Attorney files federal lawsuit over pension crackdown
Quick ReadAlbert D'Agostino, 65, who collects an annual pension of $108,088, filed suit in U.S. District Court Thursday.
Photo credit: Newsday/Daniel Goodrich | Albert D'Agostino: The state comptroller's office retroactively gave him 21 years of credit in the state pension system - even though he had been paid as a private contractor all those years - enabling him to get a $108,088 annual pension and health benefits for life.
Just days after the state comptroller sent him a letter explaining why the office was going to revoke his six-figure public pension again, a Valley Stream attorney has fired back with a federal lawsuit charging his civil rights were violated.
Albert D'Agostino, who collects an annual pension of $108,088, filed suit in U.S. District Court Thursday. In it, he says Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli...
