-pee tapes of wookie.

03-17-2018 , 11:30 AM

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But really this makes me sad for Gomie and ASAC Schraeder from Breaking Bad as either one of them was basically working for half pay then got murdered by some ****ing Nazis. They both were over 50 and had their 20 in. RIP Gomie

03-17-2018 , 11:32 AM

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03-17-2018 , 11:34 AM

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https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/975023199946715137

03-17-2018 , 11:34 AM

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microbet

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Don't get me wrong, I might fire every last one of them if I had the chance.

03-17-2018 , 11:36 AM

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Bunch of ****sticks

03-17-2018 , 11:38 AM

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trump's personal criminal lawyer in statement to news outlets: I pray that this never goes to trial.

i guess prayer is all he's got left

03-17-2018 , 11:40 AM

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Some of the posting around McCabe has been straight up awful.

The guy had 35,000 employees and a budget of like $8.5b under him.

If anything he was radically under-compensated.

03-17-2018 , 11:45 AM

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Trump Lawyer Says Special Counsel Inquiry Should Be Ended

The remark represented an extraordinary shift in the public strategy by the Trump legal team. For months, Mr. Trump’s advisers have urged the president to avoid any criticism of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and his lawyers had done nothing publicly that could agitate Mr. Mueller’s team.

The Trump lawyer, John Dowd, made the statement to The Daily Beast a day after Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired the deputy F.B.I. director, Andrew G. McCabe, who was among the first officials at the bureau to scrutinize the possible links between Russia and the Trump team.

“I pray that Acting Attorney General Rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the F.B.I. Office of Professional Responsibility and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and bring an end to alleged Russia collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe’s boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt dossier,” Mr. Dowd said in his statement.

Mr. Dowd said that he was speaking on behalf of the president. But in a subsequent statement issued on Saturday morning by Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Mr. Dowd backtracked, saying that he had been “speaking for myself, not the president.”

...

The president has faced a series of revelations this past week about the investigation, and one person close to the White House said the president was livid over a report in The New York Times that Mr. Mueller had subpoenaed his corporate records, including those related to Russia.

03-17-2018 , 11:45 AM

#87849

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Are you guys all celebrating St. Patrick's Day early or something? The posting has gone beyond hot take territory and into the land of "Holy balls your ideas are bad and you should feel bad."

03-17-2018 , 11:51 AM

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bigt2k4

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Can he apply to some low level FBI job, get hired and then retire after a day or week or whatever and get 99.99% of his old pension + 0.01% of his low salary new job's pension?

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