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Convicted vote fraudster Rocio Rivera finally loses her government job, 17 months later
Of course they let her resign rather than suffer the ignominity of being fired. But at long last Rocio Rivera has forfeited her government job.
A clerk at the Essex County Sheriff’s Office resigned her job this week more than a year after agreeing to forfeit the post as part of a guilty plea to voter fraud.
The employee, Rocio Rivera, “resigned her position with this department on Tuesday,” Sheriff’s Office spokesman Kevin Lynch confirmed today.
It took 17 months for Sheriff Armando Fontoura’s wheels of justice to catch up to one of his own employees. Because even though she was convicted of voter fraud, it was all in a good cause — re-electing one of Fontoura’s boss’s henchwomen to the NJ State Senate.
Tony R
October 12th, 2012
Probably had to wait for her to be fully vested in her retirement plan.
Maudie N Mandeville
October 12th, 2012
Rocio will begin receiving her $114,500 pension for THE REST OF HER LIFE. Estimations are that the state will pay her 3,435,000 over the course of her life plus health benefits projected at 3X her lifetime pension.
scr_north
October 13th, 2012
So where was Chris Christie during her 17 months earning pay and pension credits?